Technical Recruiter
Role Overview
This mid-level Technical Recruiter role involves full-cycle recruiting for technical positions such as Research Engineers and Software Engineers at an AI research lab. Day-to-day responsibilities include sourcing passive candidates, managing pipelines, conducting interviews, and negotiating offers, while partnering with hiring managers to forecast needs and refine processes. The hire will directly impact scaling the team and building a strong company culture in a competitive AI market.
Perks & Benefits
The role offers remote work within the USA or hybrid options in Mountain View, CA, with flexible work arrangements and health coverage. It provides competitive salary and equity, along with opportunities for career growth by helping define AI infrastructure and building recruiting systems. The culture values diverse perspectives and independent operation in a fast-paced startup environment.
Full Job Description
About Bespoke Labs
Bespoke Labs is an applied AI research lab pioneering data and RL environment curation for training and evaluating agents.
Recently, we curated Open Thoughts, one of the best open reasoning datasets used by multiple frontier labs, trained SOTA specialized models such as Bespoke-MiniChart-7B and Bespoke-MiniCheck, and taught agents to do multi-turn tool-calling with reinforcement learning.
Bespoke is uniquely positioned to capture a large market share of data and RL environment curation.
About the Role
We're looking for a Technical Recruiter to own full-cycle recruiting across engineering, research, and operations roles. You'll source and close top talent in a competitive AI hiring market, partner closely with hiring managers, and help build the systems and culture that make Bespoke a place great people want to join.
What you'll do
Own end-to-end recruiting for technical roles (Research Engineers, Research scientists, Software engineers, Product engineers, and more)
Source passive candidates through creative outreach, referrals, and community engagement
Manage candidate pipeline, interviews, and offer negotiations
Build and refine recruiting processes as we scale
Partner with leadership to forecast hiring needs and prioritize roles
What we're looking for
3+ years of technical recruiting experience, ideally at a startup or in AI/ML
Strong sourcing skills and a network in the AI/engineering talent market
Ability to move fast, operate independently, and wear multiple hats
Excellent judgment on candidate quality and culture fit
Familiarity with AI/ML roles and terminology
Ability to hire for non-technical roles (e.g. operations) is nice to have.
Logistics
Location: Remote (only USA) or Mountain View, CA (Hybrid).
Compensation: Competitive salary and equity based on experience.
Benefits: Health coverage, flexible work arrangements, and the opportunity to help define a new product category in AI infrastructure
We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every qualification. We value diverse perspectives and are happy to discuss how your unique background could be a great fit for this role.
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