Technical Sourcer
Technical Sourcer responsible for building and executing sourcing strategies for hard-to-fill robotics, data infrastructure, and product engineering roles. Partner closely with founders and hiring managers to engage passive senior technical talent in a competitive market.
About the job
What You'll Do
- Build and run sourcing strategies for technical roles across robotics, infrastructure, and product engineering, including niche and hard-to-fill positions.
- Proactively identify, engage, and build relationships with passive candidates through channels like LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, niche robotics/ML communities, top journals/conferences, and referrals.
- Partner with hiring managers and founders to translate role requirements into precise sourcing criteria and compelling outreach.
- Write and iterate on outreach messaging that stands out to senior, in-demand engineers who aren't actively job-hunting.
- Manage and continuously improve the top-of-funnel pipeline: track sourcing metrics, experiment with new channels, and double down on what converts.
- Maintain a strong, organized candidate pipeline and ensure a fast, high-quality candidate experience from first touch through handoff to the interview process.
- Help build sourcing process, tooling, and market maps as the team and hiring needs scale.
What We're Looking For
- 2+ years of technical sourcing or recruiting experience, ideally in a startup or high-growth environment; experience sourcing for robotics, ML, or data infrastructure roles is a strong plus.
- A track record of successfully engaging and closing passive, senior technical candidates in competitive markets.
- Genuine curiosity about the technical work itself — comfortable learning enough about robotics, ML, and infrastructure to speak credibly with engineers and identify strong-fit candidates.
- Excellent written communication; you can craft outreach that gets a reply from someone who gets a dozen recruiter messages a week.
- High ownership and self-direction — comfortable building process from scratch rather than working within an established playbook.
- Strong organizational instincts for managing pipelines, data, and follow-up across multiple concurrent searches.
- Bonus: experience sourcing in the Bay Area robotics/hardware ecosystem, or a network in that space.
Skills
LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, Sourcing, Recruiting, Technical Sourcing, Talent Pipeline Management
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