Founding Recruiter

The role

You will be the first full-time recruiter to build the hiring engine and close hires. You will hire 10-15 technical people in year one, including RL-environments Engineers, Strategic Project Leads, and Research Engineers.

What you will do

• Hire 10-15 technical people in year one
• Keep median time-to-fill on priority RL-env engineering roles near 30 days
• Land a 75%+ offer-accept rate
• Improve ATS pipeline conversions, scorecard-based interviews, a sourcing playbook, and a real intake-and-debrief cadence with hiring managers
• Bring in people who perform and stay
• Put Bespoke on the map in the RL-env and data-curation talent world through inbound and referrals
• Close hires yourself and build the machine behind them

Required qualifications

• 3+ years of technical recruiting experience
• Strong sourcing skills and a network in the AI/engineering talent market
• Ability to move fast, operate independently, wear multiple hats, sell a hard mission, and win candidates who have other offers on the table
• Familiarity with AI/ML roles and terminology, specially on RL environments, agentic tasks, and ML/infra work
• Ability to run on data to improve time-to-fill, accept rate, funnel conversion, source of hire

Nice to have

• ideally at a startup or in AI/ML

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k)
• Daily onsite lunch provided
• Visa sponsorship and relocation support available
• Direct impact on how the industry trains and evaluates agents

About the company

Bespoke Labs is an applied AI research lab pioneering data and RL environment curation for training and evaluating agents.