Technical Recruiter

Andromeda; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Healthcare, dental, and vision

401(k)

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Andromeda is seeking a hands-on technical recruiter to help build the team behind our next growth phase. You’ll own high-priority searches across engineering and AI infrastructure, collaborating with hiring managers from role definition through close.

This role requires creative sourcing, deep market mapping, and the ability to tell a credible Andromeda story to top candidates who may have other offers. Early contribution now can shape the recruiting function as we scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of recruiting experience competing for engineering talent.
• Experience in a fast-growing startup with changing priorities.
• Creative sourcing: map markets, outreach that earns responses, and experimentation.
• Strong judgement; partner with hiring managers; drive urgent decisions.
• Proven storytelling and closing ability in competitive hiring.

Responsibilities

• Run full-cycle recruiting for a focused set of high-priority roles from intake through close.
• Build targeted pipelines via original research, unconventional channels, referrals.
• Partner with hiring managers; run pipeline reviews and make tough calls together.
• Turn Andromeda’s work into a clear story; tailor pitch and lead the close.
• Maintain accurate recruiting data; iterate with AI to power a world-class process.

Tools

Ashby

Job description

Full-Time

Location: North America Remote / San Francisco, CA

About Andromeda

Andromeda Cluster is a $1.5B company founded by Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross to give early-stage startups access to the kind of scaled AI infrastructure once reserved for hyperscalers.

We began with a single managed cluster, and it filled almost immediately. Since then, we’ve grown into a global network serving leading AI labs, data centers, and cloud providers. Our platform routes training and inference jobs across global compute supply, giving customers access to capacity when and where they need it.

Our long-term vision is to build the liquidity layer for global AI compute. Reaching it requires an exceptional team across AI infrastructure, engineering, markets, and operations—and we are building that team quickly.

Andromeda gives AI companies access to the kind of scaled compute once reserved for hyperscalers. Our platform connects 100+ AI customers to 50+ global providers, with billions of GPU-hours supported, and those numbers are all rapidly growing. We combine enterprise-grade reliability with the speed and economics of an open market, serving teams running everything from large-scale training to production inference.

Nat Friedman (former CEO of GitHub) and Daniel Gross (former head of AI at Apple, YC partner) started Andromeda in 2023 with a single GPU cluster. It filled almost immediately. Three years later, we’re a $1.5B company, profitable since day one, with a Series A from Paradigm to scale the platform globally. The global flow of compute is already a multi-trillion dollar market, and our team is building the infrastructure enables it to continue to scale.

The problem is deceptively hard. Not all compute is equal: interconnect, networking, OEM, firmware, and cluster age all vary across providers, and the differences matter at scale. Our platform benchmarks and validates capacity, takes positions, structures contracts, and operates clusters globally, delivering a consistent product regardless of where it runs. No one else has built this layer, and the AI industry can’t scale without it.

The Role

We are looking for a hands‑on technical recruiter to help build the team behind Andromeda’s next stage of growth. You’ll own a focused portfolio of our highest-priority searches, primarily across engineering and AI infrastructure, and work directly with hiring managers from role definition through close.

The people we need are rarely waiting for a recruiter to contact them, and nearly all of them have strong alternatives. Success requires more than working through a familiar list of companies or sending polished outreach at scale. You’ll need to find talent in places others overlook, understand what motivates each person, tell a compelling and credible story about Andromeda, and close candidates who could otherwise choose to work at leading labs and neoclouds.

This is not a coordination role or a strategy‑only leadership position. You’ll also raise the quality of how we hire: sharper prioritization, stronger calibration, faster decisions, and reliable recruiting data.

The role begins as an individual contributor. As Andromeda and the hiring plan grow, there will be room to shape the recruiting function and take on broader ownership.

What You’ll Own

• Critical technical searches: Run full-cycle recruiting for a focused set of high-priority roles, from intake and talent mapping through assessment, references, offer, and close.
• Creative sourcing: Build targeted pipelines through original research, unconventional channels, direct outreach, referrals, and long-term relationship development. Keep finding new ways to reach exceptional people rather than relying on inbound applicants, agencies, or the same obvious talent pools.
• Hiring manager partnership: Run disciplined pipeline reviews, build high-trust relationships with hiring managers, and make tough judgment calls together.
• Storytelling and closing: Turn Andromeda’s technical work and ambition into a clear, compelling story. Tailor that story to what matters to each candidate, build conviction throughout the process, and lead the close when they are choosing among strong alternatives.
• Recruiting operations: Keep Ashby accurate and useful, use data to identify bottlenecks and constantly iterate, and experiment with AI to build tools that can power a world‑class recruiting machine.

What We’re Looking For

• A record of exceptional technical hiring: You have 5+ years of recruiting experience and have competed for engineering talent and won against the most established and desirable technology companies on earth.
• Early‑stage range: You have succeeded in a fast‑growing startup or similarly demanding environment where priorities change, resources are limited, and the recruiter must do the work directly.
• Creative sourcing ability: You can map a market, uncover strong candidates outside the obvious channels, write outreach that earns responses, and keep experimenting when the standard playbook stops working.
• Strong judgment and influence: Hiring managers see you as a partner. You can challenge a brief, improve an interview process, create urgency without relying on formal authority, and maintain the operating discipline needed to keep several important searches moving.
• Exceptional storytelling and closing ability: You learn unfamiliar technical domains quickly, explain why the work matters without overselling it, adapt the pitch to the person in front of you, and have repeatedly closed sought‑after candidates in competitive situations.

This Role May Not Be a Fit If

• You are looking primarily to manage a recruiting team or advise from a distance; this role is hands‑on.
• Your recruiting model depends heavily on inbound volume or outside agencies.
• You prefer to treat every open role as equally urgent rather than making explicit tradeoffs around the company’s most important hires.

Strong Candidates May Have

• Built or helped build the recruiting function at an early‑stage technology company.
• Recruited for AI infrastructure, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, developer tools, or another deeply technical field.
• Closed senior and staff-level engineers against larger, better‑known companies.

Why You’ll Love It Here

• Work that matters: The people you hire will build the infrastructure that frontier AI companies depend on.
• Real ownership: You’ll work directly with company leaders and influence both who joins Andromeda and how we make hiring decisions.
• A company scaling quickly: You’ll join at a moment when recruiting quality and speed will materially shape the business.
• Competitive compensation and meaningful equity: Share in the value you help create.
• Comprehensive benefits: Healthcare, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents, a 401(k), and unlimited PTO.

Andromeda Cluster is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.