Senior Technical Recruiter (6-month contract)

Senpilot; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Senpilot is seeking a Senior Technical Recruiter to own full-cycle hiring for senior and staff engineers across the United States and Canada. This role partners with engineering leadership to identify, engage, and close top AI-forward technical talent in a fast-growing environment.

The position is hybrid with weekly in-person collaboration in our Toronto-area office and ongoing remote elements. You will leverage data-driven recruiting strategies and AI-enhanced tools to optimize the candidate

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, with a strong track record hiring senior and staff-level software engineers.
• Experience recruiting inside a fast-growing company, comfortable operating with ambiguity and shifting priorities.
• Hands-on experience sourcing and hiring inside the United States and Canada.
• Genuine enthusiasm for AI and comfort using AI tools in recruitment.

Responsibilities

• Build and run proactive sourcing strategies to identify and engage hard-to-find senior and staff developer talent, going beyond inbound applicants.
• Own full-cycle recruiting for senior and staff engineering roles, from intake through offer negotiation and close, partnering with engineering leadership at every stage.
• Represent Senpilot's mission and culture to senior technical candidates in competitive markets.
• Track pipeline health and hiring metrics, using data to continuously refine sourcing and process.

Skills

Technical recruiting

Talent sourcing

Stakeholder management

Negotiation

Job description

Senpilot builds AI agents that help utilities operate smarter, faster, and more reliably, automating everything from engineering workflows to regulatory filings and compliance. Our mission is to create the intelligence layer for the modern grid: AI systems that understand utility data, reason across it, and act autonomously to improve safety, resilience, and efficiency.

We are building production-grade intelligence that sits at the heart of how critical infrastructure is planned, monitored, and regulated, helping utilities unlock the next generation of reliability.

Joining Senpilot means joining a small, high-performance team that combines deep expertise in AI systems, data engineering, and energy infrastructure. We focus on generating value and we run toward the hard problems because that's where the value is. If you want to join a fast-growing team and help build the future of intelligent infrastructure, this is the place to do it.

The Role

We’re looking for a Senior Technical Recruiter, with experience hiring technical positions in the United States and Canada, to own full-cycle hiring for our most critical roles as we scale. You'll partner with our engineering team, specializing in identifying, engaging, and closing senior and staff-level software engineers in a competitive market for AI-forward talent.

We're looking for someone who is well versed in finding top talent, landing them with a well‑crafted cold outreach message, building genuine rapport, and closing them against competing offers. If the search lights you up as much as the win does, you'll thrive here.

This is an initial 6-month contract with the possibility of becoming full-time.

What you’ll do

• Build and run proactive sourcing strategies to identify and engage hard‑to‑find senior and staff developer talent, going well beyond inbound applicants.
• Own full-cycle recruiting for senior and staff engineering roles, from intake through offer negotiation and close, partnering closely with engineering leadership at every stage.
• Represent Senpilot's mission and culture compellingly to senior technical candidates in competitive talent markets
• Track pipeline health and hiring metrics, using data to continuously refine sourcing and process.

What you’ll bring

• 5+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, with a strong track record hiring senior and staff-level software engineers.
• Experience recruiting inside a fast-growing company, comfortable operating with ambiguity and shifting priorities.
• Hands‑on experience sourcing and hiring EPD positions in the United States and Canada.
• Genuine fluency and enthusiasm for how AI is changing both software engineering and the recruiting function, and comfort using AI tools in your own workflow.
• Proven ability to build and manage passive candidate pipelines through creative, proactive sourcing.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, able to partner with engineering leaders as a strategic advisor rather than an order‑taker.
• Sharp judgment for technical talent assessment, even without a deep engineering background yourself.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills, particularly around structuring and closing competitive offers for senior candidates.
• A bias toward action and ownership, consistent with working on a small, high-performance team.

Work Location

We Appreciate the flexibility of hybrid work, and we also value the energy that comes from being in the same room. Our team gathers at our office in downtown Toronto once a week. If you're able to join us in person on those days, we'd love to hear from you.

What is in for you

The estimated annual base salary range for this role in Canada is $100,000 CAD - $130,000 CAD. Actual salaries may vary within the range, or above or below it, based on factors such as experience, skills, location, and business needs.

AI at Senpilot

AI is embedded in how we work, and we encourage our team to lean on it to learn new skills, sharpen their craft, and put their energy toward the work that genuinely moves the needle.

That extends to how we hire. We bring AI into our recruitment process not to take the humanity out of it, but to keep things organized and smooth so the experience feels more personal, not less. It gives our team room to focus on the parts that count: genuine conversations and well thought decisions. Above all, every decision is made by real people, drawing on genuine understanding, and rooted in our values and culture.

Senpilot is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive and diverse workforce. Accommodations are available upon request during the recruitment process.