Senior Technical Sourcer: AI/ML & Security Talent

Plaid Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits package

Job summary

Plaid Inc. is seeking a Senior Technical Sourcer to build the pipelines behind Plaid's most difficult technical searches across software engineering, infrastructure, data science, AI/ML, and security.

You will own top-of-funnel strategy, map the market, and craft outreach that earns replies from passive, high-skill candidates. You will manage high-volume searches with precision, convert research into actionable intelligence, and partner with recruiters and hiring managers to shape role scope and

Qualifications

• 6+ years of technical sourcing/recruiting experience, including in-house sourcing at a high-growth technology company.
• Mastery of sourcing research technique and tooling: boolean and x-ray search, LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub and technical communities, publications and conference sources, and CRM or ATS sourcing workflows.
• Demonstrated success in high-volume, high-urgency environments, carrying multiple technical searches at once without dropping the details.
• Genuine fluency in technical skill sets. You can read a job spec, a GitHub profile, or a research paper and make a defensible call on relevance.
• Proven track record sourcing for at least one hard-to-fill domain such as AI/ML, data science, data infrastructure, distributed systems, or security engineering.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills. Your outreach is short, specific, and human, and senior engineers reply to it.
• Data discipline. You use funnel metrics to decide where to spend effort, and you can explain your pipeline with numbers rather than anecdotes.
• Meticulous attention to detail and personal ownership of your data hygiene.

Responsibilities

• Own top-of-funnel strategy and execution for technical reqs across engineering, infrastructure, data, AI/ML, and security.
• Run deep talent research: market maps, org maps, competitor teardowns, conference/publication mining, open-source research, and advanced boolean/x-ray searches.
• Find niche and emerging technical talent in AI/ML, data infrastructure, distributed systems, and security engineering.
• Write outreach that gets answered with personalized messaging based on actual builds.
• Operate at volume with disciplined follow-up cadences and clean ATS data.
• Turn research into intelligence: market maps, talent density views, and competitive hiring insights for recruiters and hiring managers.
• Build diverse pipelines by design through broad research and inclusive outreach.
• Partner with recruiters and hiring managers to calibrate and improve role writtens to be findable.
• Track funnel metrics: response rate, screen pass rate, and stage conversion.
• Represent Plaid authentically as the first impression to candidates.

Skills

Technical sourcing

Boolean and X-ray search

LinkedIn Recruiter

GitHub / technical communities

CRM/ATS workflows

High-volume recruiting

Data discipline

Attention to detail

Candidate empathy

Communication skills

Tools

LinkedIn Recruiter

GitHub

CRM/ATS

Job description

Plaid Inc. is seeking a Senior Technical Sourcer to build the pipelines behind Plaid's most difficult technical searches across software engineering, infrastructure, data science, AI/ML, and security.

You will own top-of-funnel strategy, map the market, and craft outreach that earns replies from passive, high-skill candidates. You will manage high-volume searches with precision, convert research into actionable intelligence, and partner with recruiters and hiring managers to shape role scope and