Technical Recruiter

Braintrust Data, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Daily lunch, snacks, and beverages

Flexible time off

Competitive salary and equity

Wifi & cellphone stipend

Job summary

Braintrust is seeking a Technical Recruiter who thrives in early-stage ambiguity and helps shape how Braintrust grows. You will be a core partner to engineering and leadership, with real ownership over how we find, evaluate, and close exceptional technical talent.

This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys building systems while staying close to the work. If you are energized by strong technical teams, thoughtful process, and the chance to meaningfully influence a company's trajectory, this

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, ideally in tech or high-growth environments.
• Build strong relationships with hiring partners and act as a trusted advisor.
• Help candidates understand equity, ownership and long-term growth in early-stage teams.
• Builder mindset; started something before, whether a process, initiative, or team practice.
• Take feedback well, act quickly, and operate with high confidence and low ego.
• Communicate clearly and warmly in writing and on calls; explain complex roles simply.
• Comfortable with shifting priorities, ambiguity, and balancing multiple roles without sacrificing quality.

Responsibilities

• Own full-cycle recruiting for engineering roles, from sourcing to offer, focusing on quality and candidate experience.
• Partner with engineering leaders to define roles, calibrate talent, and make great hiring decisions.
• Clearly communicate Braintrust's mission and opportunities to candidates to guide them through the process.
• Identify opportunities to improve recruiting strategy, interview process, employer brand, and candidate experience as we scale.
• Build and maintain a healthy pipeline of top-tier technical talent, including passive candidates across multiple disciplines.
• Track recruiting metrics and use data to understand what works and where to experiment.
• Provide actionable feedback to leadership on market dynamics and candidate sentiment.
• Identify opportunities to streamline workflows and improve recruiting operations without sacrificing quality.

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

Relationship building

Equity understanding

Process improvement

Feedback-driven

Clear communication

Ambiguity handling

Job description

Careers

Technical Recruiter

San Francisco

About the company

Braintrust is the agent observability platform. By actively applying intelligence to agent traces and automatically surfacing the most critical patterns, Braintrust gives teams the visibility to understand how agents behave in production and the tools to improve them. Teams at Notion, Stripe, Box, OpenAI, and Cloudflare use Braintrust to trace their agents, find the issues in their observability data, and run evals that tell them how to improve.

About the role

We are looking for a Technical Recruiter who thrives in early-stage ambiguity and is excited to help shape how Braintrust grows. We are a product and engineering company first, and the people we hire internally set the bar for everything we do.

In this role, you will be a core partner to engineering and leadership, with real ownership over how we find, evaluate, and close exceptional technical talent. This is a hands‑on role for someone who enjoys building systems while staying close to the work. If you are energized by strong technical teams, thoughtful process, and the chance to meaningfully influence a company's trajectory, this role is for you.

This is an in-office position located in San Francisco.

What you'll do

• Own full-cycle recruiting for engineering roles, from sourcing through offer acceptance, with a strong focus on quality and candidate experience.
• Partner closely with engineering leaders to define roles, calibrate talent, and make great hiring decisions.
• Clearly and authentically communicate what Braintrust is building, why it matters, and why now, serving as a trusted guide for candidates throughout the process.
• Identify and execute opportunities to improve our recruiting strategy, interview process, employer brand, and candidate experience as we scale.
• Build and maintain a healthy pipeline of top-tier technical talent, including passive candidates across multiple disciplines.
• Track recruiting metrics thoughtfully and use data to understand what is working, what is not, and where we should experiment.
• Provide tight, actionable feedback to leadership on market dynamics, candidate sentiment, and how our story is landing.
• Identify opportunities to streamline workflows and improve recruiting operations without sacrificing quality.

Ideal candidate credentials

• 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, ideally including time at a high-growth or early-stage company.
• You build strong relationships with hiring partners and operate as a trusted advisor who is comfortable pushing for the best outcome.
• You have successfully helped candidates understand and get excited about early-stage product and engineering teams, including how to think about equity, ownership, and long-term growth.
• You are a builder at heart. You have started something before, whether a process, initiative, team practice, or side project, and you enjoy making things better than you found them.
• You take feedback well, act on it quickly, and operate with high confidence and low ego.
• You communicate clearly and warmly in writing, on calls, and when explaining complex technical opportunities simply and honestly.
• You are comfortable with shifting priorities, ambiguity, and balancing multiple roles without losing sight of quality.

Benefits include

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Daily lunch, snacks, and beverages
• Flexible time off
• Competitive salary and equity
• Wifi & cellphone stipend

Equal opportunity

Braintrust is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.