AI Recruiter

Birdeye • Palo Alto, CA

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

Birdeye is seeking an AI/ML Technical Recruiter to help build the talent behind its next generation of AI-native products. The recruiter will partner closely with Engineering, AI/ML, and executive leadership to build teams advancing Birdeye’s AI strategy and support its evolution into an AI-native company. The role requires firsthand understanding of the AI talent landscape and experience recruiting specialized AI/ML talent within an AI-native SaaS company.

The recruiter will develop targeted sourcing strategies, advise hiring managers, and close sought-after candidates. They will own recruiting from talent mapping and sourcing through assessment, offer negotiation, and close, while using market intelligence and recruiting data to improve pipelines, processes, and hiring decisions. The role is based around Birdeye’s Palo Alto office, with work there required Tuesday through Thursday; flexible work-from-home options are also available.

Requirements

• 6+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, including substantial experience recruiting AI/ML talent.
• Experience recruiting at an AI-native company, ideally an AI-native SaaS business building and commercializing AI-powered products.
• Proven track record hiring specialized AI/ML talent, such as machine learning engineers, applied scientists, research engineers, LLM engineers, or AI infrastructure engineers.
• Strong understanding of the AI talent ecosystem and ability to distinguish specialized AI/ML recruiting from general software engineering recruiting.
• Demonstrated success building pipelines and closing highly sought-after technical candidates in competitive markets.
• Strong talent-mapping and sourcing capabilities, including proactively identifying candidates beyond inbound applicants and conventional recruiting channels.
• Ability to build credibility with technical leaders, understand nuanced hiring requirements, and influence decisions through market intelligence.
• Exceptional candidate management, communication, and closing skills.
• Data-driven recruiting approach and ability to manage multiple searches while maintaining a high bar for talent quality.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced environment where priorities evolve alongside technology and the business.
• Willingness to work from the Palo Alto, CA office Tuesday through Thursday.

Nice To Haves

• Experience recruiting for an AI-native SaaS company that has moved AI capabilities into production and commercialized them at scale.
• Established network across the AI/ML engineering community.
• Experience hiring talent specializing in LLMs, generative AI, agentic systems, model evaluation, inference, or AI infrastructure.
• Experience recruiting candidates from leading AI labs, AI startups, or high-growth AI product companies.
• Experience partnering directly with CTOs, VPs of Engineering, Heads of AI, and founders.
• Experience recruiting for teams building AI agents, autonomous workflows, or enterprise AI applications.
• Strong point of view on the skills, backgrounds, and signals that distinguish exceptional AI talent.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Engineering and AI/ML leadership to develop and execute hiring strategies for specialized talent across machine learning, applied AI, generative AI, LLMs, AI infrastructure, and related disciplines.
• Own the full recruiting lifecycle, from talent mapping and targeted sourcing through assessment, offer negotiation, and close.
• Build pipelines of AI/ML talent by identifying relevant companies, research communities, technical networks, and emerging talent pools.
• Develop an understanding of the AI talent market, including competing companies, candidate motivations, compensation trends, and skills needed to build production-grade AI products.
• Advise hiring managers on talent availability, role definition, candidate calibration, and hiring strategy.
• Create candidate engagement strategies that communicate Birdeye’s AI vision, technical challenges, and opportunity for customer impact.
• Build candidate relationships and close competitive searches through strong communication, thoughtful engagement, and effective offer management.
• Use recruiting data and market intelligence to evaluate pipeline health, identify bottlenecks, improve conversion, and inform hiring decisions.
• Improve technical assessment processes and candidate experiences in partnership with hiring teams.
• Collaborate with the broader Talent team to build scalable recruiting practices and raise the bar for hiring across Birdeye.

Benefits

• 100% employer-paid benefit plans available for employees, with multiple health plan options (HSA, PPO).
• Flexible PTO.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Flexible work-from-home options.
• Maternity and paternity leave.
• Employee Resource Groups.
• Opportunities in a dynamic and fast-growing organization.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed