Build what's next on the AI Native Cloud. Full-stack AI platform for inference, fine-tuning, and GPU clusters — powered by cutting-edge research. Backed by General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins and NEA.
About the role
This is not a traditional sourcing role. We're looking for someone who was an engineer first and wants to put that technical depth to work finding and winning the best engineers in the market. You will own proactive outbound sourcing only the top 1% technical talent in the Bay Area and our other hubs identifying them, reaching them, and judging their work on its merits before anyone else does. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- A hands-on engineering background - you've worked as an engineer of some kind. A CS degree is a strong plus
- The ability to read a GitHub profile and glean real signal about someone's depth and quality
- Enough current technical fluency to run a deep, credible first call with a strong engineer
- Persistence, hustle, and resilience - you're energized by outbound and unfazed by rejection
- Strong written communication that gets busy engineers to reply
- Based in San Francisco
More about this role
This is not a traditional sourcing role. We're looking for someone who was an engineer first and wants to put that technical depth to work finding and winning the best engineers in the market. You will own proactive outbound sourcing only the top 1% technical talent in the Bay Area and our other hubs identifying them, reaching them, and judging their work on its merits before anyone else does.
You'll build and run outreach campaigns, keep pipelines full for specific engineering roles, and bring a steady, systematic hustle to it. What sets this role apart is that you can evaluate technical talent. You can read a GitHub profile and see the signal in it. You can run a genuinely technical first call, get into the nuts and bolts of what someone built and their level of ownership, and tell the difference between top-tier and the rest after a single conversation.
You'll report directly to the hiring manager on a tight-knit team of six, with visibility and room to grow into ownership of how we source and evaluate engineering talent. We'll teach you the recruiting craft - the technical judgment is what you bring.
- Build and maintain pipelines of top-1% engineering talent for specific open...
Browse similar: AI jobs · AI startup jobs · Startup jobs · San Francisco Bay Area