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