Sourcing Recruiter

About the Role

Third Wave Automation is a rapidly growing startup that has demonstrated its core technology components, proven its market fit, and just closed its Series C funding. If you are excited about cutting edge machine learning, robotics that affects the real world, and want to join a company where your skills can have a huge impact, you'll fit right in. Third Wave Automation is applying modern machine learning to materials handling—delivering site-specific forklift navigation and infrastructure-free pallet handling that continuously adapts to changing floor configuration and warehouse demand.

About the Job

As a Sourcing Recruiter at TWA, you will be the primary engine driving our candidate pipeline. You will partner closely with Recruiters and Hiring Managers to identify, engage, and activate top-tier passive candidates in highly competitive talent pools (including Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, AI/ML, and Embedded Systems). If you thrive in an agile startup environment, love deep candidate research, are an expert with recruiting tools (LinkedIn Recruiter, Greenhouse) and personalized outreach to turn hard-to-reach engineering talent into excited TWA candidates, this role is for you.

How You Can Make An Impact

• Pipeline Generation: Proactively source, engage, and nurture passive candidate pipelines for highly skilled roles across Engineering, Product and Customer Success organizations.
• Talent Mapping: Conduct deep-dive talent research and market mapping across robotics startups, autonomous vehicle companies, deep-tech research hubs, and tier-one engineering orgs.
• AI-Enhanced Workflows: Embrace TWA's AI-first philosophy by integrating AI sourcing tools, automation platforms, and LLMs into your daily sourcing stack to personalize outreach at scale.
• Hiring Manager Partnership: Collaborate directly with engineering and cross-functional leads to calibrate target profiles, refine job requirements, and deliver actionable talent market insights.
• Compelling Candidate Engagement: Craft hyper-personalized outreach strategies that articulate TWA's tech stack, culture, and value proposition to stand out in candidates' inboxes.
• Diversity & Inclusion: Champion equitable sourcing practices to build diverse candidate slates across all business areas.
• Analytics & Sourcing Metrics: Track conversion rates, outreach velocity, and channel efficiency to continuously refine your sourcing strategy and inform talent acquisition leadership.

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years of dedicated technical talent sourcing experience in a fast-growing tech startup, agency, or high-growth hardware/software company.
• Technical Domain Fluency: Proven success sourcing hard-to-fill technical roles across Robotics, C++, SLAM, Sensor Processing, AI/ML, Embedded Systems, or Edge Computing.
• Advanced Sourcing Toolkit: Mastery of LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, Boolean search syntax, X-ray searches, and niche tech communities.
• AI Tool Proficiency: Experience utilizing modern AI productivity and sourcing tools (e.g., Gemini, ChatGPT, automated outbound tools) to accelerate workflow and improve outreach effectiveness.
• Relationship Focus: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with an authentic, consultative outreach style.
• Adaptability: Ability to pivot quickly as hiring priorities change in a rapid-growth startup environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience in Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles (AV), Industrial Automation, or Hardware-Software integration.
• Familiarity with modern recruiting technology stacks (Greenhouse ATS, candidate sourcing CRMs, data analytics dashboards).
• Experience sourcing across both technical (Engineering/Product) and non-technical (Operations, Customer Success, Field Operations) domains.

Our Core Values

• Safety: We consider safety in everything we do.
• People: We care about our teammates as people.
• Encouragement: We encourage teaching, asking questions, and sharing opinions.
• Transparency: We are transparent and sincere in our actions.