Principal Technical Recruiter, AIML

At Bedrock were moving AI out of the lab and into the real world. Our team includes veterans who helped launch Waymo scaled Segment to a $3.2B acquisition and grew Uber Freight to $5B in revenue. Today were deploying autonomous systems on heavy construction equipment across the country improving safety on job sites and accelerating schedules on critical infrastructure projects.

Were not here debating the future of AI. Were deploying it in the real just two years weve raised $350M and achieved the first fully autonomous excavator deployments in construction.

This is where algorithms meet steel-toed boots. Youll work alongside construction veterans and world-class engineers to solve physical-world problems that simulations cant touch. If youre ready to do meaningful work on hard problems wed love to have you join us.

As a Principal AI/ML Recruiter at Bedrock Robotics youll lead end-to-end recruiting for our most critical technical and leadership roles as we bring advanced autonomy to the $13 trillion construction industry. Youll partner directly with engineering leadership and our founding team to identify and close world-class talent in AI/ML and robotics and help shape how we hire as we scale autonomous construction equipment across the U.S.

Youll hunt and close the AI/ML researchers perception engineers and autonomy scientists that top AI labs are fighting over through real relationships in academic labs conference circuits (NeurIPS CVPR ICLR ICRA) and the spinout ecosystem not LinkedIn searches. Youll need enough technical fluency to hold your own with a computer vision PhD spot breakout talent before its obvious and earn respect.

And youll need to close like it matters: know which candidates are at risk why offers stall and when to step in whether thats pulling in leadership resetting the comp story or creating urgency. Losing a top-1% hire to OpenAI or Anthropic over process lag isnt an option.

• Own full-cycle recruiting for AI/ML perception and robotics roles partnering directly with engineering leadership and founders on hiring strategy

• Own technical Leadership searches

• Build and use AI-powered recruiting tools to source faster and keep pipeline data clean

• Run compensation strategy and offer negotiation for niche AI/ML and robotics specialties using market intelligence from tech and construction

• Represent Bedrock at technical conferences and robotics meetups to build our employer brand

• Partner with leadership to scale recruiting operations and mentor future recruiters as the team grows

• 10 years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience with a track record of winning talent away from competitive AI/ML robotics and autonomous systems companies

• Deep technical fluency in AI/ML computer vision perception motion planning reinforcement learning and model architecture enough to evaluate research quality and engineering depth

• Advanced sourcing skills across Boolean search LinkedIn Recruiter GitHub research papers and technical community networks backed by fluency with AI-powered recruiting tools

• A data-driven approach to pipeline health and market intelligence

• Strong negotiation skills for offers involving equity relocation and competing startup opportunities

• San Francisco Bay Area based hybrid 2-3x per week in office

• Regular in-person collaboration with engineering teams and leadership

• Occasional travel for conferences industry events and partnership meetings

• Previous recruiting experience in AI at top AI labs autonomous vehicle companies or robotics startups

• Understanding of safety-critical software development and hardware-software integration

• Network within AI/ML research communities and the autonomous systems industry

• Experience scaling recruiting operations in high-growth startup environments

• Industry knowledge of construction technology or industrial automation

Our roles are often flexible. If you dont fit all the criteria or are in another location (especially one where we have an office like SF or NY) please apply anyway! Wed love to consider you.

Bedrock Robotics is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Were committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin ancestry age disability veteran status genetic information or any other protected characteristic.

Reasonable Accommodations

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