You will work side by side with engineering leaders and a deeply technical co-CEO who all care deeply about talent density and treat recruiting as a core part of how we win. You will have real influence over who joins, a direct line to the people making those decisions, and the chance to build the recruiting function for one of the most exciting engineering organizations in autonomy.
What You'll Own
Hiring strategy and execution for Nuro Driver across ML, autonomy, systems engineering, controls, and localization
Leadership and key-hire searches, run personally from sourcing through close
A team of 4-5 recruiters, including hiring, coaching, workload, and performance
Quarterly hiring plans tied to engineering priorities, with clear capacity, timelines, and tradeoffs
Pipeline and funnel metrics, reviewed weekly with engineering leaders
What You'll Do
Partner directly with engineering directors, VPs, and the co-CEO to define role scope, sharpen the profile, and decide where the real talent pool sits
Map the market for niche skill sets (perception, planning, prediction, ML infrastructure, state estimation, sensor calibration, safety-critical systems) and build target lists by company, lab, and team
Run senior searches personally and close candidates who are choosing between multiple strong offers
Coach recruiters on sourcing depth, technical screening, and selling the mission to people who are hard to impress
Calibrate with hiring managers on bar, interview design, and decision speed, and push back when the process is losing candidates
Build the reporting engineers actually trust: pipeline health, conversion by stage, time to offer, offer acceptance, source quality
Work with Total Rewards on offer strategy and competing offers for high-demand profiles
About You
7+ years in technical recruiting, with at least 3 hiring ML, robotics, autonomy, or similarly specialized engineering talent
2+ years managing recruiters, ideally while still carrying your own searches
Experience hiring Staff, Principal, and Director + level engineers
A working understanding of the Autonomy or ML talent market: who is moving, who is not, what key talent care about, and how compensation in offers is set
The technical fluency to hold a credible conversation with a software engineer or research scientist, and to tell a strong candidate from a polished one
A data-first approach. You know your team’s funnel numbers, you can explain why they moved, and you act on them
Strong judgment in competitive closes, including candidates holding offers from top startups and big tech
Desire to build a true partnership with engineering leaders, including: advising on how to build the right hiring process, how to sell and pitch, and how to ensure we keep a high talent bar.
Bonus Points
Experience at an AV, robotics, ML, or frontier AI company
Experience tackling recruiting problems with outside of the box thinking and recommendations
At Nuro, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package. For this position, the reasonably expected base pay range is between $160,000 and $240,000 for the level at which this job has been scoped. Your base pay will depend on several factors, including your experience, qualifications, education, location, and skills. In the event that you are considered for a different level, a higher or lower pay range would apply. This position is also eligible for an annual performance bonus, equity, and a competitive benefits package.
At Nuro, we celebrate differences and are committed to a diverse workplace that fosters inclusion and psychological safety for all employees. Nuro is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and expressly prohibits any form of workplace discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics. #LI-DNP
