Founding Head of Talent
Mountain View, CAFull-time$200–300K/yrPosted 1 day agoStill listed today
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Job overview
Atum Works is building a 3D lithography foundry and has traction for the semiconductor products its manufacturing approach enables. The Founding Head of Talent will work alongside the founders to define the team the company needs, find and win those people, and own recruiting strategy. This hands-on leadership role will build the systems and team to execute recruiting as Atum Works scales.
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Full job description
Founding Head of Talent Location: Mountain View, CA (On-site) Compensation: $200K–$300K depending on experience, plus generous early-employee equity. Generous benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k).
About Atum Works Lithography gave us the ability to make objects that sense, store, process, and transmit information. It enabled the modern world, but it has reached its limit. Instead of smaller features, the semiconductor industry now builds complexity into the third dimension, layer-by-layer, in exchange for growing process cost, complexity and time. Atum Works is building the first 3D lithography foundry. We have developed new manufacturing paradigms to directly pattern a range of materials in 3D, over large areas, at um resolution. We have meaningful traction for the semiconductor products this enables. If scaled successfully, we expect 3D lithography will transform manufacturing as profoundly as planar lithography transformed electronics. We are a small team of technologists, backed by Spark, Thrive, GC, Ribbit, Lux, SVAngel, Allen & Co., Lachy Groom, Eric Schmidt, Jeff Dean, Ram Shriram, and others.
Position Summary There are maybe a few thousand people alive who can build what we are building. You will work alongside the founders to define the team Atum needs, then find and win those people. You will own Atum’s recruiting strategy and build the systems and team to execute it as we scale. This is a hands-on leadership role.
Competencies
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Experience identifying, assembling, and working alongside world-class talent.
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Experience mapping and networking in specialized technical communities.
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Background in Physics, Chemistry, Engineering, or demonstrated ability to pick up technical subjects.
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Discretion with sensitive information and the ability to communicate credibly with specialists.
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Track record of engaging and closing hard-to-reach individuals.
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Comfort doing business abroad.
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Excellent judgment about people.
Bonus: experience in physical science research, deep tech, semiconductor, or advanced manufacturing.
Equal Opportunity Employer We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of any protected characteristic under applicable federal, state, or local laws.
How this job compares
Set against the 2,871 open Talent Acquisition jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 31, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$200–300K/yr
- California median$135–189K/yr384 salary ranges
- US median$97–158K/yr1,593 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $250K, is 56% above the California median midpoint ($160K) — in the top quarter of Talent Acquisition salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 557 open Talent Acquisition jobs in California and 2,871 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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- Experience
- Talent Acquisition postings that state a minimum ask for 4 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 5 years (2,253 postings).
- Education
- 406 of the 2,871 open Talent Acquisition jobs (14%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 31, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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