Senior AI/ML Talent Recruiter

AssemblyAI, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 170,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

AssemblyAI is hiring in the United States for a senior technical recruiting role focused on ML researchers and senior engineers. You will own full-cycle recruiting from intake to close, build outbound pipelines, and partner with leaders to define roles and run rigorous interview loops.

You’ll close top talent against strong offers, maintain relationships with passive candidates, and leverage AI tools to streamline sourcing and reporting. This is a high-impact, fast-moving role at a lean company.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical recruiting experience, with a track record of hiring ML researchers, research engineers, or ML/infrastructure engineers at AI labs, AI-native startups, or top tech companies.
• Strong outbound sourcing ability and a network in the ML/AI research community.
• Sufficient technical fluency to discuss model training, evaluation, and inference with researchers and distinguish a strong profile from a keyword match.
• Experience closing senior, high-demand candidates against competing offers, including equity-heavy packages.
• Familiarity with Greenhouse, LinkedIn Recruiter, JuiceBox (or similar) and modern AI sourcing tools.
• Self-directed: consistently finds high-impact work without being asked.

Responsibilities

• Own full-cycle recruiting for Research and senior Engineering roles, from intake through offer and close.
• Build deep, outbound-first pipelines: map talent at frontier labs, speech and audio teams, and academic groups; track publications, open-source contributors, and conference speakers.
• Partner with research and engineering leaders to define profiles, calibrate on bar, and design quality, efficient interview loops.
• Run thoughtful screens with technical candidates and give hiring managers sharp, evidence-based reads.
• Lead complex closes: competing offers from large labs, equity conversations, and international candidates, in partnership with the People team.
• Build long-term relationships with candidates who aren’t ready to move yet.
• Use data and AI tooling to work faster: smarter sourcing, cleaner Greenhouse pipelines, and clear reporting on funnel health.
• Help the team scale: interviewer training, structured kits, and a candidate experience that reflects how much we care about the work.

Skills

Outbound sourcing

Candidate screening

Interview coordination

Networking in ML/AI

Data-driven hiring

Tools

Greenhouse

LinkedIn Recruiter

JuiceBox

Job description

AssemblyAI is hiring in the United States for a senior technical recruiting role focused on ML researchers and senior engineers. You will own full-cycle recruiting from intake to close, build outbound pipelines, and partner with leaders to define roles and run rigorous interview loops.

You’ll close top talent against strong offers, maintain relationships with passive candidates, and leverage AI tools to streamline sourcing and reporting. This is a high-impact, fast-moving role at a lean company.