Talent Partner

Merge Labs is a frontier research lab with the mission of bridging biological and artificial intelligence to maximize human ability agency and experience. Were pursuing this goal by developing fundamentally new approaches to brain-computer interfaces that interact with the brain at high bandwidth integrate with advanced AI and are ultimately safe and accessible for anyone to use.

About the team

Merge Labs People team hires and develops extraordinary scientists engineers and operators then build the systems that let them do the best work of their careers rigorously safely and with deep focus and creativity. Our scope spans recruiting talent development manager enablement org design total rewards and people operations. We are thought partners and bar-raisers: clear principles evidence-based decisions and respectful candor ensure that talent and culture compound into a long-term strategic advantage.

About the role

As Talent Partner youll own full-cycle recruiting across highly diverse roles from wet-lab scientists and research associates to ML engineers and hardware specialists. You will partner closely with hiring managers from initial scoping and sourcing to structured assessment and close. Experience in BCI/neurotech biotech or AI is a plus but search craft and deep passion for continuously raising our talent bar is a must-have.

In this role you will:

• Act as a strategic partner coach and project manager to hiring managers across a wide range of experience levels.

• Run expert intakes; translate scientific and engineering needs into clear calibrated role definitions search strategies and scorecards.

• Build proactive pipelines and talent maps; deliver calibrated slates on tight timelines; engage exceptional talent across communities.

• Partner with hiring teams to design high-signal candidate evaluation tactics and execute crisp effective closing strategies.

• Lead candidate closes end-to-end from initial touchpoint through acceptance.

• Implement SLAs dashboards and runbooks; run post-mortems and ship fixes; inform broader organizational processes such as workforce and compensation planning.

• Mentor junior teammates as we scale the function.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have demonstrated success in full-cycle recruiting with a heavy focus on senior research/engineering roles at a fast-paced BCI/neurotech biotech or AI company; credible fluency with research techniques and settings.

• Have a track record of closing complex offer negotiations with confidence using a structured process resulting in strong acceptance rates.

• Are comfortable operating independently in ambiguity and an instinct to build durable yet simple processes and systems.

• Have exceptional written and verbal communication; respectful candor; values-aligned decision-making.

• Are obsessed with quality and craft and feel deep ownership over building a world-class organization with an exceptionally high talent bar.

• Bring deep enduring curiosity and a relentless learners mindset to everything you do.

If youre excited about this role but dont meet every qualification please apply. As we build were hiring for complementary strengths to form a high-impact team.

Merge Labs does not discriminate on the basis of race color religion national origin age sex sexual orientation gender gender identity gender expression marital status physical or mental disability medical condition genetic information family status ancestry citizenship U.S. military (state and federal) and veteran status or any other legally protected status. It is our intention that all applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions are based on job related factors. We are an equal opportunity employer.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities and requests can be made by emailing