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Senior Recruiter

Merge Labs· Finance, Legal, Operations, People
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San Francisco Bay Area$120k - $200kFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Senior Recruiter owning research and scientific recruiting across bioengineering, neuroscience, ML, engineering, and adjacent technical domains for Merge Labs’ frontier research organization.

Responsibilities

  • Own full-cycle recruiting for research and scientific roles across bioengineering, neuro, ML, engineering, and adjacent technical areas.
  • Partner with hiring managers to define role scope, must-have criteria, interview plans, and candidate evaluation rubrics.
  • Build targeted sourcing strategies for passive candidates across companies, labs, universities, publications, conferences, and research networks.
  • Create and maintain talent maps for priority domains, including candidate archetypes, companies/labs of interest, and outreach narratives.
  • Screen candidates for motivation, trajectory, technical relevance, communication, and fit with Merge’s stage and mission.
  • Drive a structured and high-signal hiring process, including interview coordination, feedback loops, scorecard quality, and closing strategy.
  • Represent Merge’s mission with depth, clarity, and honesty to candidates considering academia, large labs, startups, or other frontier opportunities.
  • Use data to diagnose bottlenecks, improve hiring manager alignment, and increase search quality and velocity.
  • Help build the recruiting infrastructure of an early talent function: templates, process, reporting, candidate experience norms, and operating cadence.

Qualifications

  • Experience owning multiple challenging pipelines end-to-end, including meaningful ownership of technical, scientific, research, or highly specialized roles.
  • A track record of sourcing and closing passive candidates in competitive talent markets.
  • Strong hiring manager partnership: you can clarify ambiguous needs, push for prioritization, and keep teams aligned.
  • Deep expertise in at least one relevant scientific or technical domain and comfort learning unfamiliar technical domains and translating them into search strategy.
  • Excellent candidate communication, especially with senior, skeptical, and highly sought-after candidates.
  • Strong process discipline: clean pipelines, clear follow-up, structured notes, and data-informed prioritization.
  • High integrity and sound judgment when representing candidates, compensation, timelines, and company stage.
  • Excitement about building recruiting systems in a small, high-ownership team.

Skills

Required:Full-cycle recruitingSourcing strategyStakeholder managementDomain learning agility
Last updated Jul 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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