Senior Recruiter

Eka Robotics; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Eka Robotics in Cambridge, MA is seeking a Sr. Recruiter to help build the team behind Eka’s next growth phase.

This hands-on role requires personally sourcing candidates, developing talent maps, and driving searches forward in robotics, ML/RL, computer vision, simulation, and software. You will work with company leadership to identify exceptional people, expand Eka’s orbit, close candidates, and shape headcount planning and compensation.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in recruiting highly technical talent, including robotics/AI.
• Strong sourcing of engineering and research candidates.
• Ability to engage credibly with researchers and engineers.

Responsibilities

• Personally source and recruit highly specialized research and engineering talent in robotics, ML/RL, CV, and software.
• Develop sourcing strategies and talent maps across robotics companies, labs, and universities.
• Own candidate conversations and partner on interview strategy, offers, closing, and follow-up.
• Continuously improve recruiting workflows and work with leadership and teams to move priority searches quickly.

Skills

Technical recruiting

Sourcing

Robotics talent ecosystem

Candidate communication

Startup experience

Job description

Eka RoboticsWe are looking for a Sr. Recruiter to help us build the team behind Eka’s next stage of growth.

Eka RoboticsWe are looking for a Sr. Recruiter to help us build the team behind Eka’s next stage of growth.

Your primary focus will be recruiting exceptional technical talent across robotics, reinforcement learning, computer vision, simulation, and software. You will work directly with our company leadership to identify exceptional people, develop creative ways to reach them, bring them into Eka’s orbit, and ultimately help close them.

This is a hands-on role. You will personally source candidates, develop talent maps, run candidate conversations, and drive searches forward — not simply build a recruiting process for others to execute.

The ideal candidate started as a hands-on technical sourcer or recruiter, developed deep expertise recruiting robotics talent, and expanded into broader People responsibilities at a fast growing-startup.

Role Overview

• Personally source and recruit highly specialized research and engineering talent, with an initial focus on robotics, ML/RL, computer vision, simulation, and software.
• Develop targeted sourcing strategies and talent maps across robotics companies, research organizations, university labs, and technical communities.
• Build relationships with passive candidates and serve as a compelling early ambassador for Eka.
• Own candidate conversations and partner with leadership on interview strategy, offers, closing, and follow-up.
• Continuously improve our recruiting workflows, processes, and systems.
• Work with our existing talent team and recruiting partners to ensure our highest-priority searches move quickly.
• Partner with leadership on broader People initiatives such as headcount planning, compensation, performance management, manager development, and strategy for company expansion.

Minimum Qualifications

• Significant experience recruiting highly technical talent, including direct experience recruiting in robotics, embodied AI, physical AI, or a closely related field.
• Demonstrated success personally sourcing difficult-to-find engineering and research candidates.
• Strong knowledge of the robotics talent ecosystem and experience sourcing beyond LinkedIn, including through technical communities, research publications, conferences, university labs, and targeted market mapping.
• Enough technical fluency to understand specialized candidate backgrounds and engage credibly with researchers and engineers.
• Strong candidate-facing communication skills and the ability to build excitement and trust throughout a recruiting process.
• Experience in a fast-growing startup or similarly high-ownership environment.
• Experience or demonstrated interest in broader People topics beyond recruiting.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience recruiting through communities and conferences (e.g., CoRL, ICRA, IROS, OpenReview, arXiv, etc.)
• Experience with compensation, organizational planning, performance management
• Experience supporting a company through rapid growth or expansion into new markets