Staff Technical Recruiter

Skills

About the Role

You will lead end-to-end hiring for robotics and AI/ML research roles. You will research technical literature, build relationships with university labs and faculty, use sourcing tools effectively, develop competency-based interview processes, train interviewers, and analyze the talent market.

Requirements

• 8+ years of technical recruiting experience
• Experience hiring research scientists or research engineers in robotics, AI/ML, autonomy, or an adjacent field
• Ability to understand and explain candidates' research contributions
• Knowledge of relevant labs, advisors, conferences, and talent movements
• Experience building faculty and lab relationships that resulted in hires
• Experience building or running tools that improve sourcing output
• Experience creating competency maps

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end hiring for robotics and AI/ML research roles
• Source candidates through research literature, conferences, citation graphs, and GitHub
• Build relationships with university labs and faculty
• Use AI tooling for enrichment, paper-to-profile matching, and personalized outreach
• Create competency maps with hiring managers and assign interviewers to assess specific skills
• Build and run interviewer training and calibration for research interviews
• Conduct talent competitor analysis across frontier labs, robotics startups, and AV companies

Benefits

• Equity compensation
• Comprehensive health coverage
• Dental coverage
• Vision coverage
• Generous PTO

Hiring Process

Each interviewer assesses one skill and reports back; the hiring manager makes the final decision.