Founding Recruiter

What Were 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.
  
  

• 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
  
  

• 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
  
  

• 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