Senior Technical Recruiter

Nscale • San Francisco, CA

20d • $160,000 - $210,000

About The Position

Nscale is seeking a Senior Technical Recruiter to lead end-to-end hiring for teams building its AI infrastructure platform. The recruiter will partner closely with engineering and product leaders to hire talent across cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, platform engineering, developer tooling, and open-source ecosystems.

This is a hands-on, high-impact role involving ownership of critical searches, delivery of market intelligence to inform hiring decisions, and building the teams that make Nscale’s GPU cloud faster, more reliable, and easier for customers to use. The role directly shapes the engineering and platform talent behind Nscale’s cloud, supporting growth with speed and quality.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, gained in-house and/or in a high-performing search environment.
• Demonstrated experience hiring software engineers and technical leaders for a Neocloud, hyperscaler, AI infrastructure company, cloud platform, or open-source software business.
• Strong understanding of technical talent markets in areas such as cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, Kubernetes, GPU/AI platforms, storage, networking, platform engineering, developer tools, or developer experience.
• Strong functional knowledge of the modern open-source AI infrastructure ecosystem, such as vLLM, Ray, PyTorch, DeepSpeed, Hugging Face TGI, or similar.
• Proven ability to recruit across a range of seniorities, including senior individual contributors and technical leadership roles.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, including the confidence to influence and constructively challenge senior technical leaders.
• Strong sourcing capability, including market mapping, talent research, targeted outreach, and building long-term candidate relationships.
• High standards for quality, process, and candidate experience, with comfort using structured and data-informed hiring practices.
• Ability to operate with pace, sound judgment, and ownership in a high-growth environment.

Nice To Haves

• Experience recruiting for AI infrastructure, GPU cloud, data centre software, developer platforms, or open-source communities.
• Familiarity with hiring technical talent across the USA and Europe, including location, compensation, and compliance complexity.
• Experience supporting rapid technical team growth while maintaining a high hiring bar.
• Experience partnering with compensation and people teams on levelling, offers, and market benchmarking.

Responsibilities

• Own full-cycle recruiting for technical roles, from intake and calibration through sourcing, assessment design, offer management, and closing.
• Partner with senior engineering, product, and infrastructure leaders to define talent needs, hiring plans, and compelling candidate value propositions.
• Proactively build and engage high-yield talent pipelines, with a strong focus on outbound sourcing within hard-to-reach engineering communities.
• Provide practical market insight on talent availability, compensation, competitor mapping, and realistic time-to-fill expectations.
• Design and continuously improve structured interview processes, including clear competencies, calibrated scorecards, and evidence-based debriefs.
• Develop creative sourcing strategies for highly technical, passive candidates in competitive markets.
• Deliver a timely, transparent, informed, and appropriately high-touch candidate experience.
• Use recruiting data and market feedback to influence hiring priorities and improve delivery over time.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits may be included in a competitive benefits package.
• Flexible paid time off.
• Parental leave.
• Retirement plan participation.
• The role may be eligible for bonus, equity, and/or commission programs.

What This Job Offers

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