Mach9 builds software for Spatial Intelligence, transforming how civil engineering teams model, design, build, and maintain the physical world.
Our first product, 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.
ResponsibilitiesOwn 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
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
Skills Required
- 5-7 years of full-cycle recruiting experience
- Technical recruiting experience
- At least one stint at a startup
- Comfortable with modern recruiting tools (ATS platforms like Ashby, sourcing tools, LinkedIn Recruiter)
- Ability to build relationships quickly across all levels (candidates, hiring managers, founders)
- Creative sourcer with tenacity to find and follow up with overlooked candidates
- Highly organized with strong attention to detail; able to manage multiple open roles simultaneously
- Clear, direct communicator in writing and conversation; able to sell roles and push back with hiring managers
What We Do
Mach9 is at the forefront of leveraging advanced machine learning and computer vision techniques to transform raw geospatial data into actionable insights to help civil engineers build and maintain infrastructure globally. Our first product, Mach9 Digital Surveyor, helps surveyors automatically extract features from large-scale imagery and 3D datasets over 30x faster than today's manual and labor-intensive drafting workflows, accelerating the development of cost-effective and sustainable transportation and utility infrastructure. Mach9 supports leading asset owners and engineering and construction organizations globally solve the toughest engineering design, mission planning, and asset management problems.
