Robotics, Hardware, and Perception Recruiter

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Job description

About the role:

As Lead Recruiter, you will hunt, court, and close technical talent with diverse skill sets spanning across perception, mechatronics, and robotics. You will partner closely with engineering leaders across our Robotics software stack to help us achieve our ambitious hiring goals.

We want a self starter who can work in an early stage environment without much or any supervision. Chef is a well funded company out of San Francisco with a massive mission to put a dent in the global malnutrition and hunger crisis and we're looking to work with the most ambitious people in the world to execute on our mission.

About the work:

• Manage the full-cycle technical recruiting process. You'll own top-of-funnel strategy, drive searches, and run point on offers and closing candidates.
• Partner with engineering leaders across our Robotics team on talent strategy, contributing your expertise on the engineering market, planning interview best practices, and building an effective recruiting process to ensure we obtain and attract world-class diverse talent
• Use analytics and data to drive change and influence hiring decisions
• Be diligent in holding to our high hiring bar and in seeking out the right fit for both Chef and job seekers we interview from a skillset and cultural perspective
• Partner with the recruiting and sourcing team to build active pipeline, implement, and adopt new and existing programs, tools, workflows to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of our processes

About you:

• You are a hunter, skilled at creatively sourcing and interesting highly coveted, passive engineering talent without relying on databases, external platforms, or job boards
• You are experienced and have a minimum of 3 years experience working in-house at one or more hyper growth technology companies, ideally a start-up
• You are discerning and thrive in environments with a stratospheric hiring bar from both a functional/skillset and culture perspective
• You are an engaging people person with strong communication skills and the nature ability to quickly build rapport and trust
• You are a hustler. You are self-motivated and adept at prioritizing and driving multiple concurrent searches simultaneously
• You are intellectually curious with the ability to grasp new technical concepts quickly and converse credibly with engineering experts
• You have integrity and a strong work ethic
• You have a passion for hard-tech and ideally an interest in robotics
• You have a strong network in robotics / AI / mechatronics in the bay area

Bonus:

• Experience recruiting for machine learning and/or robotics engineers
• Building and supporting diversity and inclusion initiatives