We are looking for a Founding Recruiter with 4+ years of experience to be the first dedicated talent hire at a Sequoia-backed Series A AI infrastructure company that just came out of stealth. You'll be the sole owner of recruiting, responsible for helping the company double headcount every six months, primarily by sourcing and closing exceptional engineers in New York. This is a sourcing-heavy, builder's role: no separate sourcing function, no rec-ops team, just you, partnering directly with the founders to fill critical technical roles. You'll need to be creative, hungry, and sharp enough to conduct initial technical screens that save engineers' time. If you thrive in high-intensity environments and want to define the talent engine at a company solving the hardest problem in enterprise AI, this is your opportunity.
What will you be doing?
Owning end-to-end technical recruiting with a heavy emphasis on outbound sourcing across LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, Twitter, and Reddit to fill 4-5 engineering roles per month
Conducting initial technical screens to assess candidates' relevance, evaluating language experience, AI background, and fit before passing to engineering
Building the entire recruiting infrastructure from scratch: ATS (Ashby), sourcing workflows, interview loops, and candidate experience
Sitting with founders and hiring managers in-office to participate in real-time hiring decisions and calibration
Balancing the engineering team between New York and London, with immediate priority on growing the New York engineering headcount
- 2-5 years of experience sourcing and closing engineering hires at high-growth tech startups
- Experience recruiting engineers at early-stage startups (Series A/B)
- Sourced and closed ML, infra, or backend engineering roles
- Expert sourcer on GitHub, Twitter, Reddit beyond LinkedIn
- Can technically screen engineers (languages, AI relevance)
- Built recruiting ops from scratch (ATS, pipelines, scorecards)
- Hungry, outbound-driven self-starter who thrives without structure
- Focus on sourcing technical roles, especially engineers in New York
- Must source creatively beyond LinkedIn (e.g., GitHub, Twitter)
- Onsite in New York for effective collaboration
- Proactive and resourceful, with a builder mindset