Hiring: Senior Technical Recruiter Company: Sonatus Location: Sunnyvale, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-17 00:31:59 Employment Type: Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : Embedded Systems About the job Experience: •5+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience in fast-paced startup or high-growth technology environments, with ownership of complex, competitive engineering searches. Required Skills: •Strategically drive recruitment lifecycle for technical roles across AI/ML, software, embedded, systems, cloud, and related areas globally, ensuring an efficient, rigorous, and high-quality hiring process. •Lead intake and calibration sessions, translating business and technical requirements into clear candidate profiles, sourcing strategies, assessment criteria, and recruiting plans. •Serve as a trusted advisor, proactively identifying risks, challenging assumptions, and influencing hiring strategies through market insights, pipeline data, and candidate feedback. •Develop and execute creative, multi-channel sourcing strategies to engage high-caliber technical talent, continuously evaluating effectiveness and adjusting as needed. •Assess candidates against defined success criteria, including technical experience, scope, complexity, ownership, impact, communication, and motivation, while driving consistent, evidence-based evaluation. •Maintain accurate Greenhouse data and leverage recruiting metrics to identify risks, forecast outcomes, diagnose bottlenecks, and adjust strategy while ensuring compliance. Qualifications: •Proven ability to advise engineering leaders, influence hiring decisions, challenge assumptions, and provide data- and market-driven recommendations. •Demonstrated success developing multi-channel sourcing strategies and recruiting passive talent across competitive technical domains such as software, embedded systems, cloud, or AI/ML. •Strong technical curiosity and AI fluency, with the ability to quickly understand complex technical domains, engage credibly with candidates and engineering stakeholders, and thoughtfully leverage AI to improve recruiting processes, productivity, research, sourcing, analysis, and decision-making. •Demonstrated capacity to manage multiple complex searches while maintaining a strong candidate experience and effective stakeholder communication. •Excellent communication, interpersonal, and negotiation skills, with a track record of building strong candidate and hiring manager relationships. •Demonstrated capacity to work onsite at our Sunnyvale headquarters three days per week. •Health care plan (Medical, Dental & Vision) •Flexible and Dependent Care Expense program •Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D) •Unlimited paid time off per year, 14+ paid holidays Compensation: •$128,000 - $174,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!