Senior Technical Recruiter, AI/ML Research

Together AI is hiring a Senior Technical Recruiter, AI/ML Research in San Francisco, United States. It pays $165k-$210k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Together AI.

Level's read on this job

Level rates this HR role Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
Pay on this posting starts 38% higher than the typical HR posting on Level.
The posting mentions Cursor, Elevenlabs and Decagon among its tools and skills.
Level classes it as a senior role.
Together AI has 84 other open roles on Level.

AI in this role

Lead full-cycle technical recruiting specifically focused on hiring world-class AI researchers and machine learning engineers.

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About the Role

Together AI is building the AI Native Cloud — an end-to-end platform for generative AI lifecycle, integrating fast, reliable inference, and model-shaping services with cutting-edge AI cloud infrastructure. We are looking for a seasoned Senior Technical Recruiter to partner closely with AI Research and Engineering leadership to scale world-class research teams across kernels, inference optimization, applied AI and model shaping.

This role is ideal for someone who understands the unique dynamics of recruiting top-tier AI researchers and research engineers in a highly competitive market and can operate as a strategic talent partner to technical leadership.

Responsibilities

Partner with executives, research leadership, and hiring managers to define and execute hiring strategies
Lead full-cycle recruiting for specialized AI talent, including researchers, research engineers, applied scientists, and ML systems engineers
Build and nurture relationships with top AI talent across academia, open-source communities, research labs, and industry networks
Drive exceptional candidate experiences from initial engagement through offer close, with a strong focus on relationship building and long-term talent cultivation
Provide market intelligence on AI talent trends, compensation, competitive hiring landscapes, and emerging research organizations to influence hiring strategy and organizational planning
Collaborate cross-functionally with sourcing, coordination, people operations, and leadership teams to continuously improve recruiting processes and operational excellence
Design and refine interview processes tailored for research hiring, including technical evaluations, publication reviews, and research presentation loops

Requirements

5+ years of technical recruiting experience at high-growth technology companies, with a proven track record hiring exceptional AI researchers, research engineers, applied scientists, or ML infrastructure talent at leading AI labs, hyper-scale startups, or frontier technology companies
Experience recruiting from both industry and academic pipelines, including familiarity with publications, conferences, open-source contributions, and research communities
Ability to build trusted partnerships with senior technical leaders and influence hiring decisions through data and market expertise
Resourceful, adaptable, and creative in solving recruiting challenges, with comfort operating in fast-paced, ambiguous, high-growth environments with rapidly evolving priorities and hiring needs
Demonstrated ability to design recruiting processes and talent strategies from the ground up for emerging technical organizations
Strong execution mindset with the ability to navigate complex searches and close highly competitive candidates in constrained talent markets

About Together AI

Together AI, the AI Native Cloud, is purpose-built for AI engineers. AI application developers get high-performance inference that scales reliably, fine-tuning and reinforcement learning for creating frontier-level specialized models, and pre-training at massive scale for fully custom intelligence, all around a marketplace of leading open models that teams can run, adapt, and own. Trusted by Cursor, Decagon, ElevenLabs, Salesforce, and Zoom, Together serves 400+ trillion tokens a month.

Compensation

We offer competitive compensation, startup equity, health insurance, and other benefits, as well as flexibility in terms of remote work. The US base salary range for this full-time position is: $165,000 - $210,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by location, level and role. Individual compensation will be determined by experience, skills, and job-related knowledge.

Equal Opportunity

Together AI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more.

Please see our Privacy Policy at https://www.together.ai/privacy

How we rate this

Senior Technical Recruiter, AI/ML Research at Together AI rates 30 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

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Key facts

Senior Technical Recruiter, AI/ML Research is an open job at Together AI.
Level rates this role AI Level 1 of 4: Little AI.
The listed salary is $165k-$210k a year.
The role is based in San Francisco.
The job was posted on May 28, 2026.
Seniority: senior.
Applications are handled by Together AI. Apply on Together AI

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

Fine-tuningAI ResearchTechnical RecruitingTalent AcquisitionExecutive SearchCursorElevenlabsDecagon

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Pay

This job starts at: $165k
Typical HR job: $120k

This posting starts 38% above the typical HR job. See HR jobs

Questions you could be asked

Walk me through fine-tuning a model: what data did you use, and how did you check the result?
Tell me about a research question you investigated. What did you find?
Tell me about a project where technical recruiting was part of your work. What did you do?
Tell me about a project where talent acquisition was part of your work. What did you do?
Tell me about a project where executive search was part of your work. What did you do?

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