Senior Technical Recruiter (AI/ML)

Location: Remote, Hong Kong

Company

Building proactive AI-native applications that help people manage conversations, errands, organisation, and workflows with minimal prompting.

What you will do

• Own technical searches end-to-end across AI/ML, backend, frontend, mobile, infrastructure, and engineering leadership.
• Build talent maps and sourcing strategies across AI startups, technology companies, research organisations, and technical communities.
• Identify and headhunt high-quality passive candidates through LinkedIn, communities, networks, and other relevant platforms.
• Assess technical profiles and individual contributions beyond company names, titles, and keywords.
• Partner with engineering leaders to calibrate hiring bars, refine target profiles, and improve interview processes.
• Manage senior candidates through compensation discussions, competing offers, negotiation, and closing.

Requirements

• 5+ years of recruiting experience with substantial experience hiring software engineers and other technical talent.
• Demonstrated success independently delivering difficult technical hires through proactive headhunting.
• Strong understanding of software engineering disciplines and ability to evaluate technical profiles deeply.
• Strong sourcing, candidate management, negotiation, and closing skills.
• Ability to advise hiring managers using evidence from the talent market.
• High ownership, judgement, and execution speed.

Nice to have

• Experience recruiting AI/ML engineers, researchers, distributed systems engineers, or senior technical leaders.
• Experience hiring internationally across multiple technical talent markets.
• Experience recruiting for an early-stage AI or technology company.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote role supporting global technical hiring.
• Work on AI-native products focused on persistent context, reliable long-running workflows, and real-world task completion.
• Direct collaboration with engineering leaders and ownership of complex searches.