Founding Recruiter

What We're Building:

We have been quietly building the foundational layers of our Physical AI Scientist platform:

🤖 Physical AI that can operate scientific instruments with human-level dexterity.

🧪 Scientific AI that can analyze results, reason about next steps, and close the loop autonomously.

This is an incredibly ambitious mission, but we believe that a team of ambitious people with high ownership can accomplish incredible things.

The Team:

• We’re a team of passionate, mission-driven engineers from companies like Tesla, Amazon, SpaceX, and Neuralink. We’re collaborative and love moving fast, both with our product and on team trips skiing or go-karting!
• As a team, we love nerding out about engineering and robotics — plus other topics like race cars or cooking. We like learning new things and then sharing our new knowledge with each other.
• Our team is opinionated and straightforward. We don’t mind intense discussions about design tradeoffs. If we have arguments or miscommunication, we resolve conflicts quickly and empathetically.
  
  

In this role, you will:

• Build and own the entire talent function at Medra
• Partner directly with leadership to define hiring needs and shape role requirements
• Run full-cycle recruiting across technical and non-technical roles
• Develop sourcing strategies and proactively engage top-tier candidates
• Create and refine interview processes, rubrics, and evaluation systems
• Clearly communicate progress, surface risks early, and keep hiring moving quickly
• Build scalable recruiting workflows, systems, and tools
• Maintain an excellent candidate experience and represent Medra’s mission compellingly
• Take full ownership of critical hires from start to finish
• This is a 5 days a week in-person role in our San Francisco office; relocation support available
  
  

Let's talk if you have:

• 4-10 years of full-cycle recruiting experience, ideally at fast-growing startups
• Ability to source, assess, and close exceptional technical talent
• Strong communication skills and comfort working directly with founders
• Experience building processes, workflows, or recruiting systems
• A builders mindset- you are scrappy, fast-moving, adaptable
• Willingness to wear many hats and own broad responsibilities
• A bias toward action, autonomy, and high accountability
  
  

Bonus points if you have:

• Experience hiring in AI, robotics, biotech, or other deep tech areas
• Early-stage or founding-team recruiting experience
• Familiarity with structured hiring, compensation research, and talent branding
• Experience bringing candidates from outreach → hire in fast, high-bar environments
  
  

Compensation Range: $170K - $225K