Founding Technical Recruiter
$150,000–$200,000 year
On-sitePalo Alto, California, United States
Job Summary
Own full-cycle recruiting for technical roles from sourcing through offer close, building outbound pipelines for exceptional engineering talent across infrastructure, AI/ML, and platform engineering. Partner closely with founders and hiring managers to develop market intelligence, researching companies and talent landscapes to identify high-impact candidates others miss. Deliver an exceptional candidate experience while continuously improving recruiting workflows using AI and automation to create leverage. This role is critical to building one of the strongest engineering teams in AI at Astrocade, a company with over 30 million users on its social UGC platform. You will work directly with Chief Scientist Fei-Fei Li and the founding team to help define the next foundational AI company where world models meet a billion players.
Required Qualifications
- 3–10 years of experience recruiting technical talent
- experience sourcing and closing senior software engineers at startups or leading technology companies
- Can confidently evaluate technical backgrounds across infrastructure, distributed systems, AI/ML, recommendation systems, backend, and platform engineering
- Love outbound recruiting and proactively building relationships with exceptional talent
- Are highly competitive, move with urgency, and enjoy solving difficult hiring problems
- Are an exceptional communicator who earns trust with both candidates and hiring managers
- Take ownership and thrive in a high-expectation, early-stage environment
Desired Qualifications
- Experience recruiting for AI, ML, recommendation systems, or infrastructure engineering teams
- Experience building market maps, competitive intelligence, and talent research from scratch
- Strong understanding of modern AI tools and how they can improve recruiting workflows
- Experience hiring engineers from companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google DeepMind, NVIDIA, xAI, Roblox, TikTok, or other leading AI and consumer technology companies
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