Technical Recruiter

About the role

We are a small team at Krea, dedicated to building next-generation AI creative tools that empower human creativity. We were founded with the mission to make AI intuitive and controllable for creatives, rather than replacing their work. We've secured significant funding from leading investors like a16z and Bain Capital, and we currently work in-person at our waterfront office in San Francisco.

Responsibilities

• Build pipelines through direct outreach, communities, events, and referrals — including channels most recruiters don't use.
• Evaluate candidates with real technical depth: read their repos, research, and past work.
• Run the full process: screening, scheduling, offers, and closing.
• Track the talent landscape to understand where strong people are, how the market is moving, and what candidates care about.
• Write job descriptions and shape the candidate experience so the outside world understands who we are.

Requirements

• 4+ years of technical recruiting experience closing strong engineering, ML, or AI candidates.
• Able to look at a GitHub profile or research paper and form a real opinion.
• Organized, fast, and don't let things fall through the cracks.

Qualifications

• Strong candidates may have experience with sourcing across industry, academia, and less obvious corners of the internet.
• Building or maintaining a strong network in ML / AI / infra.
• Experience with early-stage or founder-led hiring.
• Evaluating technical work directly—architecture decisions, experiments, research.

Skills

• Exceptional technical recruiting skills.
• Ability to evaluate candidates based on technical merit.
• Strong networking and sourcing abilities.
• Experience with early-stage or founder-led hiring.
• Understanding of ML, AI, and infrastructure.

Benefits

• Visa support (STEM OPT, OPT, H-1B, O-1, E-3).
• Close collaboration with a world-class engineering and research team.
• Real ownership over how we hire and grow.
• Competitive compensation (75th percentile) with meaningful equity.

Pay

Competitive compensation (75th percentile) with meaningful equity.

Schedule

Full-time position.