Senior Recruiter

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

Job summary

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

The role is hands-on, sourcing highly specialized technical talent in robotics, ML/RL, computer vision, simulation, and software, and partnering with company leadership on interview strategy and offers. You will own candidate conversations, develop talent maps, drive searches with creative reach, and work with the existing talent team to ensure top-priority searches move quickly.

Qualifications

• Significant experience recruiting highly technical talent, including robotics, embodied AI, or a closely related field.
• Demonstrated success sourcing difficult-to-find engineering and research candidates.
• Strong knowledge of the robotics talent ecosystem and sourcing beyond LinkedIn.
• Enough technical fluency to understand specialized candidate backgrounds and engage researchers and engineers.
• Experience in a fast-growing startup or high-ownership environment.
• Interest in broader People topics beyond recruiting.

Responsibilities

• Personally source and recruit highly specialized research and engineering talent focusing on robotics, ML/RL, CV, simulation and software.
• Develop targeted sourcing strategies and talent maps across robotics companies, labs, universities and communities.
• Build relationships with passive candidates and act as an early ambassador for Eka.
• Own candidate conversations and partner with leadership on interview strategy, offers and closing.
• Continuously improve recruiting workflows, processes and systems.

Skills

Robotics recruiting

Candidate sourcing

Technical communication

Startup experience

Job description

Eka Robotics

We 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