Talent Acquisition Partner (AI/Robotics)

Location: Boston (Somerville), onsite; candidates must be based in San Francisco or Boston and work in person. The role also supports hiring efforts across San Francisco and Boston, including occasional site visits and industry events.

Company

hirify.global builds embodied foundation models focused on dexterity, combining AI, robotics, data, models, and hardware to help robots interact intelligently with the physical world.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end searches, including intake, strategy, sourcing, screening, interview-loop design, closing, and handoff to onboarding.
• Map talent across research science, ML infrastructure, robotics controls, hardware, data operations, and go-to-market domains.
• Source and engage candidates through publications, conferences, repositories, referrals, and personalized outreach.
• Use AI tools for research, enrichment, and workflow improvement while maintaining accuracy and quality.
• Track pipeline conversion, channel effectiveness, and candidate feedback to guide hiring decisions and improve recruiting strategy.
• Partner with hiring managers on role scoping, calibration, interviewer preparation, debriefs, candidate closing, and external agency coordination.

Requirements

• 5+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience.
• Track record of closing senior technical hires with competing offers, with specific examples available for discussion.
• Experience building named-target searches from scratch in unfamiliar domains and hiring from those searches.
• Ability to build recruiting funnels, identify leaks, use ATS reporting and self-built spreadsheets, and apply findings to influence hiring-manager decisions.
• Current hands-on use of AI tools in recruiting workflows, with judgment about their usefulness and fabricated output.
• Exceptional written communication for outreach, briefs, and internal recommendations.
• Technical curiosity, including the ability to understand why one architecture outperformed another and assess the relevance of research abstracts.
• Strong relationship management with candidates, hiring managers, and agencies while maintaining hiring standards.
• Must be based in San Francisco or Boston and work in person.

Nice to have

• Experience hiring for a frontier research organization or AI lab, including research scientists, pre-training, post-training, RL, or ML infrastructure.
• Experience in robotics, autonomous vehicles, or hardware.
• Experience as an early or founding recruiter who built the recruiting function.
• Experience with Ashby or a comparable structured-interview ATS.
• Early agency or search-firm training combined with later in-house recruiting experience.
• Familiarity with both the Bay Area and Boston talent markets.

Culture & Benefits

• Join an initial talent team and help establish recruiting methodology from the ground up.
• Work closely with researchers, roboticists, engineers, and technical leaders on high-priority searches.
• Support in-person hiring across Boston and San Francisco, with occasional site visits and key industry events.
• Contribute to a mission focused on collaboration between humans and machines in the physical world.