Foundry Robotics

Staff Technical Recruiter

Emeryville, CA. Posted a month ago

The role

You will own end-to-end hiring for robotics and AI/ML research. This involves sourcing candidates from literature, building university lab relationships, and using AI tooling to reach researchers.

What you will do

  • Own end-to-end hiring for robotics and AI/ML research
  • Source from the literature including arXiv, CoRL, RSS, ICRA, NeurIPS, ICML and CVPR
  • Build real relationships with university labs and faculty
  • Use AI tooling for enrichment, paper-to-profile matching, and personalized outreach
  • Decompose roles into discrete, assessable skills with hiring managers
  • Build and run interviewer training and calibration for research loops
  • Own talent competitor analysis against frontier labs, robotics startups, and AV companies

Required qualifications

  • 8+ years of technical recruiting, including real time hiring research scientists or research engineers in robotics, AI/ML, autonomy, or an adjacent field
  • Ability to explain what a candidate's work actually contributed
  • Knowledge of the landscape including labs, advisors, conferences, and how people move between them
  • Experience building faculty and lab relationships that produced hires
  • Experience building or running tooling that multiplied sourcing output
  • Deep interest in the technology itself
  • Ability to build a competency map

Nice to have

  • A technical background — a degree, a research stint, or self-taught depth you can defend
  • Hiring into ITAR-controlled or cleared programs, and familiarity with the constraints that come with them
  • Recruiting where research has to survive contact with production

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
  • Generous PTO
  • Equity

About the company

Foundry Robotics is building an AI-native robotics manufacturing company focused on deploying advanced assembly and production capability for leading robotics companies and national-security-critical hardware. Their mission is to rebuild the American manufacturing industry as an AI-first, assembly-focused, dual-use contract manufacturer.