Mercor
Technical Recruiter
$160K–$250K
San Francisco · On-site · Full-time · Posted Aug 3, 2026
- Experience
- 6+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting.
About the job
Own full-cycle technical recruiting and help scale Mercor’s engineering organization by partnering with senior engineering leaders on hiring strategy, sourcing, assessment, and recruiting operations.
What you'll do
- Recruit across software, machine learning, research, infrastructure, security, and leadership roles; source and close candidates and lead offer negotiations.
- Partner with engineering leaders to set hiring plans, role criteria, assessments, and structured interview practices.
- Build and optimize recruiting systems, metrics, candidate experience, and technical-talent brand efforts.
What they ask for
- 6+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting, ideally in high-growth or deep-tech environments.
- Deep familiarity with technical roles including SWE, MLE, Research, Applied AI, Security, Infrastructure, and TLM.
- Proven ability to source and close passive candidates for high-bar individual contributor and leadership roles.
- Experience building hiring systems and using recruiting metrics; fluency with structured interviewing, competency rubrics, and recruiting analytics.
Nice to have
- Experience as a founding technical recruiter or early-stage builder.
- Experience hiring ML researchers or research engineers at an AI lab.
Pay
$160K – $250K (base salary); $15k (relocation bonus); $10K (housing bonus); $1.5K monthly (meal stipend)
Tools
Ashby
AI focus
Recruit technical talent across machine learning, research, and Applied AI, supporting a company building infrastructure and data to train frontier AI models.
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