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Autonomy Engineering Recruiting Manager

Nuro· Recruiting
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Mountain View, CA$160k - $240kfull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Hands-on recruiting manager role within Nuro Driver engineering organization, leading 4-5 recruiters and personally running critical searches across ML, autonomy, systems engineering, controls, and localization to build the recruiting function for a core autonomous driving platform.

Responsibilities

  • Hiring strategy and execution for Nuro Driver across ML, autonomy, systems engineering, controls, and localization
  • Leadership and key-hire searches, run personally from sourcing through close
  • A team of 4-5 recruiters, including hiring, coaching, workload, and performance
  • Quarterly hiring plans tied to engineering priorities, with clear capacity, timelines, and tradeoffs
  • Pipeline and funnel metrics, reviewed weekly with engineering leaders
  • Partner directly with engineering directors, VPs, and the co-CEO to define role scope, sharpen the profile, and decide where the real talent pool sits
  • Map the market for niche skill sets (perception, planning, prediction, ML infrastructure, state estimation, sensor calibration, safety-critical systems) and build target lists by company, lab, and team
  • Run senior searches personally and close candidates who are choosing between multiple strong offers
  • Coach recruiters on sourcing depth, technical screening, and selling the mission to people who are hard to impress
  • Calibrate with hiring managers on bar, interview design, and decision speed, and push back when the process is losing candidates
  • Build reporting engineers actually trust: pipeline health, conversion by stage, time to offer, offer acceptance, source quality
  • Work with Total Rewards on offer strategy and competing offers for high-demand profiles

Qualifications

  • 7+ years in technical recruiting, with at least 3 hiring ML, robotics, autonomy, or similarly specialized engineering talent
  • 2+ years managing recruiters, ideally while still carrying your own searches
  • Experience hiring Staff, Principal, and Director + level engineers
  • A working understanding of the Autonomy or ML talent market: who is moving, who is not, what key talent care about, and how compensation in offers is set
  • The technical fluency to hold a credible conversation with a software engineer or research scientist, and to tell a strong candidate from a polished one
  • A data-first approach. You know your team’s funnel numbers, you can explain why they moved, and you act on them
  • Strong judgment in competitive closes, including candidates holding offers from top startups and big tech
  • Desire to build a true partnership with engineering leaders, including advising on how to build the right hiring process, how to sell and pitch, and how to ensure we keep a high talent bar

Skills

Required:Hiring strategyPeople managementSenior recruiting

Benefits

  • Competitive base pay with range $160,000 - $240,000 (base salary range specific to level)
  • Annual performance bonus
  • Equity
  • Competitive benefits package
  • Diverse and inclusive workplace
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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