Senior Recruiter

Eka • Cambridge, MA

25d

About The Position

Eka Robotics is seeking a hands-on Senior Recruiter to help build the team for its next stage of growth. The role primarily recruits exceptional technical talent across robotics, reinforcement learning, computer vision, simulation, and software. Working directly with company leadership, the recruiter identifies exceptional candidates, finds creative ways to reach them, builds relationships, and helps close them. This role personally sources candidates, develops talent maps, conducts candidate conversations, and drives searches forward rather than focusing solely on creating processes for others to execute.

The ideal candidate began 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. The position also partners with leadership on People initiatives, including headcount planning, compensation, performance management, manager development, and company-expansion strategy, and works with the existing talent team and recruiting partners to keep high-priority searches moving quickly.

Requirements

• 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.

Nice To Haves

• Experience recruiting through communities and conferences such as CoRL, ICRA, IROS, OpenReview, and arXiv.
• Experience with compensation, organizational planning, and performance management.
• Experience supporting a company through rapid growth or expansion into new markets.

Responsibilities

• Personally source and recruit specialized research and engineering talent, initially focusing on robotics, machine learning and reinforcement learning, 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 an early ambassador for Eka.
• Own candidate conversations and partner with leadership on interview strategy, offers, closing, and follow-up.
• Continuously improve recruiting workflows, processes, and systems.
• Work with the existing talent team and recruiting partners to move high-priority searches forward quickly.
• Partner with leadership on People initiatives, including headcount planning, compensation, performance management, manager development, and company-expansion strategy.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed