# Technical Sourcer

**Company:** [Cursor](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/cursor)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** Recruiting
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Talent Sourcing, Technical Recruiting, Github Analysis, Research Paper Evaluation, Pipeline Tracking, Data Analysis, Outreach Writing, Talent Mapping
**Posted:** 2026-06-16

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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

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