Senior Technical Recruiter, Frontier AI
Proximity Works
Senior Technical Recruiter
Proximity Works
full-time
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Origin: • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Senior
About the role
- Own the end-to-end closure of senior AI, ML, multimodal, backend, and engineering hires globally.
- Build adjacency maps of companies, labs, and communities working on relevant frontier problems.
- Generate technical screening prompts, knockout questions, and rubrics independently.
- Source beyond LinkedIn using GitHub, arXiv, OSS repos, Kaggle, Twitter, Discord, Substack, niche forums, and micro-communities.
- Craft and execute compelling outreach campaigns using artifact-first hooks and Proximity’s track record.
- Drive urgency by compressing interview loops, managing notice-period negotiations and buyouts, and delivering offers quickly.
- Ensure evidence-backed sourcing with GitHub repos, demos, papers, and talks while maintaining a world-class candidate experience.
- Collaborate with global CTO offices and hiring teams to align on frontier AI problem statements and hiring needs.
- Deliver against success metrics such as 6-8 frontier hires per quarter, high evidence-backed candidate rates, and rapid SLA adherence.
Requirements
- Proven track record as an individual contributor recruiter, not just a TA manager.
- Demonstrated success sourcing and closing frontier AI, ML, backend, or engineering talent globally.
- Strong technical comprehension; comfortable with transformer fine-tuning, multimodal pipelines involving video, audio, and text, MLOps stacks, scalable backend systems, and related domains.
- Evidence of artifact-based sourcing such as GitHub repos, OSS contributions, research papers, or competition wins.
- Experience in persuasive multi-touch outreach campaigns and passive talent conversion.
- Global exposure and ability to recruit across India, EU, LATAM, or other regions with cost-sensitive hiring strategies.
- Nice to have: Experience hiring for early-stage or hypergrowth AI and ML product teams.
- Nice to have: Success recruiting engineers in video generation, lip-sync, diffusion, audio processing, or real-time streaming.
- Nice to have: Familiarity with ad-tech hiring at scale (RTB, personalization, streaming infrastructure).
- Nice to have: Portfolio of outreach copy or campaigns with proven conversion results.
