Senior Technical Recruiter

Nscale; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Flexible PTO

Parental leave

Retirement plan participation

Job summary

Nscale is seeking a Senior Technical Recruiter to lead end-to-end hiring for the teams building our AI infrastructure platform. You’ll partner closely with engineering and product leaders to hire exceptional talent across cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, platform engineering, developer tooling, and open-source ecosystems.

This is a hands-on, high-impact role. You will personally run critical searches, bring sharp market intelligence to hiring decisions, and help build the teams that

Qualifications

• 8+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience (in-house or high-performing search).
• Experience recruiting software engineers and technical leaders for AI infrastructure, hyperscaler, or open-source businesses.

Responsibilities

• Own full-cycle recruiting for technical roles from intake to closing.
• Partner with engineering, product, and infrastructure leaders to define talent needs and hiring plans.
• Proactively build high-yield talent pipelines with outbound sourcing.
• Provide market insights on compensation and time-to-fill expectations.
• Design structured interview processes with clear competencies and calibrated scorecards.
• Develop creative sourcing strategies for highly technical candidates in competitive markets.
• Deliver an exceptional candidate experience with transparency and high-touch engagement.
• Leverage data to influence hiring priorities and improve delivery over time.

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

Technical recruiting

Stakeholder management

Sourcing & outreach

Market benchmarking

Data-driven hiring

Tools

Kubernetes

Open-source ecosystems

Job description

Nscale is the GPU cloud engineered for AI. We provide cost-effective, high-performance infrastructure for AI start-ups and large enterprise customers. Nscale enables AI-focused companies to achieve superior results by reducing the complexity of AI development. Our GPU cloud bolsters technical capabilities and directly supports strategic business outcomes, including cost management, rapid innovation, and environmental responsibility.

We thrive on a culture of relentless innovation, ownership, and accountability, where every team member takes pride in their work and drives it with excellence and urgency. As an Nscaler, you’ll build trust through openness and transparency, where everyone is inspired to do their best work. If you join our team, you’ll be contributing to building the technology that powers the future.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Senior Technical Recruiter to lead end-to-end hiring for the teams building Nscale’s AI infrastructure platform. You’ll partner closely with engineering and product leaders to hire exceptional talent across cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, platform engineering, developer tooling, and open-source ecosystems.

This is a hands-on, high-impact role. You will personally run critical searches, bring sharp market intelligence to hiring decisions, and help build the teams that make Nscale’s GPU cloud faster, more reliable, and easier for customers to use.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Own full-cycle recruiting for technical roles, from intake and calibration through sourcing, assessment design, offer management, and closing.
• Partner with senior engineering, product, and infrastructure leaders to define talent needs, hiring plans, and compelling candidate value propositions.
• Proactively build and engage high-yield talent pipelines, focusing heavily on outbound sourcing within hard-to-reach engineering communities.
• Bring practical market insight on talent availability, compensation, competitor mapping, and realistic time-to-fill expectations.
• Design and continuously improve structured interview processes, including clear competencies, calibrated scorecards, and evidence-based debriefs.
• Develop creative sourcing strategies for highly technical, passive candidates in competitive markets.
• Deliver an exceptional candidate experience that is timely, transparent, informed, and appropriately high-touch.
• Use recruiting data and market feedback to influence hiring priorities and improve delivery over time.

About You

• 8+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, gained in-house and/or in a high-performing search environment.
• Demonstrated experience hiring software engineers and technical leaders for a Neocloud, hyperscaler, AI infrastructure company, cloud platform, or open-source software business.
• Strong understanding of technical talent markets across areas such as cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, Kubernetes, GPU/AI platforms, storage, networking, platform engineering, developer tools, or developer experience.
• Strong functional knowledge of the modern open-source AI infrastructure ecosystem, such as vLLM, Ray, PyTorch, DeepSpeed, Hugging Face TGI, or similar.
• Proven ability to recruit across a range of seniorities, including senior individual contributors and technical leadership roles.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to influence and constructively challenge senior technical leaders.
• Strong sourcing capability, including market mapping, talent research, targeted outreach, and building long-term candidate relationships.
• A high bar for quality, process, and candidate experience, with comfort using structured and data-informed hiring practices.
• Ability to operate with pace, sound judgement, and ownership in a high-growth environment.

Nice to Have

• Experience recruiting for AI infrastructure, GPU cloud, data centre software, developer platforms, or open-source communities.
• Familiarity with hiring technical talent across the USA and Europe, including location, compensation, and compliance complexity.
• Experience supporting rapid technical team growth while maintaining a high hiring bar.
• Experience partnering with compensation and people teams on levelling, offers, and market benchmarking.

Why This Role Matters

Nscale’s ability to deliver world-class AI infrastructure depends on the technical teams we build. This role will directly shape the engineering and platform talent behind our cloud, helping us scale with both speed and quality as we build the technology that powers the future.

We strongly encourage applications from people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds. If there’s anything we can do to accommodate your specific situation, please let us know.

The responsibilities outlined in this job description are not exhaustive and are intended to provide a general overview of the position. The employee may be required to perform additional duties, tasks, and responsibilities as assigned by management, consistent with the skills and qualifications required for the role.

Salary Range

$160,000 - $210,000 USD

The range below reflects the base salary for the position. Actual compensation may vary based on job-related factors such as skill set, experience, education, and location. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for bonus, equity, and/or commission programs. Nscale may offer a competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, flexible paid time off, parental leave, and retirement plan participation.

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