The Challenge

When Amby partnered with Six Robotics in February 2025, the company had less than 20 employees and an ambitious target of growing to more than 100 employees within 18 months.

However, like many companies preparing for hyper scaling, Six Robotics was entering this growth phase without a dedicated people team. Additionally, a majority of the roles at Six Robotics were niche technical profiles within areas such as embedded software engineering, computer vision and autonomous systems development. The company’s security requirements narrowed the available talent pool even further, pushing us to get creative about recruitment.

With a scaling journey ahead of them, and each new employee contributing directly to the company’s strategic milestones, Six Robotics needed a partner that could deliver on immediate recruitment needs while simultaneously building the recruitment capacity and People infrastructure required for continued growth.

The Solution

Amby joined Six Robotics as an embedded recruitment and HR partner. The collaboration began with a discovery phase to map existing gaps, understand the company’s growth plans, and establish priorities for both recruitment and People operations. Clear objectives around areas such as cost-per-hire, time-to-hire, and candidate satisfaction were established early, creating a shared framework for measuring progress throughout the collaboration.

Recruitment processes and workflows were structured, hiring needs were mapped against the company’s growth plans, and clearer ways of defining and assessing what a great candidate looked like across roles were introduced. This included establishing a shared evaluation framework for more consistent and objective candidate assessment, alongside training for hiring managers in how to use the processes effectively.

As hiring accelerated, Amby scaled its own capacity alongside Six Robotics. At different stages of the collaboration, between three and five Amby consultants worked in parallel across open positions, helping the company manage periods with as many as almost 30 roles in a single quarter.

The recruitment scope covered a broad mix of specialist technical, operational, commercial, and leadership roles. Across engineering and technology, Amby supported hiring within software engineering, embedded software, computer vision, machine learning and AI, simulation, platform and DevOps, frontend and backend development, testing, security, technical documentation, mechanical and electrical engineering, and field application engineering. In parallel, the team supported hiring across product, project management, supply chain, finance, IT operations, business development, customer success, recruitment, and People and culture.

Alongside recruitment, the partnership expanded into HR to establish the People infrastructure needed for a rapidly growing organization. Together with Six Robotics, Amby improved employment contracts, an employee handbook, an applicant tracking system, a new career page, employer branding material, a company presentation, hiring manager training, travel guidelines, and a compensation structure with salary bands. Work was also initiated on relocation support, a formalized hiring roadmap, and candidate satisfaction measurement.

Our objective throughout the collaboration was never limited to filling roles in the short-term. It was always to build the processes, systems, and internal capabilities that Six Robotics needed to sustain long-term growth.

The Result

Over approximately 19 months, Amby supported Six Robotics in making 80 hires, including 26 hires in Q2 2026 alone. Despite operating in a highly specialized and internationally competitive talent market, the average cost per hire was NOK 107,000, below the NOK 120,000 target established for the engagement.

By the end of the collaboration in September 2026, Six Robotics had grown from a company of less than 20 employees into an organization of more than 100, supported by more structured recruitment processes, dedicated tooling, clearer assessment practices and a stronger People infrastructure.

An important part of our collaboration was to prepare Six Robotics to continue recruitment and people operations work internally. Six Robotics established its own recruitment team, and Amby worked closely with the new team to transfer both the processes and the knowledge behind them. Rather than simply handing over documentation and systems, the focus was on ensuring the internal team understood how the recruitment setup worked, why it had been designed that way, and how it could continue to evolve with the company.

What began as an ambitious recruitment challenge ultimately became a collaboration across recruitment, HR infrastructure and organizational scaling. By combining hands-on hiring with the development of the systems and capabilities behind it, Amby and Six Robotics built a recruitment and People foundation designed to support the company’s next chapter of growth.