Technical Recruiter

• Take ownership of the entire recruiting lifecycle for research and engineering roles—including ML research, robotics, applied ML, infrastructure, and systems engineering.
• Collaborate directly with founders, research leads, and engineering managers to define role requirements, set the technical bar, and design hiring strategies for each search.
• Source, engage, and successfully close senior researchers and engineers in a competitive market where many candidates have offers from top frontier labs.
• Develop creative, technically informed outreach strategies, such as leveraging paper authorship, conference presentations, GitHub contributions, and lab alumni networks, to attract passive candidates who may not respond to standard recruiter messages.
• Design and continuously refine calibrated technical interview loops, research interviews, screening processes, and debrief procedures for both research and engineering tracks.
• Integrate AI tools (such as Claude, OpenAI, etc.) into your core workflow for sourcing, outreach, screening, and operations.
• Manage the end-to-end candidate experience, ensuring a technically credible and high-touch process for every hire.

Principal Technical Recruiter

• Source and engage high-quality technical talent across global markets
• Build pipelines across software engineering, machine learning, infrastructure, and product engineering functions
• Conduct market mapping and talent research across companies, research labs, and universities
• Partner closely with recruiters and hiring managers to support hiring priorities
• Maintain high sourcing quality and pipeline organization
• Track talent market trends, competitor movements, and emerging talent pools
• Continuously improve sourcing strategies, messaging, and outreach effectiveness

Senior Technical Sourcer, UK

• Own end to end hiring on all technical roles
• Partner closely with leaders to shape hiring plans (and push back when needed)
• Proactively build diverse talent pipelines - not just wait for applications
• Design structured, inclusive interview processes
• Use data and insight to guide decisions, not gut feel
• Make candidate experience something people talk about for the right reasons

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Principal Technical Recruiter

Senior Technical Sourcer, UK

Technical Recruiter, FTC 6 months