Sr. Technical Recruiter

AssemblyAI builds best-in-class Speech AI models powering voice applications, serving 600M+ inference calls monthly and processing 1M+ hours of audio daily. The company is remote-first, has raised $115M+ from investors including Accel and Insight Partners, and is among the most revenue-dense AI companies.

We are looking for a Senior Technical Recruiter to own hiring for our Research team and a portfolio of senior Engineering roles, including Researchers, Research Engineers, and ML Engineers. You will work directly with research and engineering leaders and be expected to understand the work well enough to find, assess, and close people others can’t.

• Own full-cycle recruiting for Research and senior Engineering roles, from intake through offer and close.
• Build deep, outbound-first pipelines: map talent at frontier labs, speech and audio teams, and academic groups; track publications, open-source contributors, and conference speakers.
• Partner with research and engineering leaders to define profiles, calibrate on bar, and design quality, efficient interview loops.
• Run thoughtful screens with technical candidates and give hiring managers sharp, evidence-based reads.
• Lead complex closes: competing offers from large labs, equity conversations, and international candidates, in partnership with the People team.
• Build long-term relationships with candidates who aren’t ready to move yet.
• Use data and AI tooling to work faster: smarter sourcing, cleaner Greenhouse pipelines, and clear reporting on funnel health.
• Help the team scale: interviewer training, structured kits, and a candidate experience that reflects how much we care about the work.

• 5+ years of technical recruiting, with a track record of hiring ML researchers, research engineers, or ML/infrastructure engineers at AI labs, AI-native startups, or top tech companies.
• A strong outbound sourcing practice and a network in the ML/AI research community.
• Enough technical fluency to talk credibly about model training, evaluation, and inference with researchers, and to tell a strong profile from a keyword match.
• Experience closing senior, sought-after candidates against competing offers, including equity-heavy packages.
• Comfort with Greenhouse, LinkedIn Recruiter, JuiceBox (or similar), and modern AI sourcing tools.
• Self-direction: you find the highest-impact work and do it without waiting to be asked.

Compensation: $170,000–$200,000. The total compensation package includes competitive equity grants and 100% employer-paid benefits.

Apply via the Greenhouse job posting. If selected for an interview, review AssemblyAI’s AI guidance resource. EU candidates should review the GDPR privacy notice before applying.