Technical Recruiter

The role

You will manage the end-to-end hiring process for specialized technical roles. You will partner with founders and engineering leaders to design sourcing strategies and build the recruiting engine.

What you will do

• Manage the end-to-end hiring process for highly specialized technical roles.
• Work closely with technical leaders to understand hiring needs and define role requirements.
• Design and execute proactive sourcing strategies to identify passive candidates.
• Provide a high-touch candidate experience from outreach to onboarding.
• Help build and refine internal hiring processes, interview loops, and ATS workflows.
• Represent the company within academic, scientific, and deep-tech communities.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of technical recruiting experience.
• Proven track record of sourcing and closing talent in complex technical domains.
• Deep technical curiosity regarding computing architectures and AI.
• Strategic advisory skills to influence hiring decisions and guide stakeholders.
• A builder's mindset for fast-paced startup environments.
• Exceptional communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience hiring talent at the intersection of hardware and software.
• Experience with academic recruitment and deep ties to top-tier research communities.
• Experience within a high-growth startup, frontier AI lab, or specialized deep-tech/hardware environment.

Benefits

• Highly competitive base salary
• Generous early-stage equity
• Premium medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
• Flexible PTO

About the company

Unconventional AI is building a new compute substrate for artificial intelligence by designing hardware for probabilistic AI workloads. The company is backed by investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Jeff Bezos.