Technical Recruiter

About the Role

We're looking for a Technical Recruiter to help build our growing FAIRI (FieldAI Research Institute) team in Boston. This role goes beyond traditional full-cycle recruiting. You'll partner closely with engineering and research leaders to understand long-term hiring priorities, develop proactive talent strategies, and identify exceptional technical talent before they enter the market.

You'll recruit for some of our most impactful technical roles while serving as a key contributor to talent strategy, market insights, candidate assessment, and hiring decisions. If you enjoy building relationships with world-class researchers and engineers, navigating complex searches, and solving difficult hiring challenges, we'd love to meet you.

Approximately 10-15% of your time will support People Operations through onboarding, recruiting operations, process improvements, and initiatives that create an exceptional employee experience.

This is a fixed-term position with an immediate business need. We are looking for someone who can start immediately. This role may evolve into a full-time role in the future depending on business need.

What You'll Do

Technical Recruiting

• Own full-cycle recruiting from kickoff through offer acceptance.
• Partner with engineering and research leaders to define hiring strategies, candidate profiles, and interview plans.
• Recruit for specialized technical roles, including: Research Scientists, Research Engineers, Software Engineers, Engineering Managers, Simulation Engineers, Hardware Engineers, and Internship Programs
• Build long-term pipelines of exceptional talent through sourcing, networking, technical communities, research publications, conferences, GitHub, and LinkedIn Recruiter.
• Develop relationships with passive candidates and engage top talent long before they're actively looking.
• Guide candidates through the interview process while delivering an exceptional candidate experience.
• Lead offer negotiations and help close highly competitive technical talent.

Strategic Talent Partnership

• Serve as a trusted recruiting partner to engineering and research leadership.
• Provide market insights on talent trends, compensation, competitor hiring, and candidate availability.
• Help hiring teams make informed decisions through talent mapping, market intelligence, and thoughtful candidate assessment.
• Continuously improve recruiting processes while maintaining a high hiring bar and an efficient hiring experience.
• Maintain accurate ATS data, recruiting metrics, and hiring reports.

People Operations Support (10–15%)

• Coordinate onboarding and ensure a seamless new hire experience.
• Partner with People Operations on recruiting operations, onboarding logistics, documentation, and process improvements.
• Support employer branding, recruiting events, university recruiting, employee referrals, and additional HR initiatives.

What You Have

• 4–7 years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience.
• Experience hiring highly technical AI/ML researchers, research engineers, software engineers, robotics engineers, hardware engineers, and similarly specialized technical talent.
• Experience hiring PhD-level researchers, Research Scientists, or senior technical leadership.
• Experience recruiting within startups, high-growth technology companies, technical recruiting agencies, executive search firms, or a combination of these environments.
• Strong sourcing skills using LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, Boolean Search, Google X-Ray, research publications, conference attendee lists, and other technical sourcing tools.
• Demonstrated success engaging passive candidates and building relationships with highly specialized technical talent.
• Experience partnering closely with senior technical leaders and managing multiple high-priority searches simultaneously.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, negotiation, and organizational skills.
• Experience using ATS platforms such as Lever, Greenhouse, Ashby, or Workday.
• Comfort working independently in a fast-paced, evolving startup environment.

The Extras That Set You Apart

• Experience recruiting for robotics, embodied AI, autonomous systems, machine learning, or AI research organizations.
• Familiarity with AI research communities, technical publications, conferences, and open-source ecosystems.
• Experience using market intelligence and competitive talent insights to influence recruiting strategy.
• Experience supporting onboarding or broader People Operations initiatives.

We Encourage You to Apply If You

• Enjoy building relationships with exceptional researchers and engineers.
• Love solving challenging technical hiring problems that require creativity and persistence.
• Take pride in identifying talent before the rest of the market.
• Thrive in a high-growth startup where priorities evolve quickly.
• Come from a technical recruiting agency and want to bring that pace and sourcing expertise in-house.
• Enjoy partnering with Engineering, Research, and People Operations to build exceptional teams.