Senior Technical Recruiter

Job Description – Senior Technical Recruiter

Location: San Francisco (on-site at our offices)

About Artificial Analysis

Artificial Analysis is the leading independent AI benchmarking company. We support labs, engineers and enterprises to understand AI capabilities and make critical decisions about their AI strategies. We are the go-to authority for understanding AI, from AI labs and enterprises to media, investors, and policymakers. Our benchmarks don’t just measure the cutting edge of AI, they are actively shaping the frontier.

Our benchmarks and analysis are trusted by hundreds of thousands of users and are the go-to reference for leading AI labs including OpenAI, Google, Meta, NVIDIA and Anthropic, and major publications including the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, the Financial Times and The Economist.

We are a team of 40+, on track to double by end of year, backed by Nat Friedman (GitHub, Meta), Daniel Gross (SSI, Meta), Andrew Ng (Google Brain, DeepLearning.ai, Amazon), Adam D’Angelo (Quora, Poe, OpenAI), Clem Delangue (Hugging Face) and other industry leaders.

The Opportunity

Artificial Analysis is hiring at least 40 people this year: members of technical staff, engineers, forward deployed engineers, and commercial and operations roles, across San Francisco, Australia and beyond. Today that hiring runs through our Chief of Staff and hiring managers on top of their day jobs. We’re hiring our first in-house recruiter, a Senior Technical Recruiter, to own it end to end.

You will be the engine behind the most important thing we do this year, and it will run at pace. We hold an unusually high bar, our roles cut across technical and commercial profiles, and the candidates we want are rarely looking: AI is a tight industry and the experienced hires we target make proactive outbound the default, not the exception. The job is to find them, run a process they enjoy losing to, and keep a dozen searches moving at once without letting quality slip.

You’ll work directly with our founders, Chief of Staff and hiring managers. Our interview process keeps senior leadership closely involved, so expect to ramp fast on what we do, learn what makes this team special, and get very good at spotting the signal we hire for early, so leadership time goes to the right candidates. We expect you to know the product well enough to represent Artificial Analysis to candidates the way we represent it to customers. As our hiring needs grow, this seat has real potential to grow into leading a recruiting team. Your impact will be visible in every team photo from here on.

What You’ll Do

• Own Full-Cycle Recruiting: Sourcing, screening, pipeline management, scheduling, references and close across all open roles

• Source Proactively: Find the technical generalists, senior engineers and specialist leads who are not on the market

• Run the Hiring Process: Structured stages, fast turnarounds, clean handoffs between interviewers, and an ATS that reflects reality

• Deliver a Candidate Experience Worthy of the Brand: Responsive, direct, and respectful of people’s time, including thoughtful rejections

• Know the Product: Build a real understanding of our benchmarks and the AI landscape, and represent Artificial Analysis to candidates the way we represent it to customers

• Calibrate Bars with Hiring Managers: Sharpen role specs, debrief rigorously, push back when a search is defined wrong, and learn the signal our leadership-led interviews select for so you can spot it at the top of the funnel

• Manage External Partners: Agencies and headhunters where we use them, including retained searches for senior roles

• Become AI-Native: Embrace an AI-native workflow, using cutting-edge AI tools for sourcing, screening and coordination to run leaner than a traditional recruiting function

What We’re Looking For

Required:

• 3+ years of full-cycle recruiting with demonstrable ownership of searches from brief to signed offer, including substantial technical recruiting (engineering, ML, or technical generalist profiles)

• Strong outbound sourcing ability: you find experienced people who are not looking, you do not just process applicants

• Appetite to master what we do: you will ramp hard on our product and the AI landscape, and hold your own with senior technical candidates

• Exceptional organization across parallel searches, with fast, reliable follow-through

• Strong written communication and judgment representing a company to senior candidates

• High discretion: you will handle compensation and sensitive team information daily

Valuable, not expected in full:

• In-house experience at a startup that scaled quickly, or agency experience with a top technical practice

• Familiarity with modern ATS and sourcing tooling, and comfort building light process from scratch

• Experience hiring across countries and time zones

Why Artificial Analysis?

• Build the team that shapes AI: The leading AI labs track our benchmarks and use them to guide their development priorities. Every hire you close raises the ceiling on that work.

• Become fluent in frontier AI: You’ll work alongside the team evaluating every major model as it releases, and build a working fluency in frontier AI that few roles outside a lab can offer.

• Work with the most important players in AI: Our customers and partners are the leading AI labs, chipmakers and enterprises, and your work shapes how they experience Artificial Analysis.

• Join at a defining moment: We’re 40+ people, on track to double by end of year, backed by some of the most connected investors in AI. The people who join now will shape the product, the team, and the strategy as we scale.

• Competitive compensation including equity