Technical Recruiter

About the role

The AI Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Traversal is responsible for troubleshooting, remediation, and prevention of complex production incidents. Traversal is known for its mission to free engineers from endless firefighting and enabling them to focus on creative, high-impact work. The company's roots are in AI research, and they assemble a talented team including researchers from prestigious institutions and industry veterans.

Responsibilities

• Own full-cycle recruiting for assigned roles, initially within EPD and Research: manage everything from intake through offer, including sourcing, screening, and closing
• Partner with leaders to build hiring strategy: calibrate role scope, must-haves, and success profiles, and translate them into effective sourcing and screening plans
• Build and manage active pipelines by proactively sourcing and engaging top candidates, rather than relying solely on inbound applications
• Drive a best-in-class candidate experience, ensuring every candidate has a thoughtful, well-communicated process
• Improve recruiting process and infrastructure by building playbooks that scale with the team
• Represent Traversal acting as a strong ambassador for the company in every candidate interaction

Requirements

• 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, ideally including technical hiring at a startup or high-growth company
• Demonstrated ability to source and close candidates independently, without heavy reliance on inbound pipelines
• Strong stakeholder management skills; comfortable driving process with engineering, product, and design leaders
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• High degree of ownership and comfort operating with ambiguity and limited process
• Genuine curiosity about AI and enterprise software, with the ability to speak credibly to technical candidates

Nice to Have

• Recruiting experience at an early-stage (Series A/B) AI or developer tooling startup
• Experience recruiting for applied research or ML-heavy roles
• Familiarity with modern ATS and sourcing tools (e.g., Ashby, LinkedIn Recruiter, Gem)
• Experience building recruiting processes or playbooks from scratch
• Experience recruiting across multiple functions beyond engineering (e.g., go-to-market, operations)
• Experience with AI native recruiting tools (Juicebox, Metaview, etc.)

Benefits

Traversal offers competitive compensation, startup equity, health insurance, and additional benefits. The U.S. base salary range for this full-time, in-person role in New York is $170,000 - $250,000, plus equity and benefits. Individual compensation is determined by experience, skills, and job-related knowledge.