Technical Sourcer
San Francisco, CANew York, NYOnsite3+ YOE
Summary
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.
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