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.

• We’re a team of passionate, mission-driven engineers from companies like Tesla, Amazon, Space
  
  X, 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