Technical Recruiter

Responsibilities

Own full-cycle recruiting for technical roles, including software engineering, infrastructure, applied AI, full-stack, and product engineering.

Build high-quality outbound sourcing pipelines for top technical talent.

Source candidates from AI labs, high-growth startups, big tech, quant firms, and elite universities.

Partner with founders and hiring managers to define role requirements, interview loops, scorecards, and hiring strategy.

Run candidate processes end-to-end, including outreach, screens, coordination, feedback collection, offer support, and closing.

Create a high-touch candidate experience that reflects AfterQuery’s bar, speed, and culture.

Track and improve recruiting funnel metrics, including response rates, pass-through rates, offer acceptance, and time to hire.

Help build the foundation of AfterQuery’s recruiting function, including systems, templates, workflows, and talent market maps.

Required Qualifications

• 1+ years of experience in technical recruiting, ideally at a high-growth startup, AI company, top tech company, or technical recruiting agency.
• Prominent ability to source, engage, and close strong engineering candidates in competitive markets.
• Strong understanding of technical roles across software engineering, infrastructure, full-stack, applied AI, and systems/product engineering.
• Experience building outbound sourcing pipelines from scratch.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong judgment on candidate quality, calibration, culture fit, and hiring urgency.
• High agency, strong ownership, and comfort operating in a fast-moving startup environment.
• Experience partnering directly with founders, executives, or senior hiring managers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience recruiting for AI, ML, data infrastructure, developer tools, quant, or frontier technology companies.
• Strong network across engineering, AI, startup, university, or quant communities.
• Experience hiring founding engineers, senior engineers, infrastructure engineers, or other hard-to-close technical talent.
• Comfortable with LinkedIn Recruiter, ATS systems, sourcing tools, email sequencing tools, and AI-assisted recruiting workflows.
• Experience improving interview processes, scorecards, calibration systems, or candidate experience.
• Startup experience preferred.