Talent Engineer

The role

The Talent Engineer will hire engineers and GTM leaders to support rapid growth. This person will own end-to-end recruiting, build recruiting operations, and partner with founders to define roles and processes.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end recruiting across technical and GTM roles
• Build and optimize recruiting ops and tooling, automating workflows whenever possible
• Partner closely with founders and team leads to define role requirements, evaluation criteria, and interview processes
• Develop a strong understanding of our product to effectively pitch technical candidates
• Source top candidates through high-signal and unconventional channels
• Screen candidates for both technical competence and product/market intuition
• Support onboarding and new hire ramp
• Help define and run performance review processes, leveling, and feedback systems

Required qualifications

• Experience hiring engineering, product, and GTM roles
• Comfortable evaluating candidates via portfolios and projects, not just resumes
• Can understand and communicate technical concepts well enough to engage credibly with candidates
• Highly organized and can manage multiple roles and pipelines simultaneously
• Strong instincts for talent quality and bar-setting
• Early-stage startup experience with ability to work independently in fast-paced environments

Nice to have

• A track record of sourcing creatively
• Familiarity with Ashby, Juicebox, and Clay
• Experience with vibe coding and using AI to automate workflows
• Exposure to or ownership of people/HR functions
• Experience evaluating non-traditional candidate profiles

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• 100% covered top-of-the-line medical, dental, and vision (US and Singapore employees)
• Lunch and dinner for in-office employees
• Company-wide holiday break (Christmas Eve to New Year’s Day) on top of PTO and paid holidays
• 401k with a 4% match
• Equinox membership and commuter benefits (US employees)
• Health/wellness stipend (Singapore employees)
• Unlimited access to tokens for ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor, etc.
• Annual travel budget to visit either office

Before you apply

• We provide support for relocation and visas for strong full-time candidates to the US or Singapore
• The process is 2 technical interviews and a 2-3 day work trial

About the company

HUD's mission is to build reliable, fair and open infrastructure for AI data. Their marketplace and platform are used by startups, Fortune 500 companies and frontier labs.