Technical Recruiter, AI Research

The role

You will partner with AI research and engineering teams to identify, engage, and hire researchers and engineers. You will develop strategic recruiting plans and build a network of ML researchers.

What you will do

• Develop and execute strategic recruiting plans for AI/ML research and engineering roles
• Partner with AI Research hiring managers and interview panels
• Build and sustain a high-trust network of ML researchers and applied scientists
• Partner with leadership to map long-term AI/ML talent strategy
• Build and iterate on recruiting processes
• Strengthen Lila's employer brand within the ML research and scientific community
• Stay current on sourcing techniques and AI/ML talent-market trends
• Maintain operational rigor including pipeline hygiene and recruiting metrics

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience supporting technical research teams
• Track record of recruiting AI/ML research talent specifically
• Strong existing network in the ML research community (NeurIPS, ICML, top CS/ML programs)
• Ability to attract passive candidates from leading academic institutions and frontier labs
• Strong technical aptitude
• Excellent negotiation, communication, and stakeholder-management skills with senior technical leaders
• Comfortable operating with autonomy and juggling shifting priorities

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with agentic recruiting tools/workflows
• Experience recruiting at a deep-tech or frontier AI research organization
• International recruiting experience across multiple regions

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Employer-paid life and disability insurance
• Flexible time off with generous company wide holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Educational assistance program
• Commuter benefits, including bike share memberships for office based employees
• Company subsidized lunch program

About the company

Lila Sciences is building Scientific Superintelligence™ to solve humankind's greatest challenges. The company combines advanced AI models with proprietary AI Science Factory™ instruments into an operating system for science.