Senior Technical Recruiter

The role

You will own full-cycle hiring for senior technical roles in engineering, research and technical product. You will work directly with the CTO and engineering leaders to define roles, design interview processes and close candidates.

What you will do

• Own full-cycle recruiting for engineering and other technical roles, from intake to offer close.
• Partner with the CTO and engineering hiring managers to define requirements and design structured interviews.
• Lead candidate engagement, compensation conversations, offer negotiation and competing-offer strategy.
• Run proactive outreach to passive candidates using boolean search, talent mapping and personalized messaging.
• Deliver an excellent candidate experience as the primary point of contact.
• Maintain clean pipelines in Ashby and use funnel data to improve conversion.
• Track the technical talent market, including comp benchmarks and hiring trends in AI/ML and infrastructure.
• Contribute to recruiting operations such as interview training, scorecards and process improvements.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience.
• Meaningful time spent at a high-growth startup.
• A track record of hiring senior engineers in a competitive market and closing candidates weighing multiple offers.
• Experience partnering directly with engineering leadership as a trusted advisor.
• Strong command of offer negotiation, compensation structures (including equity) and closing strategy.
• Comfort sourcing your own pipeline with boolean search and tools like LinkedIn Recruiter, Juicebox, and Ashby or a similar ATS.

Nice to have

• Experience recruiting for AI/ML, research or data-focused companies.
• Experience recruiting ML engineers, research engineers, or infrastructure/platform engineers.
• Experience designing or improving interview processes from scratch at an early-stage company.
• Familiarity with market mapping and competitive talent intelligence.

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO.
• Health, dental and vision coverage with 100% coverage for most plans.
• FSA and HSA access.
• 401k access.
• Meals 2x daily through DoorDash.
• Snacks and beverages available at the office.
• Unlimited company-sponsored Barry's classes.

Before you apply

• David AI sponsors international candidates for H-1B transfers, H-1B1, O-1, E-3 and TN visas.
• David AI hires candidates on STEM OPT; OPT candidates must confirm a path to one of the listed visas before OPT ends.

About the company

David AI is the first audio data research company, developing high-quality audio training datasets. Founded in 2024 by former Scale AI engineers and operators, it has most FAANG companies and AI labs as customers.