Technical Recruiter (People Operations Support)

Laminar, Inc.; Somerville (MA); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

401k with employer matching

Equity

Bonus opportunities

Job summary

Laminar, Inc. is seeking a Technical Recruiter (People Operations Support) to grow our team as we scale in the industrial AI space.

You will own full-cycle recruiting across engineering, data science, deployments, and business roles, crafting creative sourcing strategies and delivering an exceptional candidate experience. As part of People Operations, you’ll support onboarding and people initiatives, help implement a new HRIS, and partner with leaders to strengthen our culture and employer brand

Qualifications

• 4+ years of recruiting experience, including highly technical roles.
• Experience hiring ML Engineers, Embedded Software, DevOps, Applications Engineers, Reliability Engineers and other technical roles.
• Proven ability to manage multiple searches in a fast-moving environment.
• Strong communication, organization, and relationship-building skills.
• Passion for sustainability and technology and helping teams thrive.
• Experience building and maintaining a positive, collaborative company culture.
• Strategic thinker using data to guide decisions.
• HR certification is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end recruiting across technical (engineering, data science, and deployments), customer support, and business roles.
• Build and manage strong candidate pipelines from first contact to offer.
• Partner with team managers to forecast hiring needs and refine recruiting processes.
• Represent Laminar at recruiting fairs, university events, and industry conferences.
• Manage onboarding and support people operations projects as we scale.
• Collaborate with the Head of Operations to implement and optimize a new HRIS system and support HR activities.
• Strengthen Laminar’s employer brand and reflect our mission and values.

Skills

Recruiting

Technical recruitment

ATS

HRIS

Communication

Relationship building

Education

HR certification (SHRM-CP/PHR) is a plus

Tools

ATS

HRIS

Job description

Technical Recruiter (People Operations Support)

Machines learned to understand language. We’re teaching them to understand matter.

Forty percent of global manufacturing happens through physical and chemical processes inside pipes, tanks, and reactors. Despite decades of industrial automation, much of what happens inside them remains remarkably invisible. Manufacturing is the most ubiquitous and foundational sector in global economy, yet the way factories are fundamentally run have used the same control philosophies, manual operations, and legacy software for the past 60 years.

Laminar deploys state-of-the-art patented sensors and edge hardware directly into live production environments, generating data that didn’t previously exist to build foundation models deployed in factory floors that understand chemistry, composition, quality, and material state in real time. We use that understanding to run autonomy and rethink how things are made.

The last generation of industrial automation taught machines to execute instructions reliably. The next will teach them to understand the processes they control and run autonomously, adaptively, and agentically: higher quality, safety, more efficiently, sustainably, and productively.

That future is already taking shape. Today, Laminar works with 7 of the world’s 10 largest food and beverage manufacturers and operates across hundreds of factories globally across six continents. Our systems have materially reduced waste, cut manufacturing downtime, saved water, chemicals, energy, and helped prevent safety and quality failures. Our technology has gained international recognition, from being selected as a 2026 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, Gold 2026 Edison Award, Unilever Startup of the Year, to Innovator Awards by both Coca-Cola and AB InBev, and more.

We are backed by tier-one investors in physical AI to make intelligent, self-improving production the new standard for industry.

Join us to build what makes matter intelligible, and the intelligible controllable.

As Laminar continues to scale, we’re looking for a Technical Recruiter (People Operations Support) to help grow our team and build the foundation for our next stage of growth. At Laminar (formerly H2Ok Innovations), we’re redefining factory operations through advanced automation, data intelligence, and sustainability. As we expand, you’ll play a key role in finding, attracting, and onboarding the talent that will shape the future of manufacturing. You’ll lead full-cycle recruiting across technical and business functions, craft creative sourcing strategies, and ensure every candidate has an exceptional experience. You’ll also support onboarding and people operations initiatives, strengthening our culture and systems as we scale. The ideal candidate has a track record of building high-performing teams, fostering vibrant company culture, and driving strategic people initiatives. This full-time position reports to the Head of Operations and is ideal for someone with at least four years of recruiting experience who shares our passion for sustainability and innovation.

What You Will Do

• Own end-to-end recruiting across technical (engineering, data science, and deployments,) customer support, and business roles
• Build and manage strong candidate pipelines from first contact to offer
• Partner with team managers to forecast hiring needs and refine recruiting processes
• Represent Laminar at recruiting fairs, university events, and industry conferences
• Manage onboarding and support people operations projects as we scale
• Collaborate with the Head of Operations to implement and optimize a new HRIS system and support overall HR activities, including organizing team-building activities and culture-driven initiatives
• Strengthen Laminar’s employer brand and ensure it reflects our mission and values

About You

• 4+ years of recruiting experience, including highly technical roles, such as ML Engineers, Embedded Software, DevOps, Applications Engineers, Reliability Engineers, Front end, and more.
• Demonstrated success in scaling teams and supporting organizational growth, particularly, in growing startups and/or tech
• Proven ability to manage multiple searches in a fast-moving environment
• Strong communication, organization, and relationship-building skills
• Passion for sustainability, technology, and helping teams thrive
• Experience building and maintaining a positive, collaborative company culture
• Strategic thinker who uses data and insight to guide decisions
• Skilled in ATS, HRIS systems, and related tools
• High level of integrity and confidentiality in handling sensitive information
• HR certification (e.g., SHRM-CP, PHR) is a plus
• Direct impact on product and culture.
• Comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Disability, Transportation benefit, Health and Wellness benefit, and more.
• 401k plan with employer matching
• Equity
• Competitive salary and bonus opportunities.
• Dynamic and inclusive work environment.
• Opportunities for growth and professional development.
• Access to Greentown Labs' extensive network of cleantech startups.

There are many easier places to work on AI. Laminar is for people who want the hardest version of their discipline. Models here must survive contact with physics. Hardware must survive years of continuous industrial operation. Software must integrate with machinery built decades ago. Everything we build ultimately has to work on a factory floor.

We believe exceptional people should be given exceptional amounts of ownership. At Laminar, you will have the context to form your own view, the permission to challenge ours, and the resources to pursue the right answers, whatever technical or organizational boundaries stand in the way. There are few layers between identifying something important and changing it.

We’re fortunate to work with a small polymathic team of hardware and software engineers, chemists, AI researchers, factory operators, and go-to-market wizards who are unusually capable, curious, rigorous, ambitious, and low-ego. If that sounds like you, we’d love to meet you.

Our Interview Process

1. Phone screen with Laminar Head of Ops or Recruiter (15-20 minutes)

2. Intro call with Hiring Manager (30 minutes)

3. On-site interview, overview of tech, and interview/presentation with the Hiring Manager and a few team members. Depending on the role, a skills exercise that should take no longer than an hour to prep, would be sent ahead of time. We record your skills exercise to share with any team members who could not join the interview and/or with Founder's ahead of their Founder's Interview. If you are not local, we can conduct this virtually.

4. Finalists for Full-Time positions will have a Founder’s Interview in-person

Final steps:

Two professional references are requested, ideally one from your current organization and one who served as your Manager

If an Offer Letter is extended, a Background check is conducted

Laminar is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. Even if you are unsure you are a perfect fit, we strongly encourage you to apply! If you're ready to play a key role in scaling a game-changing company that’s transforming the industrial sector and advancing sustainability, we want to hear from you.

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