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Technical Sourcer

Own sourcing strategy and build talent pipelines for engineering and research roles at a fast-moving AI startup. Requires 3+ years of technical sourcing experience and ability to evaluate engineering talent through GitHub, papers, and open source.

Salary not listed
On-site3+ YOERecruiting

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Own sourcing strategy for engineering and research roles across the stack, systems, ML, infrastructure, security, and beyond
  • Build and maintain deep talent maps of the best engineers in key hiring areas
  • Find passive candidates through technical communities, papers, open source contributions, and original research
  • Write outreach that engineers actually respond to, specific, credible, and genuinely interesting
  • Partner with hiring managers and recruiters to understand hiring needs
  • Track pipeline data to continuously sharpen sourcing precision
  • Help the company show up in the right places — technical communities, conferences, and conversations

Requirements

  • 3+ years of engineering sourcing or research-focused recruiting experience for technical roles, ideally at a fast-moving startup
  • Ability to read a GitHub profile, skim a research paper, or parse an engineering blog and understand what makes someone exceptional
  • Strong intuitions about where great engineers live online and how to reach them
  • Precise operator: organized, data-literate, and good at using signal to cut noise
  • Default to curiosity and ask why something matters
  • Comfortable operating with high autonomy in a fast-moving environment

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience sourcing for AI, compiler, or systems roles
  • Built sourcing programs or pipelines from scratch
  • Personal network inside research or open source communities

Skills

Talent SourcingTechnical RecruitingGithub AnalysisResearch Paper EvaluationPipeline TrackingData AnalysisOutreach WritingTalent Mapping

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