Contract Tech Sourcing Lead for Robotics & AI

Overland AI; United States; Remote; USD 69,000 - 96,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Best-in-class healthcare, dental and…

Flexible PTO

401k with company match

Parental leave

9-month contract-to-hire

Job summary

Overland AI is seeking a high-ownership Contract Technical Recruiter to scale our technical teams during a growth phase. You will own sourcing for software, autonomy, perception, and robotics roles, while partnering with internal recruiters and hiring managers to translate needs into effective strategies.

The role supports remote work or Seattle, WA, with a 9-month contract-to-hire path and a competitive USD hourly rate.

Qualifications

• 3 to 5 years of sourcing experience for technical roles, ideally in robotics, autonomy, defense, or related hardware/software industries.
• Strong Boolean search skills and hands-on experience with sourcing tools (LinkedIn Recruiter, SeekOut, HireEZ, ClearanceJobs, GitHub, or similar).
• Experience building candidate pipelines for hard-to-fill engineering roles, not just responding to inbound applicants.

Responsibilities

• Own sourcing for engineering and technical roles across the company, including software, autonomy, perception, and robotics.
• Map the talent landscape for our core disciplines. Know which companies, teams, programs, and geographies have the people we need, and keep that knowledge current.
• Identify and engage passive candidates through LinkedIn Recruiter, professional communities, referral networks, and creative outreach channels.
• Build and maintain long-term candidate relationships so we have warm pipelines ready when roles open, not cold outreach every time.
• Partner with recruiters and hiring managers to translate hiring needs into sourcing strategies.
• Develop market intelligence: compensation benchmarks, talent availability, competitor hiring activity, and emerging talent pools that inform our broader recruiting strategy.
• Write outreach that sounds like a real person who understands what candidates actually work on, not a templated InMail.
• Track sourcing metrics (response rates, passthrough rates, source of hire) and use data to refine your approach over time.

Skills

Tech recruiting

Sourcing

Boolean search

Candidate experience

Data-driven recruiting

Tools

LinkedIn Recruiter

SeekOut

HireEZ

ClearanceJobs

GitHub

Ashby

Greenhouse

Job description

Overland AI is seeking a high-ownership Contract Technical Recruiter to scale our technical teams during a growth phase. You will own sourcing for software, autonomy, perception, and robotics roles, while partnering with internal recruiters and hiring managers to translate needs into effective strategies.

The role supports remote work or Seattle, WA, with a 9-month contract-to-hire path and a competitive USD hourly rate.