Talent Recruiting

Build AI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Medical, dental, and vision packages

Housing subsidy in SF

Relocation support to SF or Shenzhen

Daily meals in office

Unlimited compute budget (ROI-based)

Codex and Claude credits

Travel

Job summary

Build AI in San Francisco is seeking a Technical Recruiter to own full-cycle hiring for engineers, researchers, operators, and hardware specialists. You will source, screen, and close candidates while shaping pipelines, interview loops, and candidate experience across software, research, data, and hardware roles.

You will partner with hiring managers to set criteria, maintain pipeline hygiene, and push recruitment standards.

Qualifications

• 2+ years recruiting technical talent in a competitive market.
• Sourcing and placing software, research, data, or hardware-adjacent people.
• Ability to evaluate technical depth and fit without guessing.
• Work independently in ambiguity and build scalable systems.
• Aware of Ashby or similar ATS for tracking candidates.

Responsibilities

• Own requisitions end-to-end: source, screen, run structured interview loops, debriefs, and close with hiring managers.
• Source beyond LinkedIn: GitHub, arXiv, workshops, Shenzhen networks, conferences.
• Partner with managers to write JDs, define the bar, and maintain high interview signal.
• Keep pipeline hygiene, scorecards, and time-to-offer metrics.
• Track funnel metrics and fix slow loops; represent Build in recruiting conversations.

Skills

Sourcing

Interviewing

Tech recruiting

ATS usage

Stakeholder management

Tools

Ashby

LinkedIn Recruiter

Job description

About Build AI

Build AI is the data hyperscaler for Physical AI. We\'re vertically integrated across hardware, manufacturing, logistics, collection, and model training to scale the physical labor dataset orders of magnitude faster than anyone in the world.

Job Summary

We\'re seeking a Technical Recruiter to own full-cycle hiring as we scale the data hyperscaler for Physical AI. This is an IC seat, not Head of Talent / VP. You will source, screen, and close engineers, researchers, operators, and Shenzhen hardware people, and you will leave fingerprints on how we hire: pipelines, structured loops, and candidate experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Own requisitions end-to-end: source, screen, run structured interview loops, lead debriefs, and close with hiring managers and leadership


• Source in places most recruiters skip: GitHub, arXiv and workshop papers, factory and hardware networks in Shenzhen, conference speaker lists — not only LinkedIn


• Partner with hiring managers to write JDs, define the bar, and keep interview signal high across software, research, data, ops, and collection hardware


• Keep Ashby clean: pipeline hygiene, scorecards, time-to-offer, and a candidate experience that matches the company


• Track funnel metrics and fix the process when a loop is slow or a bar is fuzzy


• Represent Build: why someone should bet a career on in-the-wild physical labor data, not another lab license

You may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)

• 2+ years recruiting technical talent in a competitive market (startup or technology company)


• Track record sourcing and placing software, research, data, or hardware-adjacent people


• You can evaluate technical depth and fit without faking the conversation


• You operate independently in ambiguity and will build systems, not wait for a playbook


• Familiarity with an ATS (Ashby or similar) and sourcing platforms

Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)

• You\'ve hired in AI, robotics, hardware, or another niche where the best people are not on job boards


• Experience recruiting across the US and China, or comfort working with Shenzhen hiring managers


• A track record of closing candidates who had competing offers from labs or larger companies

Benefits

• Competitive pay


• Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage


• $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits


• Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office


• Relocation support for those moving to San Francisco (Financial District) or Shenzhen (Nanshan)


• Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more


• Daily lunch and dinner in our office


• Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification


• Unlimited Codex and Claude credits


• Travel

How we\'re different

Build believes in the Bitter Lesson. By taking a general approach of learning from humans, our addressable market is all physical labor.

We are a fully in-person team in San Francisco (Financial District) and Shenzhen (Nanshan), and greatly value engineering skills. We do not have boundaries between engineering and research, and we expect all of our technical staff to contribute to both and work across disciplines as needed.

Build AI is an equal opportunity employer. We review every application. If you do not meet every bullet, still apply. Questions: [e-mail]