Talent Partner, Engineering & Research

DatologyAI; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) plan with company match

Unlimited PTO

Parental leave and WFH flexibility

Wellness stipend

Learning & development stipend

Daily lunches and snacks

Job summary

DatologyAI is seeking a Senior Technical Talent Partner in San Mateo to own critical research and engineering searches from definition to close. You will collaborate closely with founders and technical leaders, shaping who we hire and how we hire them, reporting to Head of People.

You’ll lead full-cycle recruiting for senior technical roles, run proactive sourcing, and design interview loops that predict success.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical recruiting, with startup or high-growth experience.
• Proven track record of hiring strong technical talent.
• Ability to source passive candidates and reach beyond the on-market.
• Technical fluency to discuss with engineers and researchers.
• Experience closing complex offers including equity.
• Comfort with ambiguity and bias for building, measuring, and improving.

Responsibilities

• Own full-cycle recruiting for senior and specialized technical roles across research, ML engineering, and infrastructure.
• Run proactive sourcing to find and engage passive talent, including researchers from top labs, PhD programs, and high-growth AI companies.
• Partner with hiring managers to define roles, calibrate on the bar, and design interview loops that predict success.
• Lead offer strategy and close candidates, including equity conversations and competing offers.
• Deliver a high-touch candidate experience that reflects how we treat people.
• Use data to track pipeline health, spot bottlenecks, and keep leaders informed.
• Build scalable processes, tools, and playbooks as the team grows.
• Mentor recruiting teammates and raise the bar for how we hire.

Skills

Technical recruiting

Sourcing

Stakeholder management

Technical fluency

Job description

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Talent Partner, Engineering & Research

Location

San Mateo HQ

Employment Type

Full-time

Department

G&A

About the Company

Models are what they eat. But a large portion of training compute is wasted training on data that are already learned, irrelevant, or even harmful, leading to worse models that cost more to train and deploy.

At DatologyAI, we’ve built a state of the art data curation suite to automatically curate and optimize petabytes of data to create the best possible training data for your models. Training on curated data can dramatically reduce training time and cost (7-40x faster training depending on the use case), dramatically increase model performance as if you had trained on >10x more raw data without increasing the cost of training, and allow smaller models with fewer than half the parameters to outperform larger models despite using far less compute at inference time, substantially reducing the cost of deployment. For more details, check out our recent research on synthetic data scaling ( BeyondWeb ) and pretraining with domain-specific data ( The Finetuner’s Fallacy ).

We raised a total of $57.5M in two rounds, a Seed and Series A. Our investors include Felicis Ventures, Radical Ventures, Amplify Partners, Microsoft, Amazon, and AI visionaries like Geoff Hinton, Yann LeCun, Jeff Dean, and many others who deeply understand the importance and difficulty of identifying and optimizing the best possible training data for models. Our team has pioneered this frontier research area and has the deep expertise on both data research and data engineering necessary to solve this incredibly challenging problem and make data curation easy for anyone who wants to train their own model on their own data.

This role is based in San Mateo, CA. We are in office 4 days a week.

About the Role

Every hire changes the trajectory of the company, and the people we need are some of the most sought after in AI.

We're looking for a Senior Technical Talent Partner who is a builder at heart. You'll own our most critical research and engineering searches end to end, from role definition and talent mapping through assessment and close. You'll work side by side with our founders and technical leaders as a true thought partner, shaping who we hire and how we hire them. You'll report to our Head of People.

What you'll do

• Own full-cycle recruiting for senior and specialized technical roles across research, ML engineering, and infrastructure

• Run proactive sourcing to find and engage passive talent, including researchers from top labs, PhD programs, and high-growth AI companies

• Partner with hiring managers to define roles, calibrate on the bar, and design interview loops that predict success

• Lead offer strategy and close candidates, including equity conversations and competing offers

• Deliver a high-touch candidate experience that reflects how we treat people

• Use data to track pipeline health, spot bottlenecks, and keep leaders informed

• Build scalable processes, tools, and playbooks as the team grows

• Mentor recruiting teammates and raise the bar for how we hire

Who You Are

• 5+ years of technical recruiting, with meaningful time at a startup or high-growth tech company

• A proven track record of hiring strong technical talent

• Strong sourcing instincts and the creativity to reach people who are not on the market

• Enough technical fluency to hold credible conversations with engineers and researchers

• Confidence advising hiring managers and pushing back when it serves the outcome

• Experience closing complex offers, including equity and competitive situations

• Comfort with ambiguity and a bias for building, measuring, and improving

Compensation

At DatologyAI, we are dedicated to rewarding talent with competitive salary and meaningful equity. The salary for this position ranges from $140,000 to $180,000.

• Starting pay is based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, and interview performance.

Benefits

• 100% covered health benefits (medical, vision, and dental).

• 401(k) plan with a generous 4% company match.

• Unlimited PTO policy

• Paid Parental Leave of 12 weeks, plus 6 months of WFH flexibility.

• Annual $2,000 wellness stipend.

• Annual $1,000 learning and development stipend.

• Daily lunches and snacks are provided in our office!

• Relocation assistance for employees moving to the Bay Area.