R&D Recruiter

Location: On-site in London or Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Company

hirify.global is building an AI-powered legal operations platform for in-house legal teams, consolidating requests, routine AI-agent work, lawyer oversight, and work tracking in one system.

What you will do

• Own R&D hiring from intake through signed offer and the candidate’s first day.
• Deliver high-quality product engineering, Applied AI and LLM engineering, data science, product management, and design hires each quarter.
• Source engineers directly through GitHub, research communities, alumni networks, competitor teams, and AI-personalised outreach.
• Run fast, fair technical hiring processes with focused take-homes, calibrated interviewers, and debriefs within 24 hours.
• Close candidates using equity, scope, and the problem being solved, and report on funnel performance weekly.
• Define hiring standards with engineering and product leaders and improve the process based on recruiting data.

Requirements

• 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including at least 3 software engineer hires at product-led technology companies.
• Ability to discuss technology stacks, levels, and system design with engineers and identify weak signals.
• Quantifiable track record covering hires per quarter, offer acceptance, and the performance of hires.
• Most recent hires must have been sourced directly rather than coming from inbound applications.
• Fluency with Ashby or a similar ATS and real-world use of AI in personal recruiting workflows.

Nice to have

• Experience hiring AI, ML, or LLM engineers.
• Experience hiring product managers and designers alongside engineering roles.
• Experience relocating engineers into the UK, including visa sponsorship.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time, on-site work in London or Edinburgh.
• Technical recruiting is treated as an ownership role rather than a coordination function.
• The process prioritizes speed, fairness, candidate respect, and hiring strong talent over optimizing for interviewers.