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Path Robotics is building embodied AI systems that enable robots to adapt, learn, and perform in real-world environments. The company combines perception, reasoning, and control to deliver field-ready AI that closes the skilled labor gap across manufacturing and other industries.
As Operations & Defense Recruiter, you will own end-to-end recruiting across a broad portfolio of operational functions: Manufacturing Operations, Deployment & Fleet Operations, Field & Customer Operations, Supply Chain, and Defense-related programs. This is a strategic recruiting role, not order-taking. You'll work directly with operations and business leaders to understand their organizations, anticipate talent needs, challenge assumptions, and build recruiting strategies that deliver the right talent at the right time.
Key responsibilities include:
- Own full-cycle recruiting across manufacturing, production, deployment, fleet operations, field services, customer-facing technical roles, supply chain, and defense programs
- Recruit across multiple levels, from skilled technicians and individual contributors to managers and operational leaders
- Build proactive sourcing strategies for specialized, difficult-to-find operational talent; engage passive candidates
- Conduct candidate screens, manage interview processes, develop offers, and close candidates
- Build and maintain talent pipelines ahead of future hiring needs
- Deliver high-quality candidate experience through consistent communication, urgency, and transparency
- Build strong relationships with hiring managers; become a trusted partner on organizational and hiring needs
- Help leaders define what great talent looks like before launching a search
- Use market data, candidate feedback, and pipeline performance to influence hiring decisions
- Push back when requirements unnecessarily limit the talent pool and recommend alternative approaches
- Translate hiring demand into business impact and help leaders prioritize roles
- Maintain strong operating rhythm with hiring managers around pipeline health, interviews, offers, risks, and hiring forecasts
- Develop repeatable recruiting strategies and talent pipelines that scale with the company
- Use recruiting data to understand funnel health, identify bottlenecks, and improve outcomes
- Build targeted sourcing campaigns, referral strategies, talent maps, and competitive intelligence
- Identify opportunities to automate or simplify recruiting processes
- Partner across the Talent Acquisition team to raise quality and speed of hiring
Requirements:
- 4+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, ideally supporting operations, manufacturing, supply chain, field service, defense, or other technical environments
- Demonstrated experience recruiting across multiple operational functions rather than a single job family
- Experience partnering directly with hiring managers and senior leaders to define requirements and develop recruiting strategies
- Strong proactive sourcing skills with demonstrated success engaging passive talent
- Experience recruiting in fast-moving environments with high hiring volume and changing priorities
- Ability to understand technical and operational roles deeply enough to effectively assess and sell candidates
- Experience using recruiting data to manage pipelines and influence hiring decisions
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills
- Highly organized with ability to manage multiple searches and candidate funnels simultaneously
- Self-sufficient and comfortable operating with high degree of autonomy
- Willingness to get close to the work—spending time on production floor, learning technology, understanding what teams experience at customer sites
