Foundry Robotics
Staff Technical Recruiter
$170K–$205K
Emeryville, CA · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 18, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of technical recruiting; includes hiring research scientists or research engineers in robotics, AI/ML, autonomy, or an adjacent field.
About the job
Owns end-to-end recruiting for robotics and AI/ML research talent, using research-literature sourcing, lab relationships, AI tooling, and structured assessment to build hiring pipelines and processes.
What you'll do
- Recruit research scientists and engineers across robotics and AI/ML, from sourcing through hiring.
- Build candidate pipelines from research papers, conferences, GitHub, and university labs; develop faculty relationships and competitor analysis.
- Create competency maps and run interviewer training and calibration for research hiring loops.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of technical recruiting, including hiring research scientists or research engineers in robotics, AI/ML, autonomy, or an adjacent field.
- Ability to explain candidates’ research contributions accurately and knowledge of relevant labs, advisors, conferences, and career movement.
- Track record building faculty and lab relationships that produced hires.
- Experience building or running AI-enabled sourcing tools and creating competency maps.
Nice to have
- Technical background through a degree, research stint, or defensible self-taught expertise.
- Experience hiring into ITAR-controlled or cleared programs, or recruiting where research must translate to production.
Pay
$170,000—$205,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
AI tooling, arXiv, CoRL, RSS, ICRA, NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR
AI focus
Use AI tooling for candidate enrichment, paper-to-profile matching, and personalized outreach at scale; recruit AI/ML research talent.
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