Senior Technical Recruiter for AI/Infra — Equity Included

LiveKit; San Francisco (CA); On-site; CAD 211,000 - 281,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental & vision benefits

Flexible vacation policy

Competitive salary and equity package

Job summary

LiveKit is seeking a Senior Technical Recruiter to partner with engineering teams, owning end-to-end technical searches and shaping recruiting strategy. You will source deeply for infra, backend, SDK, and AI engineers, while ensuring an exceptional candidate experience and building repeatable pipelines for ongoing roles.

You will work with hiring managers to align role requirements with market realities, leveraging Ashby and Gem as needed.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting, mostly in-house.
• You've owned senior and staff-level engineering searches and closed them.
• You can hold a real conversation with an engineer about their work.
• You source proactively and know how to build and sustain a strong bench.
• You've recruited for infrastructure, developer tools, open source, or AI companies.
• You've built or rebuilt a recruiting process from scratch.

Responsibilities

• Own 8-10 engineering and technical searches end to end, from kickoff to signed offer.
• Partner with engineering hiring managers on what the role really needs, and push back when requirements don't match the market.
• Source hard: find infra, backend, SDK, and AI engineers who aren't looking, and talk to them.
• Understand candidate motivations and create a strategy to reach them.
• Build pipelines so new reqs don’t start from zero.
• Run an honest, authentic and clear process emphasizing candidate experience, even for those not hired.
• Help build systems for the Talent team, from sourcing playbooks to interview kits.

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

In-house recruiting

Technical recruiting

Talent partnerships

Education

CS degree or related certification

Tools

Ashby

Gem

Job description

LiveKit is seeking a Senior Technical Recruiter to partner with engineering teams, owning end-to-end technical searches and shaping recruiting strategy. You will source deeply for infra, backend, SDK, and AI engineers, while ensuring an exceptional candidate experience and building repeatable pipelines for ongoing roles.

You will work with hiring managers to align role requirements with market realities, leveraging Ashby and Gem as needed.