Senior Hardware Recruiting Lead for AI Manufacturing

Socket.dev; Emeryville (CA); On-site; USD 145,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Foundry Robotics in Emeryville, CA seeks a senior recruiter to own end-to-end hiring for mechanical, manufacturing, process, test, and quality engineering. You will decompose roles into measurable skills, train interviewers, and manage staffing agency partnerships to ensure quality hires.

This role requires on-site presence on the shop floor and strong stakeholder management. You will partner with leadership to shape competency maps, push back when the bar should not be lowered under deadline

Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical recruiting, including real time hiring mechanical, manufacturing, or quality engineers in a hardware environment.
• You can hold a real conversation about tolerance stack-ups, DFM, GD&T, EVT vs PVT build—and you know when to stop pretending and ask.
• You have managed a staffing agency relationship and improved it, including the conversation where you tell them the quality is not good enough.
• Comfortable on a shop floor in steel toes and safety glasses.
• You have built a competency map, not just filled one in, and you have trained non-recruiters to interview and made it stick.
• You are AI-efficient and use tooling to multiply your own sourcing output rather than grinding through lists by hand.
• You will tell a leader under deadline pressure that this is a no-hire, and hold it.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end hiring for mechanical, manufacturing, process, test, and quality engineering.
• Refuse to open a req without a competency map. Decompose each role into assessable skills with the hiring manager.
• Build and run interviewer training and calibration for manufacturing and mechanical loops.
• Own talent competitor analysis across contract manufacturers, hardware startups, aerospace, and automotive.
• Own the staffing agency relationship for hourly contract technicians: selection, rate negotiation, SLAs, scorecards, and quality standards.

Skills

Technical recruiting

Agency management

Stakeholder management

Hardware industry knowledge

Sourcing efficiency

Job description

Foundry Robotics in Emeryville, CA seeks a senior recruiter to own end-to-end hiring for mechanical, manufacturing, process, test, and quality engineering. You will decompose roles into measurable skills, train interviewers, and manage staffing agency partnerships to ensure quality hires.

This role requires on-site presence on the shop floor and strong stakeholder management. You will partner with leadership to shape competency maps, push back when the bar should not be lowered under deadline