Full-cycle Technical Recruiter (Hybrid, contract)
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Job Location:
Palo Alto, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
8 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Our client is an AI lab headquartered in Palo Alto CA. . The team is approximately 160 employees as of 2026 -- lean high-output and scaling. This recruiter will sit at the core of their technical hiring engine. The work directly impacts product capability and the companys long-term AI research moat. This is a full-cycle technical recruiting role. The person we place will own searches end to end partnering with engineering leadership running process evaluating candidates and closing.
LOGISTICS
This role is onsite Monday Wednesday and Friday each week at the clients Palo Alto office. Confirm commutability and schedule alignment before advancing any candidate.
WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE IN THIS ROLE
- Partners directly with engineering leadership on technically complex often ambiguous searches
- Understands enough about distributed systems ML research and AI/ML signal to evaluate candidates beyond keyword matching
- Can calibrate for quality in roles where job descriptions are loose and the bar is set by the hiring teams judgment not a rubric
- Earns credibility with specialized technical leaders and researchers quickly
- Comfortable sitting with uncertainty on specialized searches and working through it without defaulting to volume
Qualifications :
- senior technical recruiters who have worked at high-growth mid-to-late stage AI or infrastructure-focused startups.
- direct ownership of hard technical searches in fast-moving research-forward environments.
The recruiter must have direct full-cycle experience hiring for:
- Applied AI and ML engineering
- Research-oriented engineering roles (research engineers applied scientists and adjacent functions)
- Distributed systems engineering
- Infrastructure roles tied to core AI capability
- This is high-bar relatively low-volume hiring. The person needs to be calibration-focused not throughput-focused.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Contract
Key Skills
- Sourcing
- Talent Acquisition
- Taleo
- ATS
- HR Sourcing
- Interviewing
- Lever
- iCIMS
- Human Resources
- negotiation
- Contracts
- Recruiting
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