Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Eka Robotics is hiring a Senior Recruiter to build its team by sourcing and recruiting specialized technical talent across robotics, machine learning, computer vision, simulation, and software. The role partners with company leadership on candidate evaluation, offers, and closing, while also contributing to broader People initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Personally source and recruit highly specialized research and engineering talent, with an initial focus on robotics, ML/RL, computer vision, simulation, and software
- Develop targeted sourcing strategies and talent maps across robotics companies, research organizations, university labs, and technical communities
- Build relationships with passive candidates and serve as a compelling early ambassador for Eka
- Own candidate conversations and partner with leadership on interview strategy, offers, closing, and follow-up
- Continuously improve our recruiting workflows, processes, and systems
- Work with our existing talent team and recruiting partners to ensure our highest-priority searches move quickly
- Partner with leadership on broader People initiatives such as headcount planning, compensation, performance management, manager development, and strategy for company expansion
Skills
- 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, including through technical communities, research publications, conferences, university labs, and targeted market mapping
- Enough technical fluency to understand specialized candidate backgrounds and engage credibly with researchers and engineers
- Strong candidate-facing communication skills and the ability to build excitement and trust throughout a recruiting process
- Experience in a fast-growing startup or similarly high-ownership environment
- Experience or demonstrated interest in broader People topics beyond recruiting
- 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
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