Recruiting and HR Manager

Mavria’s mission is to build the industrial capacity America needs to lead in AI. We believe that sustaining America’s AI leadership requires an unprecedented expansion of power, manufacturing, supply chains and physical infrastructure.

Our founders are serial entrepreneurs who met at the U.S. Department of Energy, working on some of the country’s hardest energy and infrastructure projects. There, they saw a widening gap: AI labs and cloud providers were racing to scale compute, while the infrastructure underneath them was still built one custom project at a time, on timelines measured in years.

We founded Mavria to close that gap. We are building to industrialize intelligence: turning the physical infrastructure AI runs on into products we manufacture, deploy and improve with every build.

We’re starting with data centers. Our first product, Terrain, is a factory-built data center platform. Terrain 01 is being built in Houston now, and we’ve raised $130M as of October 2026 to accelerate our roadmap.

Terrain is our first product, not the limit of our ambition. We intend to eliminate the physical bottlenecks that constrain American AI leadership and build one of the foundational infrastructure companies of the AI era.

At Mavria, three principles guide how we work:

• Ambition: We want to build a generational company. To do that, we build capabilities, not just products. Terrain is our first product, not our last – and we seek to eliminate strategic bottlenecks across the entire AI supply chain.

• Urgency: AI moves in weeks, while infrastructure tends to move in years. We match the frontier’s pace by making decisions quickly, building in parallel and securing critical supply ahead of demand. We surface problems early and never compromise on safety or engineering rigor.

• Ownership: When we say we’ll do something, we do it. Keeping our word is how we stand apart, and taking radical ownership over our scope and our domain is how we build trust – internally and externally – while moving fast.

As our Recruiting and HR Manager, you’ll run the hiring engine that builds Mavria. Recruiting is the majority of this role: we’re hiring across engineering, manufacturing, site development and operations, and we partner with external search firms to find candidates. You’ll own everything else: managing our agencies, running our hiring process from intake to close, and getting candidates from first interview to signed offer and first day. You’ll also build our HR function as the company grows. You’ll report to our CFO. You will:

• Be a hiring partner: Run intake with hiring managers for each new role, write job descriptions and postings, brief our search firms on each search, and hold them to agreed terms, timelines and candidate quality.

• Own the hiring process: Run our applicant tracking system as the system of record for every role, keep interview loops structured and on schedule, drive timely hiring decisions, and take candidates through offer, negotiation, background check and close.

• Set new employees up for success: Make sure every new hire starts with what they need and a positive first experience at Mavria. Own onboarding from signed offer through the first months, so new employees are productive, connected to the team and clear on what’s expected of them.

• Run HR operations: Administer benefits and serve as the day-to-day contact with our broker and carriers, keep employee records current in our HR system, and coordinate employee changes with Finance for payroll.

• Keep us compliant: Make sure our employment practices meet federal and state requirements as we hire across multiple states.

• Own employee relations: Be the first point of contact for employee questions and concerns, handle issues with discretion, and escalate when needed.

• Build the HR function: Assess what Mavria needs from HR as we grow, decide what the function should do and how it should run, and build it AI-first, using AI to automate routine work and keep hiring and HR operations efficient.

• Be a positive People presence: Work on-site at our Woodlands office and shape the day-to-day experience for our team.

For this role, we’re looking for a recruiting-focused HR professional with the following qualities:

• Grounded in recruiting: You have 4+ years in recruiting, talent acquisition, or an HR role with significant recruiting responsibility, including hiring for technical roles and running an applicant tracking system as the system of record.

• Experienced with agencies: You’ve managed external search firms. You’ve set expectations, negotiated fees and terms, and held partners accountable for results.

• A builder: You’ve built or scaled an HR or recruiting function at an early-stage company, and you’re comfortable deciding what to build with little existing structure.

• AI-first: You use AI tools every day and have used them to automate or streamline recruiting or HR work. You look for the most efficient way to get something done.

• Solid on HR fundamentals: You have working knowledge of onboarding, benefits administration and US employment compliance, including multi-state requirements.

Hiring experience in data centers, power and utilities, energy, EPC and construction, manufacturing, or heavy industry is especially relevant, as is hands-on experience with our People toolstack (Rippling and Ashby). We value ability over years or titles.

To apply: Share your background and an example of a hiring or HR process you built or improved, including the tools or AI you used.

• Competitive total compensation package

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance is 100% paid for the employee

• Retirement Plan with a 3.5% company match

• Flexible time off

Mavria is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Mavria will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with applicable law.