Patronus AI
Technical Recruiter
$140K–$200K
San Francisco · Full-time · Posted Sep 18, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting, including time at a startup where the process did not already exist.
About the job
Own end-to-end recruiting for technical roles, from sourcing and candidate evaluation through closing, while improving hiring processes and using AI to automate recruiting work.
What you'll do
- Manage full-cycle recruiting for research, platform, product engineering, and technical program management roles.
- Source and evaluate candidates, partner with hiring managers and co-founders, and lead candidate closing and negotiations.
- Track recruiting metrics and use AI to automate market research, outreach drafting, and funnel analysis.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting, including experience at a startup where the process did not already exist.
- Experience hiring engineers or researchers in competitive markets where candidates had other offers.
- Ability to source passive candidates and assess technical qualifications using resumes, GitHub profiles, or papers.
- Strong candidate-closing, negotiation, written communication, judgment, and recruiting-data practices.
Nice to have
- Experience hiring PhD-level researchers or recruiting for reinforcement learning, evaluation, agents, or ML infrastructure.
- Built recruiting tools or automations; familiarity with Greenhouse and interest in AI safety and evaluation are also noted.
Pay
$140,000 - $200,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
AI, GitHub, arXiv, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, Greenhouse
AI focus
Use AI to automate market mapping, research, outreach drafting, and funnel analysis.
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