About the role

ABOUT US Nidus is building autonomous manufacturing systems powered by AI and robotics. U.S. manufacturers are under growing pressure to increase output while navigating workforce constraints, underutilized equipment, and increasingly complex supply chains. We believe the next generation of manufacturing will be enabled by more intelligent, flexible automation—systems that help people and machines work together to expand capacity and improve productivity. We're building the intelligence layer that makes that possible. Our team comes from the intersection of defense technology and AI. We've built and shipped products to DoD customers, and we bring deep experience across ML, robotics, product development, and defense. We're a small, in-person team in New York City working on hard problems that matter. If you want to build the future of American manufacturing, we'd love to hear from you. ABOUT THE ROLE We’re looking for a Senior Technical Recruiter to help us build an exceptional team. At Nidus, we believe that recruiting is a fundamental part of how we build the company. The quality of the people we hire directly shapes the quality of the product, the speed at which we move, and what the company can become. We want someone who can operate as a true partner to the business: understand what we’re trying to accomplish, develop a strong point of view on the talent we need, and go find the people who can materially raise the bar. That means more than running a process. It means knowing what exceptional looks like, understanding where to find it, recognizing it even when it comes in a non-obvious package, and building enough trust and conviction with candidates that the right people want to join. You’ll work closely with our founders and hiring managers across highly technical searches, owning everything from defining the profile and mapping the market to sourcing, candidate strategy, process design, and closing. We expect you to bring judgment, not just execution. You should have opinions about talent, be willing to challenge hiring teams when needed, and help us continuously sharpen how we identify, assess, and recruit exceptional people. WHAT YOU’LL DO - Partner with founders and hiring managers to understand the business, technical roadmap, and what each hire needs to accomplish. - Turn that context into a clear point of view on the profile: what matters, what doesn’t, and where we should be looking. - Build talent maps and sourcing strategies for highly competitive technical searches. - Find and engage exceptional candidates, including people who are not actively looking and people who may not fit the obvious profile. - Look beyond titles, schools, and company logos to identify stronger signals of ability, trajectory, technical depth, originality, and judgment. - Develop a real understanding of candidates: what motivates them, what they’re optimizing for, what concerns them, and what would make an opportunity compelling. - Represent Nidus credibly to sophisticated candidates. Understand the company well enough to explain the business, the technical problems, the opportunity, and why the work matters. - Own candidate strategy throughout the process, from first outreach through close. - Design and run thoughtful interview processes that give hiring teams the signal they need without creating unnecessary process. - Push on weak assumptions, poorly defined profiles, or interview loops that are not working. - Bring market feedback back into the company and use it to improve how we hire. - Help us build the recruiting systems, standards, and practices that will scale with the company without lowering the bar. WHO YOU ARE - Business-minded. You want to understand the company, product, customers, and why each hire matters so you can recruit with context rather than from a job description. - Opinionated about talent. You’ve worked with exceptional people and have developed real pattern rec