Senior Technical Recruiter for AI Infra & Cloud

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

Job summary

Nscale, a GPU cloud company focused on AI infrastructure, seeks a Senior Technical Recruiter to lead end-to-end hiring for AI platform teams. You will partner with engineering and product leaders to hire across cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, platform engineering, developer tooling, and open-source ecosystems.

This hands-on, high-impact role requires running critical searches, delivering market intelligence on compensation, and building strong candidate pipelines to power fast,

Qualifications

• 8+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, gained in-house and/or in a high-performing search environment.
• Experience hiring software engineers and technical leaders for an AI infrastructure company, hyperscaler, or open-source business.
• Strong understanding of technical talent markets across cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, Kubernetes, GPU/AI platforms, storage, networking, platform engineering, and developer tooling.
• 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 challenge senior technical leaders.
• Strong sourcing capability, including market mapping, talent research, targeted outreach, and building long-term candidate relationships.

Responsibilities

• Own full-cycle recruiting for technical roles, from intake through sourcing, assessment design, offer management, and closing.
• Partner with senior engineering, product, and infrastructure leaders to define talent needs and hiring plans.
• Proactively build high-yield talent pipelines with outbound sourcing in hard-to-reach communities.
• Provide market intelligence on compensation, competitor mapping, and time-to-fill expectations.
• Design and improve structured interview processes with clear competencies and calibrated scorecards.
• Develop creative sourcing strategies for highly technical, passive candidates in competitive markets.
• Deliver an exceptional candidate experience that is timely, transparent, and high-touch.
• Use recruiting data and feedback to influence hiring priorities and improve delivery over time.
• Collaborate with compensation and people teams on leveling, offers, and benchmarking.

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

In-house recruiting

Stakeholder management

Sourcing & outreach

Data-informed hiring

Tools

Kubernetes

vLLM

Ray

PyTorch

DeepSpeed

HuggingFace TGI

Job description

Nscale, a GPU cloud company focused on AI infrastructure, seeks a Senior Technical Recruiter to lead end-to-end hiring for AI platform teams. You will partner with engineering and product leaders to hire across cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, platform engineering, developer tooling, and open-source ecosystems.

This hands-on, high-impact role requires running critical searches, delivering market intelligence on compensation, and building strong candidate pipelines to power fast,