Subquadratic
Technical Recruiter
$180K–$240K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years; recent experience hiring for an AI lab, an AI research team, or a technical startup.
About the job
Own end-to-end recruiting for research and engineering roles, including sourcing, candidate engagement, hiring processes, offer closing, and building recruiting systems.
What you'll do
- Map research talent and source, engage, and close passive candidates for research and engineering roles.
- Partner with hiring managers and manage candidates through an organized interview process and excellent candidate experience.
- Build and improve recruiting workflows, including AI-enabled sourcing, pipeline rediscovery, metrics, tools, agency coordination, and research-community outreach.
What they ask for
- 4+ years of technical recruiting or sourcing, with recent experience hiring for an AI lab, AI research team, or technical startup.
- Track record finding and engaging passive technical candidates, including researchers and senior engineers, and closing candidates against competing offers.
- Technical fluency to assess whether a person’s work fits a role by reviewing a Google Scholar profile, paper abstract, or GitHub repo; strong, personal writing.
- Hands-on fluency with AI tools for sourcing and recruiting; systems thinking and comfort with ambiguity and shifting priorities.
Nice to have
- Knowledge of the ML research landscape, sourcing tools, or university and PhD recruiting.
- Experience building diverse research pipelines or familiarity with visa and immigration processes for international candidates.
Pay
$180,000–$240,000 base salary
Tools
Ashby, Claude, ChatGPT, LinkedIn Recruiter, Gem, Juicebox, GitHub, Google Scholar
AI focus
Use AI tools to create sourcing workflows, automate searches across research and code sources, enrich and rank candidate lists, draft personalized outreach, and automate repetitive recruiting tasks.
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