Autonomy Engineering Recruiting Manager (AI)

Location: Mountain View, California, United States (HQ)

Base pay: $160,000–$240,000 per year, plus annual performance bonus, equity, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global is a physical AI company developing Level 4 autonomous driving technology and a universal autonomy platform for robotaxis, logistics fleets, and personal vehicles.

What you will do

• Own hiring strategy and execution for hirify.global Driver across machine learning, autonomy, systems engineering, controls, and localization.
• Personally run leadership and key-hire searches from sourcing through close.
• Lead a team of 4–5 recruiters through hiring, coaching, workload planning, and performance management.
• Partner with engineering directors, VPs, and the co-CEO to define roles, calibrate hiring standards, and improve interview processes.
• Map specialized talent markets and build target lists across companies, research labs, and engineering teams.
• Build trusted recruiting reports covering pipeline health, conversion, time to offer, offer acceptance, and source quality.

Requirements

• 7+ years of technical recruiting experience, including at least 3 years hiring machine learning, robotics, autonomy, or similarly specialized engineering talent.
• 2+ years managing recruiters while ideally continuing to run individual searches.
• Working knowledge of the autonomy or machine learning talent market and compensation practices.
• Technical fluency sufficient to hold credible conversations with software engineers and research scientists.
• Data-driven approach to recruiting funnels, competitive offers, and hiring decisions.
• Strong judgment and partnership skills for working with engineering leaders on hiring processes, candidate pitches, and talent standards.

Nice to have

• Experience at an autonomous vehicle, robotics, machine learning, or frontier AI company.
• Experience hiring Staff, Principal, and Director-level engineers.
• Creative, outside-the-box approaches to recruiting challenges.

Culture & Benefits

• Direct collaboration with engineering leaders and a technical co-CEO.
• Meaningful influence over hiring decisions and the development of the recruiting function.
• Annual performance bonus, equity, and a competitive benefits package.
• Commitment to diversity, inclusion, psychological safety, and equal employment opportunity.