Technical Recruiter

Description

The company organizes human expertise to train AI systems. It is a Series C company valued at $10 billion and is profitable. Millions of domain experts on its platform are paid over $4 million per day to train frontier AI models.

The company also runs the APEX benchmark family, which measures AI's impact on professional work, and the company Enterprise, which helps Fortune 500 companies capture how their top people work and turn that knowledge into agents.

This is a full-cycle recruiting role owning hiring for critical technical functions. You will work directly with the VP of Engineering, the CTO and engineering leaders, and help shape the engineering organization as the company grows quickly.

Responsibilities

• Own full-cycle recruiting for software, machine learning, research, infrastructure, security and leadership roles.
• Work with the VP of Engineering, the CTO and Engineering Managers to set headcount plans, role outcomes, success profiles and the hiring bar, and rank open reqs against business goals.
• Build the top of the funnel through targeted passive outreach, talent intelligence, referrals, events, and the company's own product, which includes structured screens, automated work samples and calibrated rubrics.
• Find and close passive candidates with a high bar. Tell a compelling story, handle objections, and lead offers and negotiations based on level, comp bands and market data.
• Design assessments that predict job performance, define competencies, calibrate rubrics and improve signal quality over time.
• Coach hiring managers and interviewers on structured interviewing, leveling and sound decision-making.
• Build and run hiring systems, tracking pass-through rates, time in stage, source yield and diversity signals, and report weekly and quarterly with clear metrics and narrative.
• Set and meet SLAs for same-day debriefs and fast offers, and keep the candidate experience strong.
• Maintain a mapped bench of high-potential talent for critical and future roles.
• Build the company's brand with top technical talent through campaigns, content, communities and events, acting as a visible representative for the engineers and researchers the company most wants.
• Work on dashboards, metrics and process automation in Ashby and other recruiting systems.

Requirements

• 6+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting, ideally in high-growth or deep-tech companies.
• Solid understanding of technical roles including SWE, MLE, Research, Applied AI, Security, Infrastructure and TLM.
• A record of sourcing and closing passive candidates for high-bar IC and leadership roles.
• Experience building and scaling hiring systems, choosing the right metrics and making data-driven decisions.
• Working knowledge of structured interviewing, competency rubrics and recruiting analytics.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to influence senior stakeholders, including the VP of Engineering, the CTO and cross-functional leaders, quickly.
• A commitment to inclusive hiring and an excellent candidate experience.
• Familiarity with Ashby, or the ability to learn new tools quickly.
• Nice to have: experience as a founding technical recruiter or early-stage builder.
• Nice to have: experience hiring ML researchers or research engineers at an AI lab.
• Nice to have: interest in the human data or AGI space.
• Nice to have: a technical degree or professional engineering experience.

Conditions

In-person work five days a week in the San Francisco, NYC or London office.

Bi-annual performance bonus structure.

Equal-opportunity employer.

Benefits

• Generous equity grant vesting over 4 years.
• Up to $15k relocation bonus.
• $10K housing bonus if you live within 0.5 miles of the office.
• $1.5K monthly stipend for meals.
• $200 monthly laundry reimbursement.
• $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement.
• Health, dental and vision insurance.