Technical Recruiter

AfterQuery • San Francisco, CA

4d • Onsite

About The Position

As one of our first recruiting hires, you’ll help build the technical team shaping the future of frontier AI data infrastructure. You’ll own recruiting for engineering and technical roles end-to-end, partner directly with the founders, and help define the hiring systems, candidate experience, and talent bar from day one. AfterQuery is a research lab investigating the boundaries and capabilities of artificial intelligence through novel datasets and experimentation. Our customers are foundation model labs, and we serve all of the frontier AI labs. We are based in San Francisco, CA, and have raised funding from top investors, including Altos, Y Combinator, BoxGroup, ex-partners from Lightspeed and Index Ventures, and senior leadership at Google DeepMind and Meta GenAI. We raised a 30M series A at a 300M valuation just under 16 months after starting and have reached a 100M annual run rate in the same time frame. Our founding team brings backgrounds from Jane Street, Meta, Citadel Securities, Google, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Silver Lake, BAIR, and SAIL.

Requirements

• 1+ years of experience in technical recruiting, ideally at a high-growth startup, AI company, top tech company, or technical recruiting agency.
• Proven ability to source, engage, and close strong engineering candidates in competitive markets.
• Strong understanding of technical roles across software engineering, infrastructure, full-stack, applied AI, and systems/product engineering.
• Experience building outbound sourcing pipelines from scratch.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong judgment on candidate quality, calibration, culture fit, and hiring urgency.
• High agency, strong ownership, and comfort operating in a fast-moving startup environment.
• Experience partnering directly with founders, executives, or senior hiring managers.

Nice To Haves

• Experience recruiting for AI, ML, data infrastructure, developer tools, quant, or frontier technology companies.
• Strong network across engineering, AI, startup, university, or quant communities.
• Experience hiring founding engineers, senior engineers, infrastructure engineers, or other hard-to-close technical talent.
• Comfortable with LinkedIn Recruiter, ATS systems, sourcing tools, email sequencing tools, and AI-assisted recruiting workflows.
• Experience improving interview processes, scorecards, calibration systems, or candidate experience.
• Startup experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own full-cycle recruiting for technical roles, including software engineering, infrastructure, applied AI, full-stack, and product engineering.
• Build high-quality outbound sourcing pipelines for top technical talent.
• Source candidates from AI labs, high-growth startups, big tech, quant firms, and elite universities.
• Partner with founders and hiring managers to define role requirements, interview loops, scorecards, and hiring strategy.
• Run candidate processes end-to-end, including outreach, screens, coordination, feedback collection, offer support, and closing.
• Create a high-touch candidate experience that reflects AfterQuery’s bar, speed, and culture.
• Track and improve recruiting funnel metrics, including response rates, pass-through rates, offer acceptance, and time to hire.
• Help build the foundation of AfterQuery’s recruiting function, including systems, templates, workflows, and talent market maps.

Benefits

• Compensation will depend on experience, seniority, and demonstrated ability to independently source, manage, and close high-quality technical candidates.

What This Job Offers

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