Technical Recruiter - Milpitas, CA - $160K-$180K

Location: Milpitas, CA (in-person, 5 days a week)

Compensation: $160,000 - $180,000 base, plus competitive equity

Join a fast-growing physical AI company as a Technical Recruiter, running full-cycle hiring for some of the hardest technical roles in robotics, ML, and embodied AI.

What You'll Own

- Run full-cycle recruiting across active technical roles: sourcing, screening, interview coordination, and closing

- Write custom outbound for the hardest technical roles to reach candidates who are not on the open market

- Partner with hiring managers to calibrate rubrics, run debriefs, and hold the bar across the loop

- Own candidate experience end-to-end in the ATS, with clean pipelines, fast scheduling, and structured scorecards

- Partner with leadership on offer construction and closing

- Support go-to-market hiring as the team grows

What You'll Bring

- 2-5 years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience at a startup or tech company

- A track record of personally closing engineering hires at a high-growth tech company

- Strong experience with Ashby or a comparable ATS and structured interview processes

- The ability to explain tradeoffs and candidate read-outs clearly to hiring managers

- Comfort operating in ambiguity and at the pace of an early-stage company

Nice to Have

- Robotics, hardware, applied AI, or deep-tech recruiting experience

- Go-to-market recruiting exposure

- Technical fluency, comfortable holding a conversation with an engineer about their work

- Prior experience at a startup that scaled past 100 employees

This is a hands-on recruiting seat at a company building physical AI systems that are already inspecting billions of dollars of real-world products every year, with a brand-new robotics bet just getting underway.