AfterQuery
AI
TechnicalRecruiter
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“Technical Recruiter at AfterQuery. Skills: Technical recruiting, Sourcing, Candidate experience. Own full-cycle recruiting for technical roles. Build high-quality outbound sourcing pipelines”
What You'll Achieve.
Define the hiring systems; Define the candidate experience; Define the talent bar; Improve recruiting funnel metrics; Build the foundation of AfterQuery’s recruiting function
Industry & Context.
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
1+ years of experience in technical recruiting, Proven ability to source, engage, and close engineering candidates, Experience building outbound sourcing pipelines from scratch, Excellent written and verbal communication skills, judgment on candidate quality, calibration, culture fit, and hiring urgency, High agency, ownership, comfort operating in a fast-moving startup environment, Experience partnering directly with founders, executives, or senior hiring managers
Nice to Have
Experience recruiting for AI, ML, data infrastructure, developer tools, quant, or frontier technology companies, network across engineering, AI, startup, university, or quant communities, Experience hiring founding engineers, senior engineers, infrastructure engineers, or other hard-to-close technical talent, Comfortable with LinkedIn Recruiter, ATS systems, sourcing tools, email sequencing tools, and AI-assisted recruiting workflows, Experience improving interview processes, scorecards, calibration systems, or candidate experience, Startup experience
What You'll Do.
Own full-cycle recruiting for technical roles
Build high-quality outbound sourcing pipelines
Source candidates from AI labs
Partner with founders and hiring managers
Run candidate processes end-to-end
Create a high-touch candidate experience
Track and improve recruiting funnel metrics
Help build the foundation of recruiting function
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner directly with the founders; Partner with founders and hiring managers
Communication Scope
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Full Job Description
TECHNICAL RECRUITER As one of our first recruiting hires, you’ll help build the technical team shaping the future of frontier AI data infrastructure. You’ll own recruiting for engineering and technical roles end-to-end, partner directly with the founders, and help define the hiring systems, candidate experience, and talent bar from day one. COMPANY OVERVIEW AfterQuery is a research lab investigating the boundaries and capabilities of artificial intelligence through novel datasets and experimentation. Our customers are foundation model labs, and we serve all of the frontier AI labs. We are based in San Francisco, CA, and have raised funding from top investors, including Altos, Y Combinator, BoxGroup, ex-partners from Lightspeed and Index Ventures, and senior leadership at Google DeepMind and Meta GenAI. We raised a 30M series A at a 300M valuation just under 16 months after starting and have reached a 100M annual run rate in the same time frame. Our founding team brings backgrounds from Jane Street, Meta, Citadel Securities, Google, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Silver Lake, BAIR, and SAIL. WHY APPLY - Massive Opportunity: We were one of the fastest growing YC companies in our batch, and we believe we can be one of the fastest growing YC companies of all time. - Founding Role: You’ll be one of our first recruiting hires and help define how AfterQuery hires world-class technical talent. - High Ownership: You’ll own full-cycle recruiting across engineering and technical roles. - Direct Founder Access: You’ll work directly with the founding team on hiring strategy, candidate calibration, and closing. - Strong Team: Founding team has experience from Citadel Securities, Meta, Google, Silver Lake, Morgan Stanley, and more. RESPONSIBILITIES - Own full-cycle recruiting for technical roles, including software engineering, infrastructure, applied AI, full-stack, and product engineering. - Build high-quality outbound sourcing pipelines for top technical talent. - Source candid
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