About the role
Technical recruiting finds the people who will build Frontier AI, Autonomy & Sensing, Clexerl Go, Software Consulting and the parent company's own platforms. This role focuses on research and engineering hiring, where candidates are often published, selective and well informed. You will run searches, build relationships with candidates and manage an honest, fast process from the first call to the offer.
Our bench moves people between divisions, so a strong hire in one venture often becomes valuable in another. We look for depth in areas such as large-scale training, perception, distributed systems and applied cryptography. Each search connects to the company's values: we want people who would rather build the thing than describe it, and who can say the true thing in a hard interview.
We keep a shared pipeline, write down our reasons for every decision, and tell candidates where they stand within a week.
What you’ll do
- Source candidates for research and engineering roles through targeted searches, publications, open source work and referrals.
- Write outreach that is specific to each candidate's work, and follow up without pressure when the timing is wrong for them.
- Run first-round screens that cover motivation, technical depth and the practical details that matter to a candidate.
- Coordinate interview loops with hiring managers, keeping feedback timely and decisions recorded with their reasons.
- Manage offers and negotiations within agreed bands, explaining the package clearly and handling counter-offers honestly.
- Report pipeline health, time to hire and candidate experience to the hiring leads each week.
- Improve the process by reviewing where candidates drop out, and changing the steps that cause it.
What you’ll bring
- Experience recruiting for technical roles, ideally in machine learning, robotics, security or distributed systems.
- A working understanding of how research and engineering work is done, enough to judge a CV beyond its keywords.
- Strong relationship skills, with candidates who trust you enough to tell you what they want and what worries them.
- Organised pipeline management in an applicant tracking system, with clean notes and accurate reporting.
- Commercial awareness of compensation in competitive markets, and the discipline to stay within agreed bands.
- Clear written communication, including outreach that reads as personal rather than templated.
Nice to have
- Experience recruiting across New York, San Francisco and London, including visa and relocation considerations.
- A network of researchers or engineers in frontier AI, autonomy or security that you can use responsibly.
- Experience hiring for an early-stage or fast-growing technical company, from its first ten hires onwards.
- Familiarity with structured interviewing and calibration practice for technical roles.
Work you might take on
- 01
Build a sourcing map for applied machine learning researchers, updated monthly with new publications and open source contributors.
- 02
Redesign the candidate feedback process so every applicant hears a decision within a week, with a reason where possible.
- 03
Run a drop-off analysis across the last six hiring loops and propose three changes to the interview stages.
- 04
Create a calibrated interview guide for distributed systems roles, reviewed by three engineering leads before use.
Compensation
$150K – $230K
The US base salary range for this role. Every offer also includes equity in Clexerl and, when it spins out, in the venture you help build. We tell you the reasoning behind your number.
Benefits
Health, fully covered
Medical, dental and vision for you and your dependants, premiums paid in full.
Two kinds of equity
Equity in Clexerl, plus a stake in the venture you help build when it spins out.
22 weeks parental leave
Fully paid, for every parent, however your family arrives.
Rest that sticks
Flexible time off with a four-week minimum we actually check on, plus a company-wide week in December.
Learning and compute
A yearly budget for courses, conferences and books, and compute credits for side projects.
401(k) with a 4% match
Matched from your first paycheque and vested immediately.
How we hire
Apply 5 minutes
Send links to what you have built and a few lines on why this role. No cover letter needed.
Intro call 30 minutes
A conversation with the hiring manager about the work, the team and what you want next.
Work sample 2–4 hours
A paid take-home or a pairing session on a real-shaped problem. You pick the format.
Studio day One day
Meet the team, go deep on your work and ours. Remote or in person.
Offer Within 5 days
A written offer with the full range, the equity and the reasoning behind both.
Opens an email with a short template. Links beat résumés.