R&D Interim recruiter

Your Mission:

To support our ambitious product milestones and eliminate scaling bottlenecks, we are seeking two dynamic, results-oriented Interim Recruiters to supercharge our R&D talent acquisition engine. In this high-impact role, you will take full operational ownership of the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle for our most complex, difficult-to-fill engineering roles. Your primary focus will be on identifying, engaging, and landing elite international talent across FPGA Engineering, Embedded Software/Firmware Engineering, Electrical/Hardware Engineering, and Core Software Engineering. Acting as a strategic talent advisor to our technical team leads, you will play a critical role in building the engineering infrastructure required to transition quantum computing from foundational research to data center deployment.

Key Responsibilities

Full-Lifecycle Recruitment & Sourcing:

• Execute full-lifecycle recruitment processes for complex, highly specialized R&D and engineering roles, collaborating closely with team leads from initial intake to candidate selection.

• Develop and implement targeted, proactive multi-channel sourcing strategies that combine advanced headhunting, passive talent engagement, and application management.

• Actively map out and tap into global talent pools within highly competitive deep-tech domains, targeting candidates from industries like semiconductors, photonics, and high-performance computing.

Stakeholder Collaboration & Advisory:

• Act as a trusted advisor to our engineering team leads, providing regular operational updates and expertise on market dynamics, candidate availability, and sourcing frameworks.

• Conduct in-depth, competency-based interviews to evaluate candidates' elite technical capabilities and alignment with Qblox’s core values of ownership, accountability, and continuous change.

• Guide candidates smoothly through the evaluation process, providing transparent feedback and ensuring a positive, world-class candidate experience.

Operational Discipline & Ecosystem Branding:

• Maintain immaculate data hygiene within our applicant tracking system (ATS) and CRM to support recruitment analytics, pipeline velocity tracking, and accurate forecasting.

• Partner closely with HR Operations and our people team to coordinate seamless onboarding, contract compliance, and local alignments.

• Ensure strict compliance with recruitment legal requirements, including GDPR standards and fair, unbiased, and inclusive hiring practices.

• Support employer branding initiatives, coordinate relationships with local technical universities, and represent Qblox at local career fairs or technical ecosystem events.

What you bring:

• Technical Recruiting Track Record: Minimum of three (3) years of recruitment experience (Medior) or five (5) or more years (Senior), with at least one year within a dedicated corporate or fast-growing high-tech scale-up environment.

• Deep-Tech Domain Expertise: Proven success in sourcing and closing difficult-to-fill engineering positions across FPGA design, firmware development, embedded software, mixed-signal/analog circuit design, and software systems.

• International Sourcing Mastery: Successful experience in executing international recruitment cycles, utilizing multiple passive sourcing tools, and building deep pipelines of niche talent.

• Education & Experience: Master’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and ideally having a deep-tech corporate recruitment experience.

Core Competencies:

• Technical Affinity: Exceptional ability to grasp multi-disciplinary engineering concepts, enabling you to carry out credible and sophisticated conversations with PhD-level physicists and expert developers.

• Scale-Up Adaptability: Thrives under the ambiguity and speed of a hyper-growth environment; capable of "building the plane while flying it" as we professionalize our internal processes.

• Ownership & Accountability: A self-starting professional who takes total personal ownership as the process owner over your allocated recruitment cycles, delivering results with high transparency.

• Structured Communication & Organizing: Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, with the meticulous organizational capability to track and advance multiple hiring pipelines simultaneously.

Why join Qblox?:

• High Impact: You will shape the human blueprint for a global leader in a hyper-growth industry, directly recruiting the people who build the infrastructure of the next computing revolution.

• Invigorating Team Dynamic: Work alongside a highly skilled, international, and cross-functional group of professionals in an open, curious, and collaborative working culture.

Acquisition in response to our vacancies by recruitment agencies is not appreciated.