Recruiter

Phylo, Inc.; South San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity

Medical, dental & vision coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Unlimited PTO

Lunch & snacks in office

Team offsites

Culture of speed and excellence

Job summary

Phylo, Inc. is hiring its first in-house recruiter to own end-to-end hiring for business, scientific, and engineering roles. You will partner directly with Phylo’s founders and hiring managers to define talent profiles, source exceptional candidates, and close top talent with speed and humanity.

This hands-on role requires building pipelines, an operating system, and a scalable employer brand, using AI and automation to maximize impact as the team grows in the Bay Area.

Qualifications

• Five+ years of hands-on recruiting experience in fast-moving environments.
• Proven ability to source and close business, scientific, and engineering roles.
• Experience building pipelines and end-to-end hiring processes.
• Ability to work directly with founders and hiring managers.
• Comfort with AI, automation, and modern recruiting tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead full-cycle hiring across business, scientific, and engineering roles.
• Develop outbound pipelines and build relationships with tech companies, labs, and universities.
• Create a scalable recruiting operating system with structured interviews and clear rubrics.
• Manage candidate experience and ensure high-quality hires aligned with Phylo’s mission.
• Scale the recruiting function and brand as the company grows.

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

Talent sourcing

Employer branding

AI-assisted recruiting

Stakeholder partnership

Vendor management

Tools

ATS

Job description

About Phylo

Phylo is an applied research lab building agentic intelligence to accelerate discovery for every biomedical scientist. We believe AI agents will fundamentally transform how biomedical research is done. Our fast-growing team brings together researchers and engineers across AI and biology, commercializing the Biomni platform.
Our growing team brings together world class researchers and engineers across AI and biology. Backed by a $13.5M seed round led by a16z, Menlo Ventures and Anthropic, and advised by Nobel Prize laureate and pioneering biologists, Phylo is building the next generation of AI systems for the life sciences.

About the Role

We’re hiring our first in-house recruiter— someone who will personally lead our most important searches while building the recruiting function around them.

You will own recruiting end to end across business, scientific, and engineering roles, from defining talent profiles and sourcing exceptional candidates through interviews, offers, and close. You’ll work directly with Phylo’s founders and hiring managers to build a rigorous, fast, and distinctly human hiring process.

This is a hands-on role. You should be excited to spend much of your time finding and engaging exceptional people—not simply managing agencies or administering a process. Over time, you will build the systems, employer brand, and team needed to support Phylo’s growth.

What you’ll do as our first recruiter at Phylo:

• Lead hiring end to end. Own full-cycle recruiting across business, scientific, and engineering roles—from defining talent profiles and building pipelines through interviews, offers, and close.

• Build exceptional outbound pipelines. Develop creative sourcing strategies for senior and specialized roles, building trusted relationships across leading technology companies, research labs, biotech organizations, and academic institutions.

• Build Phylo’s recruiting operating system. Establish role calibration, structured interview loops, clear rubrics, interviewer training, and reliable reporting. Own the ATS as the source of truth and continually improve speed, quality, and candidate experience.

• Protect the bar and close exceptional people. Help hiring teams recognize capability beyond pedigree, maintain consistent standards, and communicate Phylo’s mission and opportunity credibly to candidates from different professional and technical backgrounds.

• Scale our talent function thoughtfully. Build Phylo’s employer brand, use AI and automation to multiply your impact, and determine when additional recruiters, agencies, tools, or programs are needed as the company grows.

What We're Looking For:

• A versatile, high-caliber recruiter. You have at least five years of experience and a track record of personally sourcing and closing exceptional business, scientific, and engineering talent in a high-bar, fast-moving environment.

• A builder and operator. You have created recruiting processes, interview systems, tooling, or employer-brand programs from an early stage. Experience as an early or founding recruiter is especially valuable.

• Excellent judgment and partnership skills. You recognize capability beyond credentials, learn unfamiliar domains quickly, and can challenge and calibrate hiring managers without adding unnecessary friction.

• High agency and an AI-native approach. You take ownership from diagnosis through execution, communicate clearly, and use AI, automation, and modern recruiting tools to improve your reach, speed, and effectiveness.

Why Join Us?

• Competitive salary and equity share in building the future of biomedical discovery

• Full medical, dental, and vision coverage, including free therapy sessions and eyewear stipend

• 401(k) to help you build long-term financial security (US only)

• Unlimited PTO to recharge when you need it (US only)

• Lunch and snacks when you're in the office

• Regular team offsites and company events

• A culture of excellence and speed - we move fast, think big, and support each other every step of the way

• Your work will directly impact our mission to 100X biomedical discoveries through AI