Senior Remote Contract Tech Recruiter - Robotics & AI

Eka; United States; Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Eka Robotics is seeking a Senior Contract Technical Recruiter/Sourcer with deep domain expertise in Robotics, Reinforcement Learning, and Physical AI. Your primary focus (90%+) will be deep-dive passive sourcing for world-class research and robotics engineering talent.

You will partner closely with engineering leadership to map elite academic labs, mine top AI conferences, and engage non-obvious candidates building the future of physical intelligence.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of technical sourcing experience, with at least 1+ year specifically targeting niche Robotics, ML/RL, or Embodied AI talent.
• Academic & Literature Sourcing: navigate arXiv, OpenReview, CoRL, ICRA, IROS, CVPR, RSS, NeurIPS to identify publication talent.
• University lab mapping: experience mapping top university research groups (MIT CSAIL, Stanford RAIL, UC Berkeley BAIR, CMU Robotics Institute).
• Beyond-LinkedIn toolkit: mastery of alternative candidate channels (GitHub, Semantic Scholar, X/Twitter, specialized Discord/Slack communities).
• Technical & Domain Fluency: ability to converse in physical AI concepts and translate requirements into candidate pools.

Responsibilities

• Passive Talent Acquisition: high-touch outreach to passive PhD researchers and robotics engineers.
• Talent & Lab Mapping: map university labs, industry labs, competitor teams for structured pipelines.
• Full-Stack Sourcing Execution: own top-of-funnel generation for complex roles via specialized platforms, repositories, and communities beyond LinkedIn.
• Recruiter Support & Coverage: provide coverage for full-cycle coordination during internal PTO.
• RecOps Projects: assist with pipeline analytics and workflow optimizations.

Skills

Passive sourcing

Lab mapping

Full-stack sourcing

Recruiting coordination

Industry networking

Tools

GitHub

Semantic Scholar

Discord

Slack

Kubernetes

SLURM

Job description

Eka Robotics is seeking a Senior Contract Technical Recruiter/Sourcer with deep domain expertise in Robotics, Reinforcement Learning, and Physical AI. Your primary focus (90%+) will be deep-dive passive sourcing for world-class research and robotics engineering talent.

You will partner closely with engineering leadership to map elite academic labs, mine top AI conferences, and engage non-obvious candidates building the future of physical intelligence.