Senior Recruiter

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

The talent team at Merge is small focused and deeply embedded with the companys research and technical leadership. We are building the early recruiting foundation for a frontier interdisciplinary lab where every hire can shape the trajectory of the company. Our hiring spans bioengineering neuroscience machine learning engineering and adjacent scientific and technical disciplines that contribute to building brain-computer interfaces that bridge biological and artificial intelligence.

About the role

We are hiring a Senior Recruiter to own research and scientific recruiting across some of Merges most impactful roles. This is a full-cycle recruiting role for someone who enjoys hard searches ambiguous technical domains passive candidate sourcing and close partnership with research leaders. You will help translate frontier research needs into hiring strategies build talent maps across academia and industry engage exceptional candidates and create a rigorous high-trust candidate experience.

This role is ideal for a recruiter who has hired for specialized technical or scientific teams and wants to operate close to the research frontier. You do not need to be a neuroscientist or ML researcher but you should be intellectually curious rigorous and comfortable learning enough of a domain to recruit credibly.

In this role you will:

• 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 Merges stage and mission.

• Drive a structured and high-signal hiring process including interview coordination feedback loops scorecard quality and closing strategy.

• Represent Merges 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.

You might thrive in this role if you have:

• 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.

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.

For more information about hiring at Merge please visit our Hiring FAQ

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

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Senior IC