About Neuron Industries America deserves abundance. Neuron Industries is rebuilding industrial automation from the hardware up. We’re building Cortex AIC, an AI-native industrial controller, and Synapse, the development environment engineers use to program, test, deploy, and debug it. We build the hardware and software together. Our work makes industrial systems easier to develop and dependable on the factory floor. Come help us build the next generation of American manufacturing. About the role You’ll work directly with the founders to turn our hiring priorities into exceptional hires—and build the recruiting function as you go. Your core focus will be technical hiring across electrical engineering, embedded systems, software, AI, and industrial controls. You’ll also support critical business and leadership searches as the company grows. You’ll own the work from the first conversation about a role through an accepted offer. That means understanding what we need, finding people who are hard to reach, earning their interest, and helping both sides make a well-informed decision. This is a hands-on individual contributor role with meaningful influence over how Neuron hires. We need someone who can advise the founders on a difficult search, then write the outreach and get it moving. What you’ll build • Turn hiring needs into focused searches. Partner with founders and hiring managers to define the work, the capabilities required, and the evidence that will distinguish a strong candidate. Challenge requirements that unnecessarily narrow the search. • Find and engage exceptional people. Build talent maps, research relevant teams and technical communities, and write outreach that gives someone a specific reason to consider Neuron. • Develop technical depth. Learn what our engineers build, which problems they solve, and what strong performance looks like. Run substantive recruiter screens and help interviewers assess the right things. • Own the candidate relationship. Understand motivations, communicate clearly, keep the process moving, and address concerns early. Give candidates an honest picture of the opportunity and the demands of joining an early team. • Lead offers and closing. Partner with the founders on compensation, equity, negotiations, and competing opportunities. Build a closing strategy throughout the process. • Build a recruiting process people trust. Establish useful scorecards, interview plans, feedback habits, and ATS workflows. Make hiring more consistent without adding unnecessary steps. Use AI to improve research, sourcing, and recruiting operations while keeping candidate assessment and communication grounded in your own judgment. • Bring judgment and market evidence. Show where searches are working, where candidates drop out, and what needs to change. Help the team make realistic tradeoffs across requirements, compensation, and timing. What you’ve already proven • A track record of independently sourcing and closing difficult technical searches, including experience recruiting in-house. • Evidence of strong outbound recruiting. You can explain how you found a candidate, earned their attention, assessed fit, and brought the hire across the finish line. • The curiosity to learn unfamiliar engineering disciplines and the judgment to distinguish relevant accomplishments from a convincing résumé. • The confidence to advise founders and hiring managers, raise concerns, and recommend a better approach. • Strong closing skills, including clear conversations about compensation, equity, risk, and career motivations. • Reliable execution across multiple searches. You keep commitments, maintain accurate pipelines, and address delays before they become recurring problems. • Comfort creating structure when the process is still taking shape—and doing the detailed work yourself. What gets you here faster • Recruiting in hardware, robotics, aerospace, semiconductors, industrial technology, or another engineering-intensive environment. • Owning recruiting at an early-stage company or building a function, workflow, or sourcing program from scratch. • Developing technical referral networks, university relationships, or other repeatable sources of talent. Compensation The base pay range for this role is $130,000 – $160,000 per year. How we work We’re a small team with ambitious goals and a lot to build. We work together in Gardena, move quickly, and take ownership of what we ship. Some days run into the evening as we work through hard problems and get improvements into customers’ hands. We’re looking for people who enjoy that pace and help each other deliver. We use AI tools throughout engineering to accelerate research, implementation, testing, and documentation. We check the results and remain accountable for what ships. What you get • Real ownership. Meaningful equity alongside your base salary. You’ll help build the company and share in the value we create. • Health, fully covered. 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision. • Time to recharge. Unlimited paid time off. • Fuel for builders. Catered lunch and dinner, plus stocked snacks and drinks throughout the day. Interview process • Recruiter conversation • Technical discussion • Onsite with the team These roles require U.S. work authorization without current or future employer sponsorship. For interview accommodations, contact [email protected]. If your experience fits the core work but not every preferred qualification, apply. Neuron Industries is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. Ready to build? Apply below.