Senior Tech Talent Acquisition Partner

Machina Labs; West Chatsworth (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

PTO

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Job summary

Machina Labs is seeking a senior Talent recruiter to own full-cycle recruiting for highly technical roles including software engineering, AI/ML, data, and infrastructure. You will partner with engineering leadership to translate needs into profiles and search strategies while calibrating profiles and building proactive pipelines.

You will lead disciplined processes, leverage market data to recalibrate when needed, and maintain ATS hygiene to drive scalable, high-quality hiring outcomes.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with significant depth recruiting software and other highly technical talent.
• At least 4 years of in-house recruiting experience, ideally within a high-growth startup or similarly fast-moving technical environment.
• Demonstrated success recruiting senior software engineers and specialized talent across areas such as AI/ML, data, infrastructure, platform, or robotics.
• Strong technical fluency and the ability to understand nuanced engineering profiles and adjacent talent markets.
• Excellent sourcing and market-mapping skills, with a track record of engaging and closing passive candidates.
• Strong hiring-manager partnership skills. You can bring structure to an ambiguous search, push back constructively, and use market evidence to drive better decisions.
• Experience running disciplined recruiting processes, including profile calibration, structured interviewing, debriefs, pipeline management, and ATS hygiene.
• Data-minded and able to use funnel performance, sourcing effectiveness, and market feedback to inform recruiting strategy.

Responsibilities

• Own full-cycle recruiting for software engineering, AI/ML, data, infrastructure, and other highly technical roles, from senior IC through leadership levels.
• Partner closely with engineering leaders to translate business and technical needs into clear, realistic candidate profiles and search strategies.
• Lead profile calibration, including defining must-haves, tradeoffs, target talent pools, and what success looks like before a search launches.
• Build thoughtful market maps and proactive pipelines for hard-to-find technical talent rather than relying solely on inbound applicants.
• Use market data and candidate feedback to help hiring managers recalibrate when the market does not support the initial profile.
• Drive a consistent, high-quality recruiting process, including recruiter screens, interview plans, scorecards, debriefs, pipeline management, and candidate communication.
• Maintain strong operating discipline and data quality within our ATS, using funnel data and market insight to identify where searches are working or getting stuck.
• Contribute to improving how we recruit as we scale, including processes, tools, reporting, talent pipelines, and hiring-manager practices.

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

In-house recruiting

Tech recruiting

Sourcing & market mapping

Stakeholder partnership

Job description

Machina Labs is seeking a senior Talent recruiter to own full-cycle recruiting for highly technical roles including software engineering, AI/ML, data, and infrastructure. You will partner with engineering leadership to translate needs into profiles and search strategies while calibrating profiles and building proactive pipelines.

You will lead disciplined processes, leverage market data to recalibrate when needed, and maintain ATS hygiene to drive scalable, high-quality hiring outcomes.