Technical Recruiter, Infrastructure & AI Systems

Bison; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision benefits

Unlimited PTO

Paid parental leave

Relocation support

Job summary

Thinking Machines in San Francisco is hiring a Technical Recruiter to lead full-cycle recruiting for our infrastructure, systems, and networking teams. You will partner with engineering leaders to define roles, design interview loops, and craft closing strategies in a competitive AI infrastructure landscape.

You will need deep technical conversation skills about distributed training, cluster networking, Kubernetes, and systems languages, and you will build scalable sourcing playbooks as the org

Qualifications

• 4+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, with a track record of hiring for infrastructure, platform, or systems engineering roles.
• Ability to hold a substantive technical conversation about infrastructure domains such as distributed systems, cluster or cloud networking, container orchestration, and systems languages.
• Experience partnering directly with hiring managers on intake, bar calibration, and interview loop design.
• Sound independent judgment on candidate quality, and the ability to manage multiple concurrent searches with minimal oversight.

Responsibilities

• Own full-cycle recruiting — sourcing, screening, interview coordination, and closing — for infrastructure, systems, and networking roles.
• Partner directly with hiring managers and technical leaders on role scoping and interview loop design
• Build and run proactive sourcing strategies and outbound campaigns to reach passive, highly specialized infrastructure talent
• Serve as a subject matter expert across distributed training, cluster networking, Kubernetes/container orchestration, and systems programming languages, with the ability to speak to the team's work in depth while assessing candidates
• Calibrate talent bar alongside engineering leaders and help interviewers give clear, well-supported feedback
• Manage a high-touch candidate experience and act as a trusted advisor to candidates through offer and close
• Track pipeline health and hiring metrics, and use that data to continuously improve the hiring process
• Help build the recruiting playbooks, tools, and processes that will scale as the infrastructure org grows

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

Infrastructure domain knowledge

Interview loop design

Independent judgment/multi-search

Tools

Greenhouse

Ashby

Job description

Thinking Machines in San Francisco is hiring a Technical Recruiter to lead full-cycle recruiting for our infrastructure, systems, and networking teams. You will partner with engineering leaders to define roles, design interview loops, and craft closing strategies in a competitive AI infrastructure landscape.

You will need deep technical conversation skills about distributed training, cluster networking, Kubernetes, and systems languages, and you will build scalable sourcing playbooks as the org