Sr. Technical Recruiter
About the role
Senior Technical Recruiter responsible for owning hiring for AssemblyAI's Research team and senior Engineering roles, with outbound-focused sourcing and collaboration with research/engineering leadership.
Responsibilities
- Own full-cycle recruiting for Research and senior Engineering roles, from intake through offer and close
- Build deep, outbound-first pipelines: map talent at frontier labs, speech and audio teams, and academic groups; track publications, open-source contributors, and conference speakers
- Partner with research and engineering leaders to define profiles, calibrate on bar, and design quality, efficient interview loops
- Run thoughtful screens with technical candidates and give hiring managers sharp, evidence-based reads
- Lead complex closes: competing offers from large labs, equity conversations, and international candidates, in partnership with the People team
- Build long-term relationships with candidates who aren’t ready to move yet
- Use data and AI tooling to work faster: smarter sourcing, cleaner Greenhouse pipelines, and clear reporting on funnel health
- Help the team scale: interviewer training, structured kits, and a candidate experience that reflects how much we care about the work
Qualifications
- 5+ years of technical recruiting, with a track record of hiring ML researchers, research engineers, or ML/infrastructure engineers at AI labs, AI-native startups, or top tech companies
- A strong outbound sourcing practice and a network in the ML/AI research community
- Enough technical fluency to talk credibly about model training, evaluation, and inference with researchers, and to tell a strong profile from a keyword match
- Experience closing senior, sought-after candidates against competing offers, including equity-heavy packages
- Comfort with Greenhouse, LinkedIn Recruiter, JuiceBox (or similar), and modern AI sourcing tools
- Self-direction: you find the highest-impact work and do it without waiting to be asked
Skills
About AssemblyAI
APIs for AI models
AssemblyAI is an applied AI company. We research, train, and deploy State-of-the-Art AI models for developers and product teams to integrate into their products/apps. Today, we offer AI models for audio transcription, content moderation, summarization, topic detection, and many other tasks. We are working towards building the "Stripe for AI models" - where developers and product teams will be able to easily access State-of-the-Art AI through a simple API. We're a fully remote team of AI researchers and ML engineers, and have raised over $65M in funding from top investors including Accel, Insight Partners, Y Combinator, John/Patrick Collison, Daniel Gross, and Nat Friedman.
More open roles at AssemblyAI
- Digital Native AI Account Executive5d agoHybrid (New York / San Francisco) · Operations
- Senior Researcher5d agoHybrid (Remote (US)) · Operations
- Digital Native AI Account Executive5d agoHybrid (New York City, NY and San Francisco, CA) · Operations
- Digital Native AI Account Executive5d agoHybrid (New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA) · Operations
- Head of GTM, Europe5d agoHybrid (London, United Kingdom) · Operations