Autonomy Engineering Recruiting Manager
About The Position
Nuro is seeking a hands-on recruiting manager to build the engineering team behind its universal autonomy platform. This role involves leading a team of 4-5 recruiters and personally managing critical searches in areas like ML, autonomy, systems engineering, and controls. The position requires close collaboration with engineering leaders and the co-CEO, with a significant impact on talent acquisition strategy and execution. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of the technical recruiting landscape, particularly in ML and autonomy, and a data-driven approach to managing hiring plans and metrics.
Requirements
- 7+ years in technical recruiting
- At least 3 years hiring ML, robotics, autonomy, or similarly specialized engineering talent
- 2+ years managing recruiters, ideally while still carrying your own searches
- A working understanding of the Autonomy or ML talent market: who is moving, who is not, what key talent care about, and how compensation in offers is set
- Technical fluency to hold a credible conversation with a software engineer or research scientist, and to tell a strong candidate from a polished one
- A data-first approach: knowing team's funnel numbers, explaining metric movements, and acting on them
- Strong judgment in competitive closes, including candidates holding offers from top startups and big tech
- Desire to build a true partnership with engineering leaders, including advising on hiring process, selling and pitching, and maintaining a high talent bar
Nice To Haves
- Experience at an AV, robotics, ML, or frontier AI company
- Experience hiring Staff, Principal, and Director + level engineers
- Experience tackling recruiting problems with outside of the box thinking and recommendations
Responsibilities
- Hiring strategy and execution for Nuro Driver across ML, autonomy, systems engineering, controls, and localization
- Leadership and key-hire searches, run personally from sourcing through close
- Managing a team of 4-5 recruiters, including hiring, coaching, workload, and performance
- Developing quarterly hiring plans tied to engineering priorities, with clear capacity, timelines, and tradeoffs
- Tracking and reporting on pipeline and funnel metrics weekly with engineering leaders
Benefits
- Annual performance bonus
- Equity
- Competitive benefits package
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
