Full-Stack Hardware Recruiter - Robotics

Physical Intelligence; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Physical Intelligence is seeking a senior Hardware Recruiter to help build the team that designs and builds robots. You will own end-to-end searches across mechanical, electrical, firmware, and manufacturing roles in our SF presence and Fremont factory.

You will partner with co-founders and engineering leaders to set talent strategy, create rigorous interview loops, and close exceptional candidates in a fast-moving hardware environment.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with a focus on hardware roles.
• Experience hiring hardware teams that ship physical products.
• Strong sourcing network you can activate from day one.
• Ability to map roles to concrete hardware talent markets.

Responsibilities

• Own high-impact searches across hardware research and engineering.
• Collaborate with founders and tech leaders to define talent strategy.
• Design interview processes with hands-on assessment loops.
• Build and scale a hardware recruiting function for volume hiring.

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

Hardware fluency

Networking

Resilience

Urgency

Analytical rigor

Curiosity about robots

Tools

AI-powered recruiting tools

Automation workflows

Job description

Physical Intelligence is seeking a senior Hardware Recruiter to help build the team that designs and builds robots. You will own end-to-end searches across mechanical, electrical, firmware, and manufacturing roles in our SF presence and Fremont factory.

You will partner with co-founders and engineering leaders to set talent strategy, create rigorous interview loops, and close exceptional candidates in a fast-moving hardware environment.