Recruiter

Surge AI; United States; Remote; USD 85,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Surge AI is hiring a Recruiter to own full-cycle hiring across engineering, research, product and partnerships. You’ll source, screen, schedule and close top candidates with autonomy and urgency.

You’ll work directly with hiring managers to shape roles to market reality, move quickly when strong candidates appear, and fix bottlenecks in the process. This role offers a lot of freedom and a high bar for the work.

Qualifications

• Strong track record closing candidates in competitive markets.
• Technical recruiting experience is a big plus.
• Ability to work with little structure or direction.
• Excellent writing skills that candidates notice.
• Ability to run several searches concurrently with urgency.

Responsibilities

• Full-cycle searches, technical and non-technical: sourcing, screens, scheduling, closing.
• Own your searches end to end with autonomy and urgency.
• Source creatively to find candidates who aren’t applying, and get their attention.
• Work directly with hiring managers to shape roles to market reality and timelines.
• Improve processes to remove bottlenecks and speed hires.

Skills

Candidate closing

Technical recruiting

Autonomy

Urgency

Job description

About Us

Our mission is to raise AGI with the richness of human intelligence — curious, witty, imaginative, and full of unexpected brilliance.

Surge was founded by engineers and researchers who dreamed of building the next generation of AI. Our platform powers the most capable models in the world, in partnership with companies like Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and Meta. We've run a profitable business from day one without raising venture funding.

The Role

We're hiring recruiters. You’ll flex across the company’s hiring needs, moving between searches across engineering, research, product, and partnerships. We’re hiring for extremely high bars across tech and non-tech. You should be able to identify the best people in the market, understand what makes them exceptional and make judgment calls without relying on a checklist. We don't have coordinators or approval layers, so scheduling, follow-ups, offer details, all of that is you.

That's the trade here: a lot of freedom in how you work, and a high bar for the work itself.

What You’ll Do

• Full-cycle searches, technical and non-technical: sourcing, screens, scheduling, closing.
• Own your searches end to end. Run your desk from intake to close with autonomy and urgency.
• Source creatively and relentlessly. The best candidates often aren’t applying. You’ll figure out where they are, how to find them, and how to get their attention.
• Work directly with hiring managers. Shape the role with them, and tell them when the spec doesn't match the market.
• Fix things in our process that slow you down.

What We’re Looking For

• You’ve closed strong candidates in competitive markets. Technical recruiting experience is a big plus.
• You’re fine with little structure or direction.
• You write well. Candidates notice.
• You can run several searches at once and move with urgency all the time. Great candidates move fast, and so do we.