Technical Recruiter

The role

You will own full-cycle recruiting for technical roles and partner with founders to define hiring systems. You will build outbound sourcing pipelines and manage the candidate experience for engineering and technical positions.

What you will do

• Own full-cycle recruiting for technical roles including software engineering, infrastructure, applied AI, full-stack, and product engineering.
• Build high-quality outbound sourcing pipelines for top technical talent.
• Source candidates from AI labs, high-growth startups, big tech, quant firms, and elite universities.
• Partner with founders and hiring managers to define role requirements, interview loops, scorecards, and hiring strategy.
• Run candidate processes end-to-end including outreach, screens, coordination, feedback collection, offer support, and closing.
• Create a high-touch candidate experience.
• Track and improve recruiting funnel metrics.
• Help build the foundation of recruiting functions including systems, templates, workflows, and talent market maps.

Required qualifications

• 1+ years of experience in technical recruiting, ideally at a high-growth startup, AI company, top tech company, or technical recruiting agency.
• Proven ability to source, engage, and close strong engineering candidates in competitive markets.
• Strong understanding of technical roles across software engineering, infrastructure, full-stack, applied AI, and systems/product engineering.
• Experience building outbound sourcing pipelines from scratch.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong judgment on candidate quality, calibration, culture fit, and hiring urgency.
• High agency, strong ownership, and comfort operating in a fast-moving startup environment.
• Experience partnering directly with founders, executives, or senior hiring managers.

Nice to have

• Experience recruiting for AI, ML, data infrastructure, developer tools, quant, or frontier technology companies.
• Strong network across engineering, AI, startup, university, or quant communities.
• Experience hiring founding engineers, senior engineers, infrastructure engineers, or other hard-to-close technical talent.
• Comfortable with LinkedIn Recruiter, ATS systems, sourcing tools, email sequencing tools, and AI-assisted recruiting workflows.
• Experience improving interview processes, scorecards, calibration systems, or candidate experience.
• Startup experience

Benefits

• Health Insurance: Medical, Vision, Dental
• 401(k) with Employer Match
• Daily Meals: Daily UberEats Stipend
• Monthly Wellness Stipend

About the company

AfterQuery is an applied research lab curating data solutions for foundation model development. They are based in San Francisco and serve frontier AI labs.