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# Head of Talent at Rhoda AI

- **Company:** Rhoda AI
- **Location:** Mountain View, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-10-19
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-21
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/rhoda-ai/229c5250-7765-4f1f-8b9c-6ca974ca95ea

## Job description

At Rhoda AI, we’re building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. We own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware and robot systems to the infrastructure and state-of-the-art foundation world models that control our robots. Our robots are designed to be generalists capable of operating in complex, real-world environments and handling long-tail edge cases, made possible by our cutting edge research and end-to-end system design. We've raised over $450M and are investing aggressively in model research, infrastructure, hardware development, and manufacturing scale-up to make generalist robotics a reality. We’re looking for a Head of Talent to lead company-wide recruiting and build the team and capabilities that will support Rhoda’s next stage of growth. You’ll partner closely with our founders and functional leaders to identify hiring priorities, attract exceptional people, and turn recruiting into a lasting competitive advantage. This is a hands-on leadership role. You’ll personally drive our most important searches while building a strong internal recruiting team, developing sourcing capabilities, and establishing processes that help us move quickly without compromising our hiring bar.

## What You’ll Do

Talent Strategy & Leadership

- Own recruiting strategy and execution across AI research, software, hardware, operations, and business functions, translating company priorities into clear hiring plans.
- Partner with leadership and Finance on headcount planning, recruiting budgets, and resource allocation, bringing market insight and sound judgment to decisions about where and how to hire. Hands-On Recruiting & Closing
- Personally lead critical technical and leadership searches, from defining the role and mapping the market to building candidate relationships and closing offers.
- Work closely with hiring managers to communicate the opportunity, understand candidate motivations, and develop thoughtful closing strategies in highly competitive markets.

## Team Building & Sourcing

- Build, lead, and develop a high-performing talent team across sourcing, recruiting, and recruiting operations, adding capacity thoughtfully as the company grows.
- Establish strong internal sourcing capabilities through targeted outreach, referrals, research communities, and long-term relationships. Use external search partners selectively, with clear accountability for quality, results, and cost. Recruiting Operations & Hiring Quality
- Build consistent, efficient hiring processes, including role intake, interview design, evaluation criteria, interviewer training, timely decisions, and offer approvals.
- Own recruiting systems, workflows, and reporting. Use funnel conversion, time in stage, offer acceptance, source effectiveness, and hiring outcomes to identify bottlenecks and improve performance. Candidate Experience & Employer Brand
- Set a high standard for candidate experience, ensuring clear communication, thoughtful engagement, and a well-coordinated process from first contact through the transition to onboarding.
- Partner with Research, Engineering, and Marketing to communicate what makes Rhoda distinctive and build lasting relationships with the communities we hire from.

## What We’re Looking For

- 8+ years of recruiting experience, including experience leading a talent function or recruiting team at a high-growth technology company.
- A strong track record of personally sourcing and closing exceptional technical talent, including senior individual contributors and leaders in competitive markets.
- Experience building and developing recruiting teams, with a clear understanding of how sourcing, full-cycle recruiting, and recruiting operations work together.
- The ability to partner credibly with founders and technical leaders, translate ambiguous needs into well-defined searches, and challenge assumptions constructively.
- Strong operational judgment: you know how to build structure and accountability without adding unnecessary bureaucracy.
- Excellent communication, relationship-building, and negotiation skills, with the discretion to handle sensitive candidate and business information.
- A hands-on approach and a strong sense of ownership. You’re equally comfortable developing a hiring strategy, reaching out to a hard-to-reach candidate, and resolving a process bottleneck.

## Nice to Have (But Not Required)

- Experience recruiting for AI research, robotics, advanced hardware, or other deeply technical organizations, with established relationships in relevant talent communities.
- Experience scaling an internal recruiting function through a significant stage of company growth and improving the balance between direct sourcing and agency support.
- Familiarity with Ashby or similar recruiting platforms, recruiting analytics, and practical workflow automation.

## Why This Role

- Help build the team that turns advances in AI and robotics into systems that work in the real world.
- Work directly with founders and technical leaders, with meaningful influence over hiring priorities and how the company grows.
- Combine hands-on recruiting with the opportunity to shape a talent organization built around quality, speed, and strong candidate relationships.

## About Rhoda AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Rhoda AI builds robot foundation models that learn from internet-scale video to enable manipulation-capable robots to generalize in real-world industrial environments.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed + Series A; $680M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, CA, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Jagdeep Singh (CEO), Eric Chan (Chief Scientist), Changan Chen (Chief Research Officer), Andrew Wooten, Gordon Wetzstein (Scientific Advisor) [rhoda.ai/team](https://www.rhoda.ai/team)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Hardware
- **Target customers**: B2B – industrial enterprises in automotive, manufacturing, logistics, and e-commerce
- **Mission/purpose**: “Building at the frontier of embodied intelligence” and “Designing intelligence for the real world” – deploying general-purpose robot foundation models that adapt to the variability of commercial and industrial environments. [rhoda.ai](https://www.rhoda.ai/) | [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rhoda-ai)

## Products & Services
- **Rhoda Robot Platform (Hardware + Software)**: A turnkey robotic system with custom actuators (25kg rated, 40kg peak payload), safety-rated vision, wheel-base, and brakes in every actuator. The platform runs the **Direct Video Action** model, which pre-trains on over a million real-world videos and post-trains on task-specific robot data. Long-context windows enable single-shot learning from human demonstrations without retraining. [rhoda.ai](https://www.rhoda.ai/)
- **FutureVision Intelligence Layer**: A proprietary architecture that handles real-world industrial tasks autonomously by generalizing beyond conventional VLA pipelines. [rhoda.ai](https://www.rhoda.ai/)
- **Deployment Services**: End-to-end solutions for tasks such as returns processing, bearing decanting, container breakdown, and material transport in logistics and e-commerce facilities. [rhoda.ai](https://www.rhoda.ai/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding **$680M** – Seed round $67.4M (April 2024), Series A $162.6M (April 2025), and Series A $450M (March 2026) with 4 investors. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rhoda-ai)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not individually named in available sources; partners include customers in automotive, manufacturing, logistics, and e-commerce. [rhoda.ai](https://www.rhoda.ai/)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount growth of **+20% monthly** (LinkedIn reports 55 employees; Built In reports 73 employees – conflicting data). Talent sourced from companies like QuantumScape, Flexiv Robotics, Scale AI, Google, Meta, NVIDIA, and Stanford University. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rhoda-ai) | [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/rhoda-ai)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Direct Video Action architecture** with web-scale video pre-training gives a strong prior on motion, physics, and dynamics, enabling generalization beyond lab settings.
- **Custom high-performance actuators** (25kg rated, 40kg peak) with safety-rated brakes and vision – designed for 3+ years of continuous operation at rated payload.
- **Long-context in-context learning** allows the robot to perform tasks single-shot from human demonstrations without retraining.
- **Turnkey industrial deployments** that handle ambiguity and variability (e.g., debris, transparent bags, heavy boxes) – tasks customers initially believed could not be automated. [rhoda.ai](https://www.rhoda.ai/)

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling robot intelligence through a pre-training/post-training paradigm, moving from controlled labs to reliable production environments.
- Expanding commercial deployments across automotive, manufacturing, logistics, and e-commerce verticals.
- Pursuing a path to **physical AGI** by combining foundation models with custom hardware for real-world adaptability. [rhoda.ai](https://www.rhoda.ai/)

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Building at the frontier of embodied intelligence” – emphasis on hard problems, first-principles thinking, and category-defining systems. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rhoda-ai)
- **Work policy**: Hybrid workspace (employees combine remote and on-site work), with offices in Mountain View and Palo Alto, CA. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/rhoda-ai)
- **Engineering culture**: Strong research focus (Chief Research Officer, Chief Scientist, many research engineers/scientists). Recent job postings include Research Scientist, Robot Perception Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, Fullstack Engineer, and Product Manager. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/rhoda-ai)
- **Notable perks**: Not explicitly listed, but the company is well-funded ($680M) and at an early stage (founded 2024), offering significant growth opportunity and impact.

## Sources
1. [rhoda.ai](https://www.rhoda.ai/) – Company website (product, technology, commercial applications)
2. [rhoda.ai/careers](https://www.rhoda.ai/careers) – Careers page
3. [rhoda.ai/team](https://www.rhoda.ai/team) – Leadership team and co-founders
4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/rhoda-ai) – Built In profile (employee count, offices, job listings, hybrid policy)
5. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rhoda-ai) – LinkedIn company page (funding, headcount, executive list, talent sources)

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