Contract Recruiter

Trellis AI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 55,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

Trellis AI is hiring a Contract Recruiter to scale our team quickly. This contract-to-hire role reports to the Head of Talent and involves a high-volume screening cadence across engineering, deployment, and go-to-market roles. You’ll be first human contact for candidates, shaping how Trellis is seen.

We value organized, fast, people-smart professionals who can talk to engineers and sales leaders alike. Join a startup with rapid growth and a direct impact on patient access to life-saving

Qualifications

• 3+ years of full-cycle or agency recruiting experience, ideally at a high-growth startup.
• Experience recruiting for technical and go-to-market roles.
• Comfort running a high volume of screens each week.
• Experience with Ashby or a similar ATS.
• Availability to start within one to two weeks.
• Based in San Francisco or able to work from our SF office is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Run recruiter screens: Own first-round conversations for a high volume of candidates, assess fit and sell the opportunity.
• Source top talent: Find and engage strong candidates through LinkedIn, referrals, and our networks.
• Manage the pipeline: Keep candidates moving through Ashby with fast, clear communication at every stage.
• Partner with hiring managers: Calibrate on what great looks like and share pipeline data and market feedback.
• Coordinate interviews: Schedule loops and ensure a great candidate experience.
• Keep it human: You’ll be the person candidates talk to; we don’t use AI screeners.

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

Agency recruiting

Technical recruiting

Go-to-market recruiting

Candidate sourcing

Interview coordination

Sourcing via LinkedIn

Ashby

Tools

Ashby

Job description

TRELLIS BUILDS AND DEPLOYS SELF-IMPROVING AGENTS TO GET PATIENTS ACCESS TO LIFE-SAVING MEDICINE.

Our AI agents process billions of dollars worth of therapies annually with patients in all fifty states. We do this by automating document intake, prior authorizations, and appeals at scale to streamline operations and accelerate care. We classify medical referrals, understand chart notes, and automate contract and reimbursement search to provide patients with accurate coverage determinations and cost responsibility. Think of us as the infrastructure behind how patients get their medications.

Trellis is a spinout from Stanford AI Lab and is backed by leading investors including YC, General Catalyst, Telesoft Partners, and executives at Google and Salesforce.

THE ROLE

We're hiring a Contract Recruiter to help us scale the team quickly. This is a contract-to-hire role reporting to Matt Halper (Head of Talent). You'll be in seat within one to two weeks and take on a high volume of recruiter screens across engineering, deployment, and go-to-market roles.

We're hiring across Forward Deployed Engineering, Software Engineering, Security, Deployments, Sales, and Operations. You'll be the first human conversation most candidates have with Trellis, so how you show up shapes how they see us.

Compensation: This is an hourly contract role, with a path to full-time employment.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Run recruiter screens: Own first-round conversations for a high volume of candidates, assess fit, and sell the opportunity
• Source top talent: Find and engage strong candidates through LinkedIn, referrals, and our networks
• Manage the pipeline: Keep candidates moving through Ashby with fast, clear communication at every stage
• Partner with hiring managers: Calibrate on what great looks like and share pipeline data and market feedback
• Coordinate interviews: Schedule loops and make sure every candidate has a great experience
• Keep it human: We don't use AI screeners. You'll be the person candidates talk to.

ABOUT YOU

You're organized, fast, and great with people. You can talk to an engineer and a sales leader in the same afternoon and get to the heart of what makes each a fit. You like startup pace and you take ownership of your pipeline.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING

• 3+ years of full-cycle or agency recruiting experience, ideally at a high-growth startup
• Experience recruiting for technical and go-to-market roles
• Comfort running a high volume of screens each week
• Experience with Ashby or a similar ATS
• Availability to start within one to two weeks
• Based in San Francisco or able to work from our SF office is strongly preferred

WHY WORK WITH US

• Real impact at massive scale: We serve patients in all fifty states and are scaling to hundreds of healthcare locations. Every hire you help make means more patients starting therapy sooner.
• Incredible growth and traction: We've grown revenue 10x in the past few months alone.
• Work with the founding team: Partner directly with founders and F500 customers, alongside healthcare operations leaders who have overseen 50+ locations.
• Be at the forefront of AI in healthcare: Work on production-grade agentic systems that make critical healthcare decisions, not a demo.
• World-class team: Join teammates who have won international physics olympiads, published economics research, were founding engineers at unicorn startups, and taught AI classes to hundreds of Stanford graduate students.