Robotics & AI Research Recruiter

Foundry Robotics; United States; On-site; USD 170,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Comprehensive health, dental andVision

Generous PTO

In-person role in Emeryville

Job summary

Foundry Robotics is seeking a senior recruiter to lead end-to-end hiring for robotics and AI/ML research. You will source from literature, build relationships with universities, and deploy AI tooling to scale outreach while maintaining humanized interactions.

The role demands deep knowledge of labs, researchers, and conferences, plus a proven ability to map competencies and assess research quality beyond surface results.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of technical recruiting, including real time hiring research scientists or research engineers in robotics, AI/ML, autonomy, or an adjacent field.
• You read the papers. You can explain what a candidate's work actually contributed, and a researcher would not wince at your summary.
• You know the landscape — the labs, the advisors, the conferences, and how people move between them.
• You have built faculty and lab relationships that produced hires, not just campus visits.
• You are genuinely AI-efficient. You have built or run tooling that multiplied your own sourcing output, and you can walk us through your stack.
• You are deeply interested in the technology itself. If what you want is a clean req and a target close date, this is the wrong seat.
• You have built a competency map, not just filled one in. You can show us one.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end hiring for robotics and AI/ML research: manipulation, perception, controls, learning, and the ML infrastructure around them — research scientists and research engineers alike.
• Source from the literature. arXiv, CoRL, RSS, ICRA, NeurIPS, ICML and CVPR author lists, acknowledgements, and citation graphs are your candidate database — alongside GitHub, not instead of it.
• Build real relationships with university labs and faculty. Advisors decide where their students land more often than recruiters do.
• Use AI tooling to 10x your own reach: enrichment, paper-to-profile matching, and personalized outreach at volume that still reads like a human who read the work. We will fund the tools; you have to actually run them.
• Refuse to open a req without a competency map. Decompose each role into discrete, assessable skills with the hiring manager, then assign each interviewer exactly one of them.
• Build and run interviewer training and calibration for research loops — including how to assess research taste, not just implementation skill.
• Own talent competitor analysis against frontier labs, robotics startups, and AV companies, and know honestly why a researcher would choose us over a lab with a bigger compute budget.

Skills

Technical recruiting

Hiring research scientists

AI/ML recruitment

University/faculty relations

Tools

GitHub

AI tooling

Job description

Foundry Robotics is seeking a senior recruiter to lead end-to-end hiring for robotics and AI/ML research. You will source from literature, build relationships with universities, and deploy AI tooling to scale outreach while maintaining humanized interactions.

The role demands deep knowledge of labs, researchers, and conferences, plus a proven ability to map competencies and assess research quality beyond surface results.