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title: 'Founding Recruiting Lead at Mach9'
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# Founding Recruiting Lead at Mach9

- **Company:** Mach9
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-06-18
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mach9/00ba5fa5-4ec8-44d1-815a-88f4a3934598

## Job description

Mach9 builds software for Spatial Intelligence, transforming how civil engineering teams model, design, build, and maintain the physical world. Our first [product](https://www.mach9.io/news/mach9-unveils-digital-surveyor-2-a-new-standard-for-lidar-feature-extraction), Mach9 Digital Surveyor, uses AI to automate manual surveying workflows by extracting infrastructure features like signs, curbs, lane markings, and utility poles from large-scale geospatial data. With major customers across transportation, utilities, engineering, and infrastructure, Mach9 is growing quickly and building the team that will define the future of software for the physical world. As Mach9’s Founding Recruiting Lead, you will build the talent function from scratch and help define how Mach9 attracts, evaluates, and closes exceptional talent. This is a highly cross-functional, full-cycle recruiting role spanning sourcing, candidate engagement, interview process management, and closing across engineering, product, go-to-market, and operations. You will work closely with the CEO, CTO, and broader leadership team to define recruiting strategy, build scalable recruiting infrastructure, shape hiring processes, and help make critical decisions about how Mach9 identifies, evaluates, and closes exceptional talent.

## Responsibilities

- Own full-cycle recruiting across technical and non-technical roles: Sourcing, coordinating, and closing.
- Own the candidate experience end-to-end: Every touchpoint, every piece of feedback, every offer call; we want every person who goes through our process to walk away excited about what we're building, whether or not they join
- Build the recruiting infrastructure from scratch: ATS, interview rubrics, comp calibration, hiring manager alignment, then keep improving it as we grow
- Partner closely with hiring managers: Deep calibration on what we're looking for, building interview loops that actually test for the right things, etc.
- Track the data that matters: Passthrough rates, time-to-fill, offer acceptance rates. Use it to make better decisions, not just report numbers
- Own our recruiting brand: Job descriptions, how we show up externally, and the story we tell about what we're building and why it matters
- Own recruiting strategy alongside the founders: Which roles to prioritize, how to think about team composition, and how hiring decisions today shape the company six months from now

## Requirements

- 5–7 years of full-cycle recruiting experience; technical recruiting background is a strong plus, as is at least one stint at a startup
- Comfortable with modern recruiting tools (ATS platforms like Ashby, sourcing tools, LinkedIn Recruiter)
- Builds relationships quickly across all levels (candidates, hiring managers, founders) and adjusts communication style accordingly
- Creative sourcer who finds candidates others overlook, and tenacious enough to follow through
- Highly organized with strong attention to detail; can run multiple open roles across different functions simultaneously without things falling through the cracks
- Clear, direct communicator in writing and in conversation- equally comfortable selling a candidate on the role and pushing back on a hiring manager

## About Mach9

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Mach9 builds AI-native CAD software that automatically transforms LiDAR point clouds into engineering-grade 3D maps, accelerating infrastructure design and surveying workflows.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Alexander Baikovitz (CEO), Zachary Sussman (CTO), Haowen Shi, Michael M. – four researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute.

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Civil infrastructure, surveying & geospatial services, transportation, telecom, utilities, architecture/engineering/construction (AEC).
- **Target customers**: B2B. Enterprise clients include top engineering firms (Langan, Olsson, Woolpert, HDR, Michael Baker International), major state Departments of Transportation (DOTs), and utility companies.
- **Mission/purpose**: "Accelerate how teams model and understand the world" – providing the fastest, most accurate automated feature-extraction technology for infrastructure projects.

## Products & Services
- **Digital Surveyor (DS2)**: AI-native, web-based CAD platform for automated feature extraction from LiDAR point clouds. Offers AI-assisted extraction (curbs, pavement edges, guardrails, utility poles), manual tools, and direct export to AutoCAD, MicroStation, and ESRI. Data-agnostic ingest pipeline supports scanners from RIEGL, Trimble, Leica, NavVis. Type: SaaS.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – **USD $14,425,000** (as of early 2026).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (Summer 2021 batch), Quiet Capital (led $12M Seed round, Nov 2024), Tiger Global Management (led $2.3M Seed round, Dec 2021), and top executives from Cruise, Autodesk, Adobe, and DoorDash as advisors/investors.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount of 30 employees (LinkedIn, Apr 2026) with +32.1% yearly growth; monthly job posting growth +66.7% year-over-year; trusted by leading engineering firms and state DOTs; launched Digital Surveyor 2 in March 2026; featured in Geo Week News and YC blog.

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-native CAD workflow**: Unlike traditional manual drafting, DS2's AI "drafts with you" – learning from user edits to improve suggestions in real time, cutting manual drafting time by up to 96×.
- **Field-to-finish in one environment**: No need to switch between preprocessing, extraction, and CAD tools – all done in a single web-based platform.
- **Strong research roots**: Built on decades of research from Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, giving a deep technical moat in computer vision and geospatial ML.
- **Designed for surveyors**: Intuitive UI that lets domain experts (not just CAD specialists) be productive on day one.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale GTM and engineering**: Active hiring across sales (Account Executive, Founding Marketer), engineering (ML Infrastructure Engineer, Perception Software Engineer, Head of Product Engineering), and operations (Solutions Consultant, QA Survey Technician).
- **Expand into new verticals**: Targeting electric/telecom utilities, data centers, and broader infrastructure beyond transportation.
- **Product evolution**: Continuously improving AI accuracy and automation, with a focus on trust and user control (as highlighted in the DS2 launch).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Fast-paced, customer-obsessed, engineering-first environment. Values: "work fast, iterate with customer feedback, never compromise on excellence."
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: HQ in San Francisco; some roles are "Remote / Remote (US)" per YC job listings. Likely hybrid with in-office presence for SF-based roles.
- **Perks & Benefits**: Health, vision, dental insurance; paid parental leave; flexible time off; equity package for all full-time employees; company 401(k); relocation assistance; catered lunches & paid dinner; company & team events; dog-friendly office.
- **Engineering culture**: Deep technical challenges at the intersection of AI, geospatial, computer graphics, and infrastructure. Opportunity to work on hard problems that "unlock billions in value for customers."

## Sources
1. [mach9.ai/careers](https://mach9.ai/careers)
2. [mach9.ai](https://www.mach9.ai/)
3. [mach9.ai/about](https://www.mach9.ai/about)
4. [ycombinator.com/companies/mach9](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/mach9)
5. [linkedin.com/company/mach9geo](https://www.linkedin.com/company/mach9geo)

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