Company Overview

Amperesand is reinventing how the world powers its most critical systems.

We are facing a once-in-a-generation opportunity for infrastructure disruption. Electricity demand is skyrocketing, driven by AI factories, electric vehicles, and modern industrial growth. Energy supply is shifting to incorporate a more diverse mix of resources – including solar, gas, and batteries – at a massive scale.

And yet the power infrastructure behind our latest mega-projects hasn’t meaningfully changed in nearly 100 years. Supply chains for today’s infrastructure equipment can’t match the pace and sophistication of critical energy projects. Amperesand is building hardware and software that rewrites this broken power infrastructure playbook to support a new era of energy abundance.

We’ve built a new class of intelligent, software-defined power infrastructure products leveraging a decade of advanced medium voltage Solid State Transformer research that’s now ready for commercial deployment.

Our products and solutions go far beyond the capabilities of traditional electrical equipment. We make power systems that are faster to deploy, dramatically smaller and more efficient, and capable of supporting modern, dynamic energy needs for tomorrow’s most demanding energy consumers.

Scalable in-house advanced manufacturing capability is our foundation for meeting timeline and quality expectation to serve infrastructure customers around the world.

Amperesand is led by breakthrough energy hardware development veterans and funded by top tier investors who share our vision of building a category-defining energy technology company.

With hubs in San Francisco, Reno, and Singapore, our global team is laser focused on building foundational technology to solve the most pressing problems in power infrastructure at scale.

Join us in building the power foundation of the future!

Role Summary

We’re hiring a Principal Talent Partner to lead hiring for our most senior and business-critical roles, including executive leadership, VP-level leaders, and principal-level individual contributor engineers.

This role is designed for a recruiter who thrives in high-stakes, high-touch environments - someone who can build deep trust with candidates, partner closely with C-Suite, and personally close complex offers. We do not use external recruiting agencies; this role replaces them.

Responsibilities:

Own end-to-end recruiting for:
Executive and VP-level leadership roles
Principal-level and staff-level IC engineers in highly technical domains
Partner directly with the CEO, founders, and senior leaders on search strategy, role definition, and candidate calibration
Deliver an exceptional candidate experience from first conversation through offer acceptance
Act as the primary closer for high-impact hires, managing:
Competing offers
Equity-heavy compensation discussions
Relocation, timing, and family considerations
Build and maintain long-term relationships with senior technical and leadership talent, including passive candidates
Design interview processes that are rigorous but efficient
Translate complex technical, organizational, and business context into compelling narratives for candidates
Provide real-time market insight and honest feedback to leadership throughout the hiring process
Uphold discretion, professionalism, and strong judgment in all candidate interactions

Qualifications:

8+ years of recruiting experience, including senior-level or executive hiring
Experience in deep tech, hardware, infrastructure, or highly technical environments
Proven ability to close senior candidates in competitive markets without agency support
Exceptional judgment, emotional intelligence, and executive presence
Comfortable operating with ambiguity in an early-stage environment
High attention to detail, confidentiality, and candidate care
Clear communicator who can translate complex technical and business contexts to candidates

Bonus Qualifications:

In-house experience at Series A-C startups
Experience recruiting in niche or emerging technical domains