Sr. Technical Recruiter
Remote · USD 170,000-200,000 · 5+ years experience · Remote · Posted Oct 14, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 5+ years experience
- Workplace
- Remote
- Location
- Remote
- Salary
- USD 170,000-200,000
About the role
- AssemblyAI is seeking a Senior Technical Recruiter to own hiring for the Research team and a portfolio of senior Engineering roles, including Researchers, Research Engineers, and ML Engineers.
- The person in this role will work directly with research and engineering leaders to find, assess, and close candidates others cannot.
Responsibilities
- Own full-cycle recruiting for Research and senior Engineering roles, from intake through offer and close
- Build deep, outbound-first pipelines by mapping talent at frontier labs, speech and audio teams, and academic groups, and tracking 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 including 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 through smarter sourcing, cleaner Greenhouse pipelines, and clear reporting on funnel health
- Help the team scale through interviewer training, structured kits, and a candidate experience that reflects company values
Requirements
- 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 to find the highest-impact work and do it without waiting to be asked
Benefits
- Competitive equity grants
- 100% employer-paid benefits
Workplace
- Position is remote.
- Salary range applies to candidates located in the United States; compensation ranges may differ for candidates outside of the U.S.
Skills
- Greenhouse
- LinkedIn Recruiter
- JuiceBox
- AI Sourcing Tools
