Senior Technical Recruiter, AI/ML Research

Together AI; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 165,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Startup equity

Health insurance

Flexible remote work

Job summary

Together AI is building the AI Native Cloud—an end-to-end platform for generative AI lifecycle. We are seeking a Senior Technical Recruiter to partner closely with AI Research and Engineering leadership to scale world-class teams across kernels, inference optimization, and model shaping.

You will lead full-cycle recruiting for researchers, research engineers, applied scientists, and ML systems engineers, while refining interview processes and leveraging market intelligence to attract top AI

Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical recruiting experience at high-growth technology companies.
• Experience recruiting AI researchers and research engineers from industry and academia.
• Ability to partner with senior technical leaders and influence hiring decisions through data and market expertise.
• Experience engaging with research communities, conferences, and open-source projects.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute hiring strategies with executives, research leadership, and hiring managers.
• Lead full-cycle recruiting for specialized AI talent, including researchers, research engineers, applied scientists, and ML systems engineers.
• Build and nurture relationships with top AI talent across academia, open-source communities, research labs, and industry networks.
• Drive exceptional candidate experiences from initial engagement through offer close, with a focus on long-term talent cultivation.
• Provide market intelligence on AI talent trends, compensation, and competitive hiring landscapes to inform strategy.

Skills

Technical recruiting

AI/ML recruiting

Stakeholder mgmt

Academic liaison

Job description

Senior Technical Recruiter, AI/ML Research

About the Role

Together AI is building the AI Native Cloud — an end-to-end platform for generative AI lifecycle, integrating fast, reliable inference, and model-shaping services with cutting-edge AI cloud infrastructure. We are looking for a seasoned Senior Technical Recruiter to partner closely with AI Research and Engineering leadership to scale world-class research teams across kernels, inference optimization, applied AI and model shaping.

This role is ideal for someone who understands the unique dynamics of recruiting top-tier AI researchers and research engineers in a highly competitive market and can operate as a strategic talent partner to technical leadership.

Responsibilities

Partner with executives, research leadership, and hiring managers to define and execute hiring strategies

Lead full-cycle recruiting for specialized AI talent, including researchers, research engineers, applied scientists, and ML systems engineers

Build and nurture relationships with top AI talent across academia, open-source communities, research labs, and industry networks

Drive exceptional candidate experiences from initial engagement through offer close, with a strong focus on relationship building and long-term talent cultivation

Provide market intelligence on AI talent trends, compensation, competitive hiring landscapes, and emerging research organizations to influence hiring strategy and organizational planning

Collaborate cross-functionally with sourcing, coordination, people operations, and leadership teams to continuously improve recruiting processes and operational excellence

Design and refine interview processes tailored for research hiring, including technical evaluations, publication reviews, and research presentation loops

Requirements

• 5+ years of technical recruiting experience at high-growth technology companies, with a proven track record hiring exceptional AI researchers, research engineers, applied scientists, or ML infrastructure talent at leading AI labs, hyper-scale startups, or frontier technology companies

Experience recruiting from both industry and academic pipelines, including familiarity with publications, conferences, open-source contributions, and research communities

Ability to build trusted partnerships with senior technical leaders and influence hiring decisions through data and market expertise

• Resourceful, adaptable, and creative in solving recruiting challenges, with comfort operating in fast-paced, ambiguous, high-growth environments with rapidly evolving priorities and hiring needs

Demonstrated ability to design recruiting processes and talent strategies from the ground up for emerging technical organizations

Strong execution mindset with the ability to navigate complex searches and close highly competitive candidates in constrained talent markets

About Together AI

Together AI, the AI Native Cloud, is purpose-built for AI engineers. AI application developers get high-performance inference that scales reliably, fine-tuning and reinforcement learning for creating frontier-level specialized models, and pre-training at massive scale for fully custom intelligence, all around a marketplace of leading open models that teams can run, adapt, and own. Trusted by Cursor, Decagon, ElevenLabs, Salesforce, and Zoom, Together serves 400+ trillion tokens a month.

Compensation

We offer competitive compensation, startup equity, health insurance, and other benefits, as well as flexibility in terms of remote work. The US base salary range for this full-time position is: $165,000 - $210,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by location, level and role. Individual compensation will be determined by experience, skills, and job-related knowledge.

Together AI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more.

As set forth in Together AI’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy,we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.