Founding Technical Recruiter
About The Position
We’re looking for our Founding Technical Recruiter to help build one of the strongest engineering teams in AI. You’ll partner directly with founders and engineering leaders to hire exceptional engineers across infrastructure, AI/ML, recommendation systems, data, and platform engineering. This is a full-cycle recruiting role, but sourcing is the heart of the job. You’ll spend your time identifying talent others miss, building relationships with world-class engineers, and helping us win competitive searches. Beyond recruiting, you’ll become an expert on the AI talent landscape—mapping companies, researching technical organizations, and developing the market intelligence that shapes our hiring strategy.
Requirements
- 3–10 years of experience recruiting technical talent
- Experience sourcing and closing senior software engineers at startups or leading technology companies
- Can confidently evaluate technical backgrounds across infrastructure, distributed systems, AI/ML, recommendation systems, backend, and platform engineering
- Love outbound recruiting and proactively building relationships with exceptional talent
- Highly competitive, move with urgency, and enjoy solving difficult hiring problems
- Exceptional communicator who earns trust with both candidates and hiring managers
- Take ownership and thrive in a high-expectation, early-stage environment
Nice To Haves
- Experience recruiting for AI, ML, recommendation systems, or infrastructure engineering teams
- Experience building market maps, competitive intelligence, and talent research from scratch
- Strong understanding of modern AI tools and how they can improve recruiting workflows
- Experience hiring engineers from companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google DeepMind, NVIDIA, xAI, Roblox, TikTok, or other leading AI and consumer technology companies
Responsibilities
- Own full-cycle recruiting for technical roles from sourcing through offer close
- Build outbound pipelines for exceptional engineering talent
- Partner closely with founders and hiring managers on hiring strategy
- Research companies, technical teams, and talent markets to identify high-impact candidates
- Build competitive talent maps and hiring intelligence to inform recruiting strategy
- Deliver an exceptional candidate experience throughout the hiring process
- Continuously improve recruiting workflows using AI and automation where it creates leverage
Benefits
- Competitive base + equity + bonus
- Health, dental, and vision coverage
- Lunch provided daily
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
