Senior Recruiter, AI & Engineering

The role

You will own full-cycle recruiting for high-impact Engineering, AI, Machine Learning, and Infrastructure roles. You will partner with engineering leaders to develop sourcing and closing strategies for technical talent.

What you will do

• Own full-cycle recruiting for Engineering, AI, Machine Learning, and Infrastructure roles.
• Partner with hiring managers to scope roles and build hiring plans.
• Manage a high volume of concurrent specialized searches.
• Develop and execute proactive sourcing strategies for passive talent.
• Build and maintain a talent pipeline across AI/ML, backend, infrastructure, and platform engineering.
• Advise hiring managers on compensation benchmarks and market intelligence.
• Guide hiring managers through role definition, interview design, and offer strategy.
• Deliver candidate experience from outreach through offer and close.
• Maintain hiring bar through structured interview processes and technical assessment coordination.
• Use recruiting data to improve time-to-fill and funnel quality.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of technical recruiting experience recruiting software engineers, AI/ML engineers, infrastructure engineers, or other highly competitive technical talent.
• Experience recruiting for high-growth Silicon Valley technology companies or AI-first organizations.
• Proven ability to independently manage multiple senior/complex searches at once.
• Strong sourcing skills including proactive outreach to passive candidates.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills to build credibility with technical hiring managers and senior engineering leaders.
• Demonstrated resilience, adaptability, and comfort with ambiguity in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Willingness to work on-site five days per week in Mountain View.

Nice to have

• Experience recruiting for frontier AI, LLM, agentic AI, or generative AI teams.
• Experience closing senior IC, staff, or principal-level technical candidates in competitive, multi-offer situations.
• Familiarity with AI-powered recruiting/sourcing tools and applicant tracking systems (e.g., Greenhouse, Ashby, LinkedIn Recruiter, or similar).
• Experience supporting globally distributed engineering teams.
• Professional fluency in both English and Mandarin Chinese

Benefits

• Discretionary bonus
• Options

About the company

NewsBreak is a local life and news platform with more than 40 million monthly users. It includes platforms like NewsBreak, Nearby AI, and NDot AI.