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Based in San Francisco, California, Turing is the world’s leading research accelerator for frontier AI labs and a trusted partner for global enterprises looking to deploy advanced AI systems. Turing accelerates frontier research with high-quality data, specialized talent, and training pipelines that advance thinking, reasoning, coding, multimodality, and STEM. For enterprises, Turing builds proprietary intelligence systems that integrate AI into mission-critical workflows, unlock transformative outcomes, and drive lasting competitive advantage.
Recognized by Forbes, The Information, and Fast Company among the world’s top innovators, Turing’s leadership team includes AI technologists from Meta, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, McKinsey, Bain, Stanford, Caltech, and MIT. Learn more at www.turing.com
Senior Technical Recruiter Location: United States (Bay Area preferred - Hybrid)
Experience: 6–10+ Years
Type: Individual Contributor
About the Role
We are looking for an exceptional Senior Technical Recruiter to join our Talent team. This is a full-cycle, individual contributor role responsible for driving end-to-end recruitment for technical positions across the organization, with a focus on AI, ML, and agentic engineering talent.
The ideal candidate is a strategic operator — someone who recruits with the end in mind, builds trusted relationships with executive stakeholders, and closes competitive offers without flinching. You bring deep sourcing expertise, strong market instincts, and a data-driven approach to every search. You have a track record at companies people recognize, long tenures that reflect real ownership, and the startup experience to thrive in a high-velocity, high-ambiguity environment.
This is not a requisition-processing role. We are looking for someone who treats recruiting as a craft and AI as a competitive advantage.
What You'll Do
- Own and manage the full recruitment lifecycle for technical roles, with particular depth in AI, ML, agentic systems, and software engineering
- Partner directly with executive and senior hiring managers to run structured intake meetings, define hiring strategy, and align on success criteria
- Build proactive, multi-channel sourcing strategies using LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, Boolean search, talent mapping, referral networks, and AI-powered sourcing tools
- Screen and evaluate candidates for both technical capability and cultural alignment
- Manage the interview process end-to-end, ensuring a consistent and high-quality candidate experience
- Drive stakeholder alignment and influence hiring decisions at the executive level with data, market intelligence, and clear point-of-view
- Lead offer negotiations and candidate closing conversations, including managing competing offers, counter-offer scenarios, and complex compensation structures
- Provide ongoing market intelligence: compensation benchmarks, talent mapping, competitor hiring trends, and AI talent landscape shifts
- Track and report on pipeline metrics, conversion rates, and time-to-fill; maintain rigorous ATS hygiene (Greenhouse preferred)
- Champion AI-forward recruiting practices — actively evaluate and adopt tools that improve sourcing quality, pipeline efficiency, and candidate assessment
- Continuously improve hiring processes for speed, quality, and equity
What We're Looking For
Experience
- 6–10+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, with at least 3 years in a senior or lead individual contributor capacity
- Demonstrated success hiring for Engineering, AI/ML, Agentic Systems, Data, or Security roles in competitive markets
- Proven experience influencing executive-level stakeholders and partnering with senior hiring managers as a strategic advisor
- Meaningful tenure at previous employers reflecting real ownership and investment in outcomes, not frequent role-hopping
- Startup or high-growth experience preferred; comfort with ambiguity, shifting priorities, and building process where little exists
- US-based hiring experience required; global hiring exposure a strong plus
Core Competencies
Technical / Hard Skills
- End-to-end technical recruiting with a specialization in AI/ML or agentic engineering talent
- Advanced sourcing expertise: Boolean search, LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, talent mapping, and AI-assisted sourcing tools
- Offer negotiation and candidate closing, including competing offer management and counter-offer inoculation
- Data-driven recruiting: pipeline metrics, conversion tracking, capacity planning, and reporting to leadership
- Market intelligence: compensation benchmarking, talent landscape analysis, competitor insights
- ATS proficiency (Greenhouse preferred)
Soft Skills
- Executive presence and the ability to influence senior stakeholders with data and clear recommendations
- Strategic problem-solving — you diagnose root causes, not just symptoms
- Strong ownership mindset: you treat every open role as your own business problem to solve
- High resilience and accountability; you close what you open
- Comfort operating at startup speed with limited support infrastructure
- Intellectual curiosity about AI and its implications for the talent landscape
Ideal Background
We are especially interested in candidates who have built their careers at:
- AI-first companies or AI research organizations
- High-growth technology startups (Series B through IPO)
- SaaS or product-led technology companies
- Enterprise technology firms with rigorous technical hiring standards
The strongest candidates will have a clear arc — serious companies, meaningful tenures, progressively complex roles — and will be able to speak credibly about the AI talent market, not just navigate a requisition queue.
Compensation: $140,000–$175,000+ base
Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, skills, and qualifications. Turing is an equal opportunity employer.
- We are client first: We put our clients at the center of everything we do, because their success is the ultimate measure of our value.
- We work at Start-Up Speed: We move fast, stay agile and favor action because momentum is the foundation of perfection
- We are Al forward: We help our clients build the future of Al and implement it in our own roles and workflow to amplify productivity.
- Amazing work culture (Super collaborative & supportive work environment; 5 days a week)
- Awesome colleagues (Surround yourself with top talent from Meta, Google, LinkedIn etc. as well as people with deep startup experience)
- Competitive compensation
- Flexible working hours
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. Turing is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics. At Turing we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace and celebrate authenticity, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
For applicants from the European Union, please review Turing's GDPR notice here.
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