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Nscale

Senior Technical Recruiter

  • Office
  • 6+ years

Salary

$160,000 - 210,000/ year

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About Nscale

Nscale is the GPU cloud engineered for AI. We provide cost-effective, high-performance infrastructure for AI start-ups and large enterprise customers. Nscale enables AI-focused companies to achieve superior results by reducing the complexity of AI development. Our GPU cloud bolsters technical capabilities and directly supports strategic business outcomes, including cost management, rapid innovation, and environmental responsibility.

We thrive on a culture of relentless innovation, ownership, and accountability, where every team member takes pride in their work and drives it with excellence and urgency. As an Nscaler, you’ll build trust through openness and transparency, where everyone is inspired to do their best work. If you join our team, you’ll be contributing to building the technology that powers the future.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Senior Technical Recruiter to lead end-to-end hiring for the teams building Nscale’s AI infrastructure platform. You’ll partner closely with engineering and product leaders to hire exceptional talent across cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, platform engineering, developer tooling, and open-source ecosystems.

This is a hands-on, high-impact role. You will personally run critical searches, bring sharp market intelligence to hiring decisions, and help build the teams that make Nscale’s GPU cloud faster, more reliable, and easier for customers to use.

What You’ll Be Doing

Own full-cycle recruiting for technical roles, from intake and calibration through sourcing, assessment design, offer management, and closing.

Partner with senior engineering, product, and infrastructure leaders to define talent needs, hiring plans, and compelling candidate value propositions.

Proactively build and engage high-yield talent pipelines, focusing heavily on outbound sourcing within hard-to-reach engineering communities.

Bring practical market insight on talent availability, compensation, competitor mapping, and realistic time-to-fill expectations.

Design and continuously improve structured interview processes, including clear competencies, calibrated scorecards, and evidence-based debriefs.

Develop creative sourcing strategies for highly technical, passive candidates in competitive markets.

Deliver an exceptional candidate experience that is timely, transparent, informed, and appropriately high-touch.

Use recruiting data and market feedback to influence hiring priorities and improve delivery over time.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, gained in-house and/or in a high-performing search environment.
  • Demonstrated experience hiring software engineers and technical leaders for a Neocloud, hyperscaler, AI infrastructure company, cloud platform, or open-source software business.
  • Strong understanding of technical talent markets across areas such as cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, Kubernetes, GPU/AI platforms, storage, networking, platform engineering, developer tools, or developer experience.
  • Strong functional knowledge of the modern open-source AI infrastructure ecosystem, such as vLLM, Ray, PyTorch, DeepSpeed, Hugging Face TGI, or similar.
  • Proven ability to recruit across a range of seniorities, including senior individual contributors and technical leadership roles.
  • Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to influence and constructively challenge senior technical leaders.
  • Strong sourcing capability, including market mapping, talent research, targeted outreach, and building long-term candidate relationships.
  • A high bar for quality, process, and candidate experience, with comfort using structured and data-informed hiring practices.
  • Ability to operate with pace, sound judgement, and ownership in a high-growth environment.
  • Experience recruiting for AI infrastructure, GPU cloud, data centre software, developer platforms, or open-source communities.
  • Familiarity with hiring technical talent across the USA and Europe, including location, compensation, and compliance complexity.
  • Experience supporting rapid technical team growth while maintaining a high hiring bar.
  • Experience partnering with compensation and people teams on levelling, offers, and market benchmarking.
  • Why This Role Matters
  • Nscale’s ability to deliver world-class AI infrastructure depends on the technical teams we build. This role will directly shape the engineering and platform talent behind our cloud, helping us scale with both speed and quality as we build the technology that powers the future.
  • Equal Opportunities Statement
  • We strongly encourage applications from people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds. If there’s anything we can do to accommodate your specific situation, please let us know.
  • The responsibilities outlined in this job description are not exhaustive and are intended to provide a general overview of the position. The employee may be required to perform additional duties, tasks, and responsibilities as assigned by management, consistent with the skills and qualifications required for the role.
  • The range below reflects the base salary for the position. Actual compensation may vary based on job-related factors such as skill set, experience, education, and location. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for bonus, equity, and/or commission programs. Nscale may offer a competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, flexible paid time off, parental leave, and retirement plan participation.

Conditions

$160,000 - $210,000 USD

Nscale does not accept unsolicited candidate submissions from recruitment agencies.

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Nscale

Office in San Francisco, United States

Also hiring in United Kingdom, Houston, United States, New York, United States and 8 more places

7 of their 53 open roles are remote

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Senior
Equity
Equity offered
Specialty
IT Recruiting
Region
United States
Pay period
Annual
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Recruiting & Other
Specialty
IT Recruiting
Seniority
Senior
Experience
8+ years

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Office
Region
United States
Office
  • San Francisco, United States

Compensation

Salary
$160,000 - 210,000 / year
Pay period
Annual
Equity
Equity offered

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