# Sr. Technical Sourcer

**Company:** [Perplexity](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/perplexity)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Recruiting
**Salary:** $150k – $185k/yr
**Skills:** Technical Sourcing, Talent Mapping, Candidate Engagement, Ai-Assisted Sourcing, Pipeline Analytics, Workflow Automation, Technical Literacy, Creative Outreach
**Posted:** 2026-06-19

> Technical Sourcer who identifies, engages, and pipelines engineering talent using AI-augmented sourcing strategies and close collaboration with recruiters and hiring managers.

## Job Description

## What You'll Do
- Research, identify, and engage engineering and technical talent across multiple disciplines and experience levels
- Collaborate with recruiters and hiring teams to deeply understand technical requirements and calibrate profiles with accuracy and nuance
- Use a wide range of sourcing strategies, including advanced research, talent mapping, referrals, AI-assisted automation, and creative outreach, to build strong candidate pipelines
- Build and refine your own tooling and workflows, leveraging AI to automate repetitive work and spend more of your time on high-judgment sourcing
- Act as a candidate's first introduction to Perplexity AI, delivering an authentic and compelling story about our mission, product, and team culture
- Track and analyze pipeline data to drive continuous optimization and improvements in sourcing approaches
- Operate with agility, adapting quickly to shifting priorities, hard-to-fill roles, and changing team needs

## What You Bring
- A strong desire to grow a career in sourcing, with clear dedication to advancing your craft and developing deep expertise in the field
- Exceptional technical literacy, comfortable navigating complex technical conversations, parsing nuanced skill sets, and understanding the architecture of software and AI roles
- Proven experience sourcing talent in highly dynamic and fast-paced environments where priorities shift and ambiguity is constant
- A builder's instinct for AI: eager to adopt new tools, automate your own workflow, and experiment with how AI can make sourcing faster and sharper
- Creativity and resilience: the ability to design novel sourcing strategies, test new methods, and adapt quickly when faced with challenges
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to build trust and develop relationships with both candidates and internal partner teams
- A mindset that thrives on curiosity, iteration, and impact, aligned with Perplexity AI's ethos of building what has never been built before

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