Senior Technical Recruiter (AI)

Location: United States; Remote

Company

Building proactive AI-native applications that help people manage conversations, errands, organization, 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 organizations, and technical communities.
• Identify and headhunt high-quality passive candidates through proactive sourcing.
• Assess candidates' technical profiles, individual contributions, and relevance to the organization.
• Partner with engineering leaders to calibrate hiring standards and improve interview processes.
• Manage and close senior candidates through compensation discussions, competing offers, and other complex situations.

Requirements

• 5+ years of recruiting experience with substantial experience hiring software engineers and other technical talent.
• Demonstrated success delivering difficult technical hires through proactive headhunting.
• Strong understanding of software engineering disciplines and ability to evaluate technical profiles beyond company, title, and keywords.
• Strong sourcing skills across LinkedIn, relevant platforms, communities, and professional networks.
• Ability to advise hiring managers using evidence from the talent market.
• Strong candidate management, negotiation, closing skills, ownership, judgment, 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.