Senior Recruiter

The role

You will personally source and recruit highly specialized research and engineering talent in robotics, ML/RL, computer vision, simulation, and software. You will work with company leadership on recruiting, interview strategy, and broader People initiatives.

What you will do

• Personally source and recruit highly specialized research and engineering talent.
• Develop targeted sourcing strategies and talent maps.
• Build relationships with passive candidates.
• Own candidate conversations and partner with leadership on interview strategy, offers, and closing.
• Continuously improve recruiting workflows, processes, and systems.
• Work with the existing talent team and recruiting partners.
• Partner with leadership on headcount planning, compensation, performance management, manager development, and company expansion strategy.

Required qualifications

• Significant experience recruiting highly technical talent, including direct experience recruiting in robotics, embodied AI, physical AI, or a closely related field.
• Demonstrated success personally sourcing difficult-to-find engineering and research candidates.
• Strong knowledge of the robotics talent ecosystem and experience sourcing beyond LinkedIn.
• Technical fluency to understand specialized candidate backgrounds and engage with researchers and engineers.
• Strong candidate-facing communication skills.
• Experience in a fast-growing startup or similarly high-ownership environment.
• Experience or demonstrated interest in broader People topics beyond recruiting.

Nice to have

• Experience recruiting through communities and conferences (e.g., CoRL, ICRA, IROS, OpenReview, arXiv, etc.)
• Experience with compensation, organizational planning, performance management
• Experience supporting a company through rapid growth or expansion into new markets

About the company

EKA ROBOTICS is looking to build the team behind its next stage of growth.