Senior Technical Recruiter

Neuron Industries • Gardena, CA

17d

About The Position

This is a hands-on individual contributor role working directly with Neuron’s founders to translate hiring priorities into hires and build the recruiting function. The primary focus is technical hiring across electrical engineering, embedded systems, software, AI, and industrial controls, with support for critical business and leadership searches as the company grows.

The recruiter owns searches from role discovery through accepted offer: clarifying hiring needs, identifying and engaging candidates, assessing fit, maintaining candidate relationships, and leading offer and closing work. The role also establishes trusted recruiting processes, advises founders and hiring managers using market evidence, and applies AI to research, sourcing, and recruiting operations while relying on personal judgment for candidate assessment and communication.

Requirements

• Track record of independently sourcing and closing difficult technical searches, including in-house recruiting experience.
• Strong outbound recruiting skills, with the ability to explain how candidates were found, engaged, assessed, and hired.
• Curiosity and ability to learn unfamiliar engineering disciplines and distinguish relevant accomplishments from a convincing résumé.
• Confidence advising founders and hiring managers, raising concerns, and recommending better approaches.
• Strong offer-closing skills, including clear discussions about compensation, equity, risk, and career motivations.
• Reliable execution across multiple searches, including keeping commitments, maintaining accurate pipelines, and addressing delays.
• Comfort creating structure while processes are still taking shape and carrying out detailed recruiting work.

Nice To Haves

• Recruiting experience in hardware, robotics, aerospace, semiconductors, industrial technology, or another engineering-intensive environment.
• Experience owning recruiting at an early-stage company or building a recruiting function, workflow, or sourcing program from scratch.
• Experience developing technical referral networks, university relationships, or other repeatable talent sources.

Responsibilities

• Partner with founders and hiring managers to define role requirements, capabilities, and evidence of candidate strength; challenge unnecessarily restrictive requirements.
• Build talent maps, research relevant teams and technical communities, and write targeted candidate outreach.
• Develop understanding of the company’s engineering work and conduct substantive recruiter screens; help interviewers assess candidates effectively.
• Manage candidate relationships, understand motivations, communicate clearly, keep processes moving, address concerns, and accurately represent the opportunity and demands of joining an early team.
• Partner with founders on compensation and equity, negotiate offers, address competing opportunities, and build closing strategies throughout searches.
• Establish scorecards, interview plans, feedback practices, and ATS workflows that make hiring consistent without unnecessary steps.
• Use AI to improve research, sourcing, and recruiting operations while applying personal judgment to candidate assessment and communication.
• Use market evidence to report on search effectiveness and candidate drop-off, recommend changes, and help the team make realistic tradeoffs among requirements, compensation, and timing.
• Independently source and close difficult technical searches and execute reliably across multiple searches, maintaining accurate pipelines and addressing delays.

What This Job Offers

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