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Sr. Technical Recruiter (London)

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Hybrid (London)Full-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior technical recruiter based in London, focused on full-cycle recruitment for engineering and research roles across EMEA, with an emphasis on outbound sourcing, AI-assisted workflows, and close partnership with hiring managers and engineers.

Responsibilities

  • Full-cycle recruitment for engineering and research roles across EMEA Search, AI and Infrastructure
  • Build outbound first pipelines: advanced research, talent mapping across frontier labs and academia, referrals, AI-assisted automation, and creative outreach
  • Partner with hiring managers and engineers to calibrate profiles with accuracy and nuance, and to sharpen the bar as our teams evolve
  • Act as a candidate's first introduction to Perplexity, telling an authentic and compelling story about our mission, product, and culture
  • Track and analyze pipeline data to continuously improve sourcing strategy, and build your own tooling where off-the-shelf falls short
  • Operate with agility as priorities shift hard-to-fill roles, new pillars, and compressed timelines are the norm

Qualifications

  • 4 years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience
  • A sourcing-first track record: you fill hard roles through outbound and talent mapping
  • Strong technical literacy comfortable, holding credible conversations with senior engineers
  • A builder's instinct for AI: eager to adopt new tools, automate your own workflow, and experiment with how AI can make recruiting faster and sharper
  • Excellent communication and relationship-building skills with candidates, hiring managers, and cross-functional partners
  • A mindset that thrives on curiosity, iteration, and impact, aligned with Perplexity's ethos of building what has never been built before

Skills

Required:Full-cycle technical recruitingSourcing and outbound recruitmentTechnical literacyAI-assisted recruitment and automationCommunication and stakeholder management
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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