Senior Technical Recruiter

Nuro Nuro · Robotics · CA · Recruiting

Nuro is seeking a Senior Technical Recruiter to identify, engage, and close top talent for their Machine Learning Infrastructure, Data Infrastructure, Data Platform, and Core Infrastructure Engineering teams. The role involves managing the full recruiting cycle, partnering with engineering leaders, using data to improve hiring, and maintaining a high hiring bar. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of in-house technical recruiting experience at high-growth tech companies, with a focus on infrastructure or platform engineering, and a proven ability to source and assess high-caliber technical talent.

What you'd actually do

  1. Manage the full-cycle technical recruiting process, including top-of-funnel strategy, proactive sourcing, driving searches, and leading offers and closing.
  2. Partner with engineering leaders across ML Infrastructure, Data Platform, Developer Productivity, and Core Infrastructure to shape hiring strategy, define role profiles, and ensure a highly effective and structured interview process.
  3. Use data and analytics to influence hiring decisions, identify bottlenecks, and continuously improve recruiting velocity and quality.
  4. Maintain our high hiring bar by assessing both technical strength and cultural alignment, ensuring each hire elevates the team.
  5. Collaborate with sourcing and recruiting partners to build strong pipelines, implement new tools and workflows, and increase the overall efficiency of our recruiting engine.

Skills

Required

  • 5 years of in-house technical recruiting experience at high-growth technology companies or start-ups
  • Experience with infrastructure or platform engineering recruiting
  • Ability to creatively identify and engage deeply technical, high-caliber talent
  • Ability to assess technical strength and cultural alignment
  • Strong prioritization skills
  • Ability to grasp complex technical concepts
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Nice to have

  • Experience recruiting ML infrastructure, distributed systems, data platform, or large-scale infrastructure engineers
  • Experience supporting diversity and inclusion initiatives
  • Familiarity with Greenhouse ATS

What the JD emphasized

  • high hiring bar
  • assessing both technical strength and cultural alignment
  • high-growth technology companies
  • infrastructure or platform engineering
  • ML infrastructure, distributed systems, data platform, or large-scale infrastructure engineers