Sourcer

Openkrill; United States; Remote; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Surge is seeking a talented technical sourcer to identify exceptional engineers and researchers worldwide. You will build pipelines, map markets, and run initial conversations alongside recruiters and hiring managers.

You'll search across engineering, research, product, and partnerships, craft personalised outreach, and help hiring teams understand market realities. Experience in competitive tech hiring is a plus.

Qualifications

• Experience sourcing for engineers or researchers in competitive markets.
• Ability to craft personalized outreach and research signals in talent pools.
• Proven track record of building pipelines and enabling successful conversations.

Responsibilities

• Build pipelines for hardest searches across engineering, research, product, and partnerships.
• Map markets to identify teams and communities producing top talent.
• Write outreach messages that are specific, researched, and non-templated.
• Run initial conversations and hand candidates to recruiters when warm.
• Flag market-mitsmatches to hiring managers and explain why.

Skills

Sourcing

Recruiting

Cold outreach

Networking

Tools

LinkedIn Recruiter

X-Ray searches

Job description

About Us

Our mission is to raise AGI with the richness of human intelligence — curious, witty, imaginative, and full of unexpected brilliance.Surge was founded by engineers and researchers who dreamed of building the next generation of AI. Our platform powers the most capable models in the world, in partnership with companies like Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and Meta. We've run a profitable business from day one without raising venture funding.

The Role

Great sourcing is detective work. You'll figure out who's doing exceptional work, where to find them, and what would make them want to talk to us.You'll source across engineering, research, product, and partnerships, working side by side with our recruiters and hiring managers. The bar is extremely high. A good résumé isn't enough, and neither is a keyword match. You need to know what makes someone exceptional, and why.

What You\'ll Do

• - Build pipelines for our hardest searches, technical and non-technical.


• - Map the market. Learn which teams, labs, and communities produce the best people, and share what you\'re seeing.


• - Write outreach people actually read: specific, researched, never templated.


• - Run first conversations and hand recruiters candidates who are warm and ready.


• - Tell hiring managers when a spec doesn\'t match the market, and show them why.


• - Find new channels when the obvious ones run dry.

What We\'re Looking For

• - You\'ve found great people in competitive markets. Engineering or research sourcing is a big plus.


• - You can find people LinkedIn can\'t.


• - You write well. Candidates notice.


• - You don\'t need a playbook, and you move fast. Great candidates move fast, and so do we.