Technical Recruiter

The role

You will own full-cycle recruiting for technical roles including software, AI/ML, and infrastructure. You will source, screen, coordinate, and close candidates while partnering with the CEO and hiring managers.

What you will do

• Own full-cycle recruiting across technical roles from sourcing, screening, coordinating, and closing
• Proactively source and engage engineering and technical talent with high outbound volume
• Move candidates through the process fast
• Partner directly with the CEO and hiring managers to understand roles and calibrate quickly
• Build and maintain a live pipeline
• Handle offers, negotiate, and close
• Identify gaps in process and fix them
• Track recruiting metrics and maintain organized candidate records in Ashby

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience
• Startup experience required
• Proven track record hiring engineers: software, AI/ML, or similar technical roles
• High-volume sourcer who can generate outbound pipeline consistently
• Experience closing skeptical candidates
• Operates well with ambiguity, limited process, and a CEO who is deeply involved in hiring
• Present in-office 4 days a week

Nice to have

• Helped build an engineering team at an early-stage startup from the ground up
• Used to a founder-led hiring culture where speed and judgment matter more than process compliance
• Passionate about AI, startups, and what it takes to build a high-performing team
• Energized by high output

Benefits

• Medical coverage
• Dental coverage
• Vision coverage
• Generous 401(k)
• Catered lunches

About the company

Salient builds AI agents for regulated financial services. The company is backed by a16z and Y Combinator and is building in person in San Francisco.