Senior Tech Recruiter (AI)

Location: On-site in Almaty, Kazakhstan

Company

A rapidly scaling generative AI company building AI-powered video creation products and next-generation creative tools for users and enterprise brands worldwide.

What you will do

• Own full-cycle recruiting for senior and hard-to-fill roles across backend, frontend, ML, research, MLOps, data, infrastructure, and security.
• Partner with technical hiring managers to define role requirements, candidate profiles, and interview processes.
• Build talent maps and proactively source passive senior candidates through LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, technical communities, referrals, and AI sourcing tools.
• Assess candidates for technical depth, seniority, motivation, and product impact.
• Lead offer conversations and close senior candidates considering competing offers.
• Advise hiring teams on talent availability, compensation, and market conditions while maintaining accurate pipelines and scorecards in Ashby.

Requirements

• 5+ years of technical recruiting experience, including senior and leadership-level hiring.
• Track record of hiring senior software engineers, ML engineers, researchers, or data professionals.
• Strong understanding of engineering and ML teams, including infrastructure, model training, data systems, and production environments.
• Strong sourcing and candidate-closing skills, including experience engaging passive senior candidates.
• Experience using Ashby and LinkedIn Recruiter.
• Excellent written and verbal English and Russian.

Nice to have

• Experience hiring for AI, ML, generative media, or high-growth startups.
• Existing network among engineers and researchers in Kazakhstan, the CIS, or Europe.
• Experience using AI sourcing and automation tools.
• Experience hiring for security or other niche technical profiles.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive salary paid in USD.
• Full-time, on-site work from the Almaty office.
• Work on AI-powered video creation and next-generation creative tools.
• Exposure to senior technical hiring across engineering, ML, research, data, infrastructure, and security.