Talent Engineer

Trajectory • San Francisco, CA

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About The Position

Trajectory is hiring a Talent Engineer to design the operating system for how they find outliers, assess their fit for Trajectory, and convince them to join. The best talent requires concerted time and effort throughout the recruiting process. This role requires someone who takes a first-principles, engineering mindset to talent to make the unscalable scalable, and creates new ways to hire exceptional people at speed, and is personally the person they meet.

Requirements

• Systems thinker who turns ambiguous processes into clear decisions, processes, execution, and automation.
• Goes the last mile: Finding and closing talent means hosting tailored events, identifying thoughtful gifts for candidates, and breaking process to move the needle.
• Has taste for talent in technical and unusual roles. Can tell a polished, recruiter-shaped candidate from someone who will actually do the work.
• Excellent communicator: Builds trust quickly, conveys context clearly, and adapts message to candidates, founders, and teammates without losing precision.
• Metrics-driven: Defines the measures that matter across the recruiting funnel, inspects conversion, speed, and quality, and uses data to decide what to improve next.
• AI-pilled: Experience with Claude Code to build out dashboards and automations, or Grok Bot to streamline comms and outreach.
• Highly proactive and low ego.

Responsibilities

• Build the talent operating system: Design how we identify exceptional people, keep them engaged, and attract them to Trajectory.
• Build the systems that keep someone in Trajectory’s orbit (socials, coffee chats, intros) and encode scalable context so we can tailor our process to best fit what candidates our looking for.
• Design an efficient interview pipeline that can go from first intro to offer in the shortest possible time.
• Operate a talent machine: Seek out the best talent in the world, from campuses, talent mapping, and outreach.
• Work directly with the founders to go the unscalable last mile for every candidate, from the beginning of the process all the way to closing.
• Systematize going to and hosting events: board game nights, competitions, hikes, dinners.

What This Job Offers

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