Recruiter, Hardware

The role

You will own end-to-end hardware recruiting searches for research and engineering roles. You will partner with hardware leaders to design roles, define talent strategy, and build teams across mechanical, electrical, firmware, controls, manufacturing, NPI, test, supply chain, and technician roles.

What you will do

• Own every search end to end from mapping to closing
• Identify and contact hardware engineers, manufacturing, and supply chain talent
• Build a funnel for technicians and factory talent
• Design interview processes including prototyping exercises and hands-on trials
• Partner with hardware leaders to manage hiring needs
• Design bespoke closing strategies
• Share pipelines, tools, and referrals with the recruiting team
• Treat every candidate with care and respect

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of full-cycle recruiting
• Experience hiring hardware roles at companies that ship physical products
• A network of contacts for open roles
• Real hardware fluency
• Range across both design engineering and the factory and fleet
• Ability to explain a high bar for hiring
• Resilience
• Urgency
• Analytical rigor

Nice to have

• Built a hardware recruiting function from scratch or scaled one through a production ramp
• Hired technicians or factory teams at volume, including hands-on trials
• Run senior hardware leadership searches (Director and above)
• Recruited at robotics, AV, drone, aerospace or consumer electronics companies
• Familiarity with AI-powered recruiting tools and automation workflows

About the company

Physical Intelligence is developing foundation models and learning algorithms to power robots and physically-actuated devices. The company is a group of engineers, scientists, roboticists, and company builders.