Technical Recruiter

TAR•San Francisco, CA

3d•Onsite

About The Position

TAR builds fully islanded solar and storage campuses that power AI data centers, plus the proprietary racking and construction robots to build them, and how fast we build is set by how fast we hire. As Technical Recruiter in our San Francisco office, you are the culture leader recruiting talent and curating the TAR brand in California. You sit with the R&D team and hire exceptional people across robotics, hardware, and software. You partner closely with department heads and the co-founders to bring the absolute best talent into TAR, ensuring a constant up-leveling of our teams. We move fast, and your pipelines mirror that sense of urgency. As TAR grows and evolves, you are the subject matter expert who sharpens our interview process.

Requirements

7+ years of recruiting experience and a relevant Bachelor's degree.
4+ years of closing experience, taking candidates from offer through signed.
Full-cycle recruiting experience across technical and non-technical departments.
Experience hiring mechanical, electrical, hardware, and software engineering roles.
Evidence of partnering with hiring managers and leadership as a trusted talent advisor, challenging assumptions and bringing market data that elevates hiring strategy.
High ownership and urgency: you run searches end to end and keep pipelines moving at startup pace.

Nice To Haves

Energy sector recruiting experience, for example with firms like Piper Maddox, Taylor Hopkinson, or NES Fircroft.
Experience hiring heavy robotics talent from defense, manufacturing, autonomy, or similar industries.
Startup experience as a full-lifecycle recruiter.
Recruiting coordination experience.

Responsibilities

Own full-cycle recruiting for our San Francisco R&D team across robotics, hardware, and software roles, from intake and sourcing through offer and close.
Build deep outbound pipelines of passive candidates; the engineers we want are rarely on the market, so you go find them.
Partner with department heads and the co-founders as a trusted talent advisor, defining ideal profiles, challenging assumptions, and bringing market data that sharpens each search.
Run a structured, high-signal interview process in Ashby, keeping loops fast, feedback crisp, and interviewers calibrated.
Drive offers to signed, partnering with leadership on offer strategy and closing senior candidates against competitive alternatives.
Own the candidate experience end to end, so every candidate leaves as an advocate for TAR whether or not they get an offer.
Represent TAR in the Bay Area talent market and build our employer brand across the robotics, hardware, and software communities.
Track recruiting metrics such as time-to-hire, passthrough rates, and offer acceptance, and use them to improve the funnel and the interview process as TAR scales.