Technical Recruiter: Build Engineering Talent for AI Startup

additiveai; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

401(k) with match

Commuter benefits

Lunch/dinner onsite

Equinox membership

Job summary

Additive is seeking a Sr. Recruiter to help scale our engineering team and shape how we hire as we grow within Thomson Reuters. You will own searches from outreach to offers, partnering with hiring managers and building pipelines across the company.

This is an in-person, five-days-a-week role based in downtown San Francisco. We value speed, quality, and candidate experience, and you will help create processes, scorecards, and playbooks as Additive evolves.

Qualifications

• 2 to 4+ years of recruiting experience, either in-house or agency, with experience independently owning searches from sourcing through close.
• Experience recruiting technical talent, particularly software engineers.
• Strong sourcing instincts. You do not rely on inbound applicants to fill roles.
• Excellent judgment and communication with both candidates and hiring managers.
• Comfortable working with incomplete information, changing priorities, and processes that are still being built.
• High ownership. If a search is not working, you dig in, figure out why, and change the approach.
• We work fully in person, five days per week, in downtown San Francisco. Additive can cover relocation costs for candidates moving to the San Francisco area.

Responsibilities

• Own searches from start to finish. Source, screen, coordinate interviews, manage candidates, run offers, and close.
• Build engineering pipelines from scratch. You should be comfortable going outbound, finding hard-to-reach candidates, writing strong outreach, and creating momentum where there is no existing pipeline.
• Become a real partner to hiring managers. Push for clarity on what great looks like, calibrate quickly, surface tradeoffs, and keep searches moving.
• Close great candidates. Understand what motivates someone, build conviction throughout the process, navigate competing offers, and help us land people we are excited about.
• Make the candidate experience excellent. Candidates should leave every interaction with a clear sense of who we are, what we are building, and why the opportunity is worth considering.
• Help build the recruiting function. Improve our processes, tooling, interview practices, scorecards, and operating rhythms as the company grows.
• Know your pipeline. Track where searches stand, identify problems early, and communicate clearly about progress, risks, and what needs to change.
• Tell the Additive story well. We are a small, ambitious team building inside Thomson Reuters, and you should be able to explain why that combination is unusual and compelling.

Skills

Recruiting

Technical recruiting

Sourcing

Communication

Stakeholder management

Tools

Ashby

Greenhouse

Lever

Job description

Additive is seeking a Sr. Recruiter to help scale our engineering team and shape how we hire as we grow within Thomson Reuters. You will own searches from outreach to offers, partnering with hiring managers and building pipelines across the company.

This is an in-person, five-days-a-week role based in downtown San Francisco. We value speed, quality, and candidate experience, and you will help create processes, scorecards, and playbooks as Additive evolves.