AI Technical Recruiter

Output Biosciences; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Job summary

Output Biosciences is seeking a full‑cycle recruiter to build our team at the intersection of AI and biology. You will source, screen, and close candidates across AI research, computational biology, and drug discovery leadership.

You will own the ATS, shape screening processes, and represent Output at major events like NeurIPS, ICML, and ICLR to build a strong talent network while coordinating offers and equity discussions with founders.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting with a focus on AI/ML, research, or engineering roles.
• Proven track record sourcing and closing niche technical talent in competitive markets.
• Ability to screen AI/ML and computational biology candidates credibly, including publication records and research depth.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end recruiting across all roles from sourcing to closing.
• Build and maintain candidate pipelines through proactive sourcing and relationships.
• Conduct first-round screening interviews to evaluate technical depth in AI/ML and biology.
• Design, improve screening frameworks and interview processes.
• Represent Output at AI and biotech venues to build relationships with researchers and students.
• Partner with founders to define roles and hiring strategy, ensuring a rigorous process.
• Maintain the ATS and ensure clean pipeline data for progress tracking.
• Manage offers, compensation discussions, and equity negotiations.

Skills

End-to-end recruiting

AI/ML recruiting

Sourcing

Interviewing

ATS management

Tools

Ashby

Greenhouse

Job description

The Role

Output has built a biological reasoning model that understands biology at the scale and complexity life actually operates. Our model independently learned the principles of molecular interactions, opening up drug treatments that were previously impossible. We are already generating therapies that traditional approaches cannot reach. The hardest problems in both AI and biology are being solved here, and there is room for you to own one.

Output is currently in stealth, operated by a team of repeat founders and biotech veterans with multiple exits in AI × Bio, and backed by top‑tier VCs including Y Combinator.

You will build Output's team. This is a full‑cycle recruiting role covering every hire from AI research scientists to computational biologists to drug discovery leads. You need to understand both the AI/ML research community and the biotech talent landscape well enough to source, screen, and close candidates who work at the intersection of the two.

• Own end‑to‑end recruiting across all roles: sourcing, outreach, screening, managing interview loops, and closing.
• Build and maintain a candidate pipeline through proactive sourcing, networking, and long‑term relationship building with researchers and scientists in AI, biology, and drug discovery.
• Conduct first‑round screening interviews, evaluating candidates with enough technical fluency to distinguish real depth from surface familiarity in AI/ML and computational biology.
• Design and continuously improve screening frameworks and interview processes, ensuring Output identifies exceptional talent efficiently and consistently.
• Represent Output at key venues including AI conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR) and biotech events, building relationships with researchers, PhD students, and postdocs.
• Partner with the founders and hiring managers to define roles, set hiring strategy, and ensure every candidate experiences a rigorous and human process.
• Own and maintain the ATS, keeping pipeline data clean and using it to track progress, identify bottlenecks, and improve workflows.
• Manage the process through to offer: structuring competitive compensation packages, presenting offers to candidates, and handling negotiations on equity, salary, and terms.

About You

• 3+ years of full‑cycle technical recruiting experience with a meaningful focus on AI/ML, research, or engineering roles.
• Track record of sourcing and closing niche technical talent in highly competitive markets.
• Enough technical fluency in AI/ML to screen research candidates credibly: understand the difference between someone who has trained models and someone who has used APIs, and assess publication records and research depth.
• Comfortable building proactive sourcing strategies and cultivating long‑term candidate relationships, not just filling open roles.
• Familiarity with the AI/ML research community: key conferences, top labs, publication venues, and how researchers evaluate opportunities.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build trust with researchers and scientists who are skeptical of recruiting outreach.
• Working knowledge of startup compensation structures, including equity, vesting, and how to position offers competitively against well‑funded AI labs.
• Comfortable working in a stealth environment where brand recognition is limited and substance must sell the opportunity.

Bonus Points

• Experience recruiting in biotech, drug discovery, or computational biology in addition to AI/ML.
• First or early recruiter at a startup, building processes from scratch.
• Experience with ATS platforms (Ashby, Greenhouse, or similar).
• Experience building university partnerships or intern/new‑grad pipelines.
• Scientific or technical background that gives deeper candidate assessment ability.

Our Values

• Heart: We foster a culture of ownership. We are assembling a team of individuals who are passionate and take pride in their contributions.
• Excellence: We have an unwavering commitment to excellence and continuously challenge ourselves to reach the highest standards.
• Practicality: We value practicality and results‑oriented thinking. We are committed to making a tangible impact on the lives of patients and the broader community.
• Honesty: We place a high value on honesty and directness. We firmly believe in addressing issues as they arise, in an open and transparent manner.
• Fun: We believe that life is too short to not have fun. Our goal is to create a workplace that is fun, engaging, rewarding, and fulfilling.

What we offer

• We encourage new and different ideas, creativity, and contrarian thinking.
• Healthy feedback focused environment to help you strive—leadership will have high expectations, regularly share constructive feedback, support you, and welcome receiving feedback and ideas from you.
• You own your day‑to‑day management. What we care about is that we all hit our milestones.
• Competitive salary and equity in a growing, well‑funded startup.
• Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage.