Autonomy Engineering Recruiting Manager

Nuro; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits

Job summary

Nuro is seeking a hands‑on Recruiting Manager to build and lead the team behind our Driver organization. You will partner with engineering leaders and a co‑CEO to shape role scopes, run critical searches personally, and coach a 4–5 person recruiting team to hire top ML, autonomy, and systems talent.

You will own quarterly hiring plans, manage talent pipelines, and drive data‑driven decisions to sustain a high talent bar across specialized engineering roles.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in technical recruiting, with at least 3 hiring ML, robotics, autonomy, or similarly specialized engineering talent.
• 2+ years managing recruiters, ideally while still carrying your own searches.
• Experience hiring Staff, Principal, and Director+ level engineers.
• Working understanding of the Autonomy or ML talent market and compensation in offers.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 4–5 recruiters and run critical searches personally.
• Partner with engineering leaders and the co‑CEO to define role scope and profile.
• Coach recruiters on sourcing depth, technical screening, and selling the mission.
• Calibrate with hiring managers on interview bar and speed, pushing back when needed.
• Build trusted reporting dashboards for pipeline health and conversion.

Skills

Recruiting leadership

Technical recruiting

Data-driven decisions

Stakeholder management

Job description

Who We Are

Nuro believes self-driving vehicles are the most immediate and profound opportunity for AI to drive positive change in the physical world. Safer streets, more time for what matters, and easier access to the world around us, that’s why we’re building a universal autonomy platform: self-driving for all roads and all rides.

Who We Are

Nuro believes self-driving vehicles are the most immediate and profound opportunity for AI to drive positive change in the physical world. Safer streets, more time for what matters, and easier access to the world around us, that’s why we’re building a universal autonomy platform: self-driving for all roads and all rides. Founded in 2016, Nuro is a physical AI company developing Level 4 autonomous driving technology for a wide range of vehicles, use cases, and markets. Powered by the Nuro Driver™, our universal autonomy platform enables the global mobility ecosystem to deploy autonomy at scale, from robotaxis and logistics fleets to personal vehicles. With years of real-world deployment experience and a flexible, partner-led business model, Nuro is working toward a future where millions of autonomous vehicles powered by our technology help make everyday life safer, easier, and more connected. Nuro has raised over $2B in capital from Uber, NVIDIA, Google, Softbank, Fidelity, T. Rowe Price, and other leading investors.

About The Role

Nuro Driver is the engineering organization that builds the foundational, end-to-end models powering our autonomous driving system, validates their safety, and makes sure they run efficiently onboard our vehicles. That spans Autonomy, Controls, Systems, and Localization, and the people we hire here define what our technology is capable of.

We are looking for a hands‑on recruiting manager to build the team behind that. You will lead 4‑5 recruiters and personally run the most important searches, from ML and autonomy to systems engineering and beyond. Expect to spend roughly 50% your time directly running critical searches and 50% building and managing the recruiting team. You will work side by side with engineering leaders and a deeply technical co‑CEO who all care deeply about talent density and treat recruiting as a core part of how we win. You will have real influence over who joins, a direct line to the people making those decisions, and the chance to build the recruiting function for one of the most exciting engineering organizations in autonomy.

What You’ll Own

• Hiring strategy and execution for Nuro Driver across ML, autonomy, systems engineering, controls, and localization
• Leadership and key‑hire searches, run personally from sourcing through close
• A team of 4‑5 recruiters, including hiring, coaching, workload, and performance
• Quarterly hiring plans tied to engineering priorities, with clear capacity, timelines, and tradeoffs
• Pipeline and funnel metrics, reviewed weekly with engineering leaders

What You’ll Do

• Partner directly with engineering directors, VPs, and the co‑CEO to define role scope, sharpen the profile, and decide where the real talent pool sits
• Map the market for niche skill sets (perception, planning, prediction, ML infrastructure, state estimation, sensor calibration, safety‑critical systems) and build target lists by company, lab, and team
• Run senior searches personally and close candidates who are choosing between multiple strong offers
• Coach recruiters on sourcing depth, technical screening, and selling the mission to people who are hard to impress
• Calibrate with hiring managers on bar, interview design, and decision speed, and push back when the process is losing candidates
• Build the reporting engineers actually trust: pipeline health, conversion by stage, time to offer, offer acceptance, source quality
• Work with Total Rewards on offer strategy and competing offers for high‑demand profiles

About You

• 7+ years in technical recruiting, with at least 3 hiring ML, robotics, autonomy, or similarly specialized engineering talent
• 2+ years managing recruiters, ideally while still carrying your own searches
• Experience hiring Staff, Principal, and Director + level engineers
• A working understanding of the Autonomy or ML talent market: who is moving, who is not, what key talent care about, and how compensation in offers is set
• The technical fluency to hold a credible conversation with a software engineer or research scientist, and to tell a strong candidate from a polished one
• A data‑first approach. You know your team’s funnel numbers, you can explain why they moved, and you act on them
• Strong judgment in competitive closes, including candidates holding offers from top startups and big tech
• Desire to build a true partnership with engineering leaders, including: advising on how to build the right hiring process, how to sell and pitch, and how to ensure we keep a high talent bar.

Bonus Points

• Experience at an AV, robotics, ML, or frontier AI company
• Experience tackling recruiting problems with outside of the box thinking and recommendations

Compensation

• At Nuro, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package. For this position, the reasonably expected base pay range is between $160,000 and $240,000 for the level at which this job has been scoped.
• Your base pay will depend on several factors, including your experience, qualifications, education, location, and skills. In the event that you are considered for a different level, a higher or lower pay range would apply.
• This position is also eligible for an annual performance bonus, equity, and a competitive benefits package.

EEO & Diversity

At Nuro, we celebrate differences and are committed to a diverse workplace that fosters inclusion and psychological safety for all employees.

Nuro is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and expressly prohibits any form of workplace discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics.