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.
Flexible & Modern Ecosystem:
Enjoy flexible working hours, hybrid options, and comprehensive benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, a favorable pension scheme, free Friday lunches, and company-sponsored retreats.
Acquisition in response to our vacancies by recruitment agencies is not appreciated.
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