How to apply for Senior Technical Recruiter

About Fuse Energy

Fuse Energy is an energy startup building a fully integrated energy company, from solar and batteries to hardware, grid infrastructure, real-time power trading, and in-home distributed energy. It has raised over $200M from investors including Balderton, Lakestar, Accel, Creandum, Lowercarbon, Ribbit, 20VC, Hummingbird, and Collaborative Fund, with angels like Nico Rosberg and GPs behind Meta, Revolut, Spotify, and Uber. The company sells directly to consumers to cut out the middleman and pass savings on to customers.

About the role

This Senior Technical Recruiter owns full-cycle hiring across engineering, hardware, AI, and quant, and partners closely with hiring managers to meet Fuse Energy's growth plans. The role requires tailored sourcing from high-growth tech companies, trading firms, hedge funds, and other elite technical organizations, plus screening for both technical excellence and cultural fit.

A typical day

A typical day includes sourcing passive candidates from technical organizations, screening them for technical excellence and cultural fit, and meeting with hiring managers to align on role requirements and pipeline progress. You may also manage interview loops, close candidates, and adjust sourcing strategies based on feedback from engineering, AI, hardware, and quant teams. Because the company is remote and fast-moving, expect frequent written updates and coordination across US time zones.

Who Fuse Energy is looking for

• Has full-cycle technical recruiting experience, ideally in-house at a high-growth startup, trading firm, or hedge fund, and has hired software engineers, AI researchers, quants, or data scientists.
• Can build tailored sourcing strategies for hard-to-fill technical roles and engage passive candidates from elite organizations.
• Can screen for technical depth without being an engineer, and can assess cultural fit in a first-principles, fast-moving environment.
• Is comfortable working remotely across US time zones and partnering directly with hiring managers on ambitious growth plans.

Tips for this application

• Quantify your technical hiring results in your resume: number of engineering, AI, quant, or data science hires, time-to-fill, offer acceptance rate, and the types of companies you sourced from.
• Name the specific technical talent pools you have recruited from, such as high-growth tech companies, trading firms, hedge funds, or other elite technical organizations, because the job description lists these explicitly.
• Show how you tailor sourcing strategies for different technical roles. Give one or two concrete examples, such as how you sourced a quant versus a hardware engineer.
• Mention any experience recruiting in energy, climate, hardware, or deep tech, since Fuse Energy builds solar, batteries, hardware, and grid infrastructure.
• Address remote work directly. State your US location, time zone, and experience working with distributed hiring teams.

What to cover in your cover letter

Explain why you want to recruit for a fully integrated energy company that combines solar, batteries, hardware, grid infrastructure, real-time power trading, and AI. Describe your full-cycle technical recruiting experience and the specific talent pools you have sourced from, such as high-growth tech companies, trading firms, or hedge funds. Give an example of a tailored sourcing strategy you built for a hard technical role. Show how you partner with hiring managers to meet growth plans.

Research before applying

• Read Fuse Energy's public materials on its mission to make energy abundant and affordable, and its plan to develop solar, batteries, hardware, grid infrastructure, real-time power trading, and distributed energy in homes.
• Review the investor list and strategic angels, including Balderton, Lakestar, Accel, Creandum, Lowercarbon, Ribbit, 20VC, Hummingbird, Collaborative Fund, Nico Rosberg, and GPs behind Meta, Revolut, Spotify, and Uber.
• Research the technical talent market for energy, hardware, AI, and quant roles. Identify which trading firms, hedge funds, and high-growth tech companies Fuse Energy would likely target.
• Check Fuse Energy's careers page and any public interviews with its founders or team to understand its first-principles approach and current hiring priorities.

Likely interview topics

Based on the job description, expect questions about:

• How would you build a sourcing strategy for a senior quant or AI researcher who is not actively looking and works at a top trading firm or hedge fund?
• Walk through a full-cycle technical hire you made, from intake meeting to close. What did you do to assess both technical excellence and cultural fit?
• How do you screen for technical excellence when you are not an engineer? What signals do you look for in software engineering, AI, hardware, and quant candidates?
• Fuse Energy sells directly to consumers and builds its own hardware, grid infrastructure, and trading systems. How would you explain the company to a passive candidate who has never heard of it?
• How do you partner with hiring managers to set realistic timelines and keep a high-volume technical hiring pipeline moving in a remote environment?

Common mistakes to avoid

• Sending a generic recruiting resume that lists roles but does not name the specific technical talent pools you have sourced from, such as trading firms, hedge funds, or high-growth tech companies.
• Claiming you can assess technical skills without giving concrete examples of how you screen software engineers, AI researchers, hardware engineers, or quants.
• Ignoring the remote US aspect. Do not apply without stating your location, time zone, and ability to work with a distributed team.