Merge Labs
Senior Recruiter
$120K–$200K
San Francisco Bay Area · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jun 3, 2026
About the job
Owns full-cycle recruiting for research and scientific roles, building sourcing strategies and talent maps, partnering with research leaders, and delivering a structured candidate experience.
What you'll do
- Manage full-cycle recruiting for research, scientific, and adjacent technical roles.
- Partner with hiring managers on role scope, evaluation criteria, interview plans, and hiring alignment.
- Develop passive-candidate sourcing strategies and talent maps, and improve recruiting processes using data.
What they ask for
- Experience owning multiple challenging end-to-end recruiting pipelines, including technical, scientific, research, or highly specialized roles.
- Track record of sourcing and closing passive candidates in competitive markets.
- Strong hiring manager partnership and ability to translate ambiguous needs into search strategies.
- Deep expertise in at least one relevant scientific or technical domain, with ability to learn unfamiliar domains.
Nice to have
Pay
$120K – $200K (base salary)
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