Founding Tech Recruiter for Healthcare AI

Parakeet Health, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Relocation stipend

Annual fitness stipend

Free dinner

Gourmet snacks

Job summary

Parakeet Health, Inc. in San Francisco is seeking the company\'s first technical recruiter to own hiring end-to-end. You\'ll collaborate with the founders to define great talent, then build systems to find, attract, and close exceptional engineers across backend, AI/ML, infra, and data science.

You\'ll represent the brand for candidate outreach, design interview processes with founders, and drive a data-driven recruiting operation with a strong emphasis on culture and impact in healthcare AI.

Qualifications

• 5–7 years of technical recruiting with meaningful early-stage startup exposure (seed through Series B).
• A mix of agency and in-house backgrounds. You\'ve built pipelines from scratch, not just managed inbound flow.
• Proven track record hiring strong engineers across backend, AI/ML, infra, full-stack, data science.
• High agency, low ego. You don\'t wait for perfect instructions. You see a gap and fix it.
• Excellent written and verbal communicator. Concise, personal, persuasive.
• Hands-on fluency with modern AI sourcing tools. You know what saves real time and what\'s hype.
• Genuine curiosity about engineering and healthcare. You can talk with senior engineers about what they do and why it matters.
• Strong closer. You navigate competing offers, comp negotiations, and ambivalent candidates with calm and a plan.
• Operating discipline to run 6+ searches in parallel without dropping details.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end technical recruiting: sourcing, outreach, screening, coordination, offers, closing.
• Ensure candidate experience is personal, responsive, and reflects Parakeet Health values.
• Build talent brand and community with talks, dinners, and thoughtful outreach.
• Design and calibrate interviews with founders to keep the bar high and process tight.
• Develop closing strategies with the hiring manager before offers.
• Apply AI tooling to sourcing, drafting, and automation without losing the human touch.
• Maintain ATS discipline and data-driven decision making.
• Contribute to people operations like onboarding and employee experience.

Skills

Technical recruiting

Startup experience

Engineer hiring

Agency + in-house

AI sourcing tools

Excellent communicator

Closing skills

Parallel searches

Tools

ATS tools

AI sourcing tools

Candidate CRM

Job description

Parakeet Health, Inc. in San Francisco is seeking the company\'s first technical recruiter to own hiring end-to-end. You\'ll collaborate with the founders to define great talent, then build systems to find, attract, and close exceptional engineers across backend, AI/ML, infra, and data science.

You\'ll represent the brand for candidate outreach, design interview processes with founders, and drive a data-driven recruiting operation with a strong emphasis on culture and impact in healthcare AI.