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Our technology replaces decades of guesswork in resource exploration with weeks of high-accuracy insight, helping the world find the critical minerals it needs for the energy transition. We're backed by BHP Ventures, In-Q-Tel, Wavemaker, and others who bet early on paradigm shifts, and we're scaling operations across Singapore, Australia, and North America.\nThis is deep tech at its most tangible: physics that goes into the field, onto moving vehicles and drones, and solves billion-dollar problems underground.\nThe Role\nWe're hiring a Talent Lead to find and close the people who will define Atomionics' next phase. This isn't a \"manage the recruiting team and run the pipeline\" role. We already have a team who owns inbound and coordination. What we need is a hunter: someone who can personally find and close the talent that doesn't exist in normal pools.\nThe people we want to hire-quantum physicists, precision mechanical engineers from defence contractors, geophysics PhDs, AI researchers from frontier labs-aren't on LinkedIn. They don't need a job. They're heads-down at organisations that pay well and where they have credibility.\nConvincing them to leave for a Singapore deep-tech startup takes more than a polished outreach email. It takes understanding what motivates them, finding them where they actually are, and building a mission and equity narrative that holds up under scrutiny.\nWhat You Will Do\nHunt, don't process. You'll personally run sourcing for hyper-niche searches: Boolean, Google Scholar, citation chains, conference attendee lists, referral chains. This is hands-on individual contributor work. The volume is low; the depth is everything.\nMap the landscape. For every senior hire, you'll figure out where the right people actually work, including in research groups, national labs, defence contractors, and second- or third tier companies adjacent to the obvious targets. The best mechanical engineer for us isn't necessarily at SpaceX.\nSell the mission, not the salary. You'll be the person who has that conversation with a candidate earning materially more than we can offer in cash and makes it land. The narrative you'll use is built in close partnership with the Chief of Staff. Your job is to know it deeply enough to make it feel real, especially when it comes to equity with candidates for whom ESOPs are unfamiliar territory.\nGet close enough to the work to be credible. You'll partner with founders and technical leads to understand each role deeply enough to engage a candidate the way another scientist or engineer would. You won't be the technical interviewer, but you'll be the first technical feeling conversation they have with us.\nBuild sourcing infrastructure for the long term. University relationships, communities, employer-brand initiatives. You'll work hand-in-hand with the marketing team-at Atomionics, hiring and brand are the same conversation.\nShape how we hire globally. As Atomionics expands into Australia, India, and the US, you'll build the talent strategy for each market, mapping where the right people are, how they need to be approached differently, and what the Atomionics pitch looks like in each context.\nWhat We're Looking For\nMust Have\nA track record of personally hunting and closing hyper-niche technical talent. Boutique executive search, in-house recruiting at a frontier deep-tech/defence/national lab/research organisation, or similar. Resume-volume and LinkedIn-driven recruiting isn't the profile.\nAn individual contributor at heart. You may have led teams in the past, but you still get satisfaction from running a search yourself and personally closing a hard hire.\nThe ability to talk credibly to a quantum physicist or an INS engineer-not because you are one, but because you've done the homework to be taken seriously by one.\nExperience closing candidates on mission, autonomy, and equity rather than cash. You understand the conversation that needs to happen with someone earning materially more than your offer.\nComfort operating with minimal infrastructure, a small budget, and ambiguity. You don't need a playbook.\nTaste. You can tell the difference between a strong resume and an exceptional person.\nGood to Have\nDirect experience hiring in quantum, photonics, geophysics, AI/ML research, or precision instrumentation.\nFamiliarity with research-driven sourcing tools-Google Scholar, citation graphs, academic conference circuits.\nExperience structuring offers in international contexts, particularly across Asia, Australia, and the US.\nPrior work at a Series A or B startup where the recruiting function was being built from scratch rather than maintained.\nWho Thrives Here\nThis role suits someone who has spent years getting good at finding people other recruiters couldn't, and is now looking for a small, high-stakes environment where every hire matters. The volume is low. The bar is unforgiving. There's no team to manage and no playbook to follow-just a list of brilliant people in odd corners of the world, and the question of how you're going to convince them to come build something that hasn't existed before.\nIf you read the brief above and your first instinct was to think about specific people you've already met who might fit, we'd like to hear from you.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5342,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Quantum Science & Computing","Sensors & Transducers"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-14T07:44:02Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":26,"reasons":["conf:2","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-15T04:34:02Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/atomionics-talent-lead","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/atomionics-talent-lead.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-15T04:34:02Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":6636,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-16T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":174974},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=174974"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fatomionics-talent-lead"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fatomionics-talent-lead"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fatomionics-talent-lead"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/atomionics-talent-lead\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fatomionics-talent-lead"}]}