Principal Technical Recruiter

Eve; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 185,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary & Equity

401(k) Matching

Health Insurance

Disability Insurance

Commuter Benefits

Autonomous Work Environment

Setup Reimbursement

Telecomm Stipend

Flexible Time Off

Team Gatherings

In-office Perks

Job summary

Eve in San Francisco is seeking a Principal Technical Recruiter to own hiring across Engineering, Product, and UX Design. You'll be a senior IC and partner with our leadership to run full-cycle searches, build sourcing strategies, and scale our AI talent pipeline.

You will evaluate candidates with deep technical fluency, lead interview loop design, and guide candidates through offers, driving an inclusive, data-driven hiring process that supports Eve's rapid growth.

Responsibilities

• Run full-cycle recruiting for roles across engineering, product, and UX design.
• Partner with hiring managers and executives to define role requirements and set timelines.
• Lead our approach to AI/ML hiring, including research engineers, applied scientists, ML infrastructure engineers, and AI product leaders.
• Assess technical depth in candidates, hold substantive conversations about systems, architecture, ML concepts, and design process, and give hiring teams sharp, well-reasoned signal.
• Design and continuously improve interview loops, scorecards, and structured evaluation for technical, product, and design roles.
• Close candidates: build compelling narratives, manage competing offers, and guide candidates through compensation and decision-making.
• Use data (pipeline metrics, conversion rates, time-to-hire, source effectiveness) to forecast, spot bottlenecks, and make the case for where to invest.
• Build and refine recruiting processes, tooling, and best practices as we scale, and mentor other recruiters and coordinators as the team grows.
• Champion an exceptional candidate experience and inclusive hiring practices.

Job description

About Eve

Eve is redefining legal technology for plaintiff law firms, and we're building the team that will take us there. We help firms handle more cases, recover more for clients, and grow with AI that works across every stage of a case, from intake through resolution. The next generation of great plaintiff firms will be AI-Native, and Eve is how they get there. But what makes Eve different isn't just the product. It's how we build it. If you're someone who takes ownership, stays curious, and wants to build AI that's already changing howlaw is practiced, this is where you belong.

Product-market fit: Eve is trusted by over 1000+ law firms, and we’re growing fast. Backed by top investors: We’ve raised over $160M from world-class partners including Spark Capital, Andreessen Horowitz (A16z), Menlo Ventures, and Lightspeed. Built by a world-class team: Engineers, designers, and operators from places like Scale, Meta, Airbnb, Cruise, Square, Rubrik, and Lyft are building Eve from the ground up. AI-Native from day one: We’re on the bleeding edge of AI, collaborating directly with teams at OpenAI and Anthropic to build best-in-class AI workflows tailored for legal work. Explosive growth: We are growing 2X revenue Quarter over Quarter.

We're hiring a Principal Technical Recruiter to own hiring across Engineering, Product, and UXDesign. You'll be a senior individual contributor and a strategic partner to our leadership team. You'll run full-cycle searches from intake to offer, and you'll also build the sourcing strategies, interview processes, and hiring playbooks that help us scale. You'll be especially important incompeting for AI and machine learning talent.

What You'll Do

• Run full-cycle recruiting for a broad range of roles across engineering (backend, frontend,infrastructure, security, data, mobile), product management, and product/UX design
• Partner with hiring managers and executives to define role requirements, calibrate onwhat "great" looks like, and set realistic timelines and expectationsSource and engage senior and hard-to-find candidates through creative outbound,community engagement, referrals, and your own network
• Lead our approach to AI/ML hiring, including research engineers, applied scientists, MLinfrastructure engineers, and AI product leaders
• Assess technical depth in candidates, hold substantive conversations about systems,architecture, ML concepts, and design process, and give hiring teams sharp, well-reasoned signal
• Design and continuously improve interview loops, scorecards, and structured evaluationfor technical, product, and design roles
• Close candidates: build compelling narratives, manage competing offers, and guidecandidates through compensation and decision-making
• Use data (pipeline metrics, conversion rates, time-to-hire, source effectiveness) toforecast, spot bottlenecks, and make the case for where to invest
• Build and refine recruiting processes, tooling, and best practices as we scale, and mentorother recruiters and coordinators as the team grows
• Champion an exceptional candidate experience and inclusive hiring practices

What We Are Looking For:

• 10+ years of technical recruiting experience, including significant time in-house athigh-growth startups (Seed through Series C+ or equivalent)
• Strong technical fluency: you can speak credibly with engineers about architecture,tradeoffs, and tech stacks, and you understand the differences between engineeringspecialties well enough to screen effectively
• Demonstrated experience partnering with engineers, product leaders, and executives in a startup environment, understanding the unique needs of a high-growth AI-focused organization.
• Proven track record sourcing and hiring AI/ML talent, including research scientists, MLengineers, and applied AI roles, and a genuine understanding of the AI landscape (LLMs,model training, inference, evals, MLOps, etc.)
• Experience recruiting across engineering, product, and design, with a strong grasp of howeach function evaluates talent
• Demonstrated success in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment where you've builtprocess from scratch and hired at speed without lowering the bar
• Expert-level sourcing skills: Boolean, GitHub, LinkedIn Recruiter, Juicebox, conferenceand community mapping, and creative outbound that gets responses from passivecandidates
• Excellent closing skills with senior and in-demand candidates, including competitive offersituations
• Strong communication and stakeholder management, with the credibility to push back onhiring managers and advise executives
• Data-driven approach to recruiting, with comfort in an ATS (Greenhouse preferred) andpipeline reporting

You Will Thrive in This Role If You Have:

• A genuine passion for relationship-building, with a people-first approach to recruiting.
• Deep knowledge of the Bay Area technical talent pool
• A strong technical foundation and ability to discuss technical roles and requirements effectively.
• A proactive, adaptable approach to solving recruitment challenges in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• High empathy and EQ, enabling you to connect meaningfully with both candidates and team members.
• A data-driven mindset, utilizing metrics to inform and enhance recruitment strategies.

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Eve and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and location.

US Salary Range

$185,000 - $220,000 USD

Benefits

• Competitive Salary & Equity
• 401(k) Program with Employer Matching
• Health, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance
• Short Term and Long Term Disability
• Commuter Benefits*
• Autonomous Work Environment
• Workplace Setup Reimbursement
• Telecomm Stipend
• Flexible Time Off (FTO) + Holidays
• Quarterly Team Gatherings
• In office Perks*

*In office employees only

Eve Legal is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation during the application process, reach out to your recruiter.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.