Senior Technical Recruiter
Nscale is hiring a Senior Technical Recruiter in San Francisco, United States. It pays $160k-$210k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Level.
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- Level rates this HR role Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
- Pay on this posting starts 33% higher than the typical HR posting on Level.
- The posting mentions Hugging Face, vLLM and PyTorch among its tools and skills.
- Nscale has 291 other open roles on Level.
- This posting went up in the last few days.
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About Nscale
Nscale is the GPU cloud engineered for AI. We provide cost-effective, high-performance infrastructure for AI start-ups and large enterprise customers. Nscale enables AI-focused companies to achieve superior results by reducing the complexity of AI development. Our GPU cloud bolsters technical capabilities and directly supports strategic business outcomes, including cost management, rapid innovation, and environmental responsibility.
We thrive on a culture of relentless innovation, ownership, and accountability, where every team member takes pride in their work and drives it with excellence and urgency. As an Nscaler, you’ll build trust through openness and transparency, where everyone is inspired to do their best work. If you join our team, you’ll be contributing to building the technology that powers the future.
About the Role
We’re looking for a Senior Technical Recruiter to lead end-to-end hiring for the teams building Nscale’s AI infrastructure platform. You’ll partner closely with engineering and product leaders to hire exceptional talent across cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, platform engineering, developer tooling, and open-source ecosystems.
This is a hands-on, high-impact role. You will personally run critical searches, bring sharp market intelligence to hiring decisions, and help build the teams that make Nscale’s GPU cloud faster, more reliable, and easier for customers to use.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Own full-cycle recruiting for technical roles, from intake and calibration through sourcing, assessment design, offer management, and closing.
- Partner with senior engineering, product, and infrastructure leaders to define talent needs, hiring plans, and compelling candidate value propositions.
- Proactively build and engage high-yield talent pipelines, focusing heavily on outbound sourcing within hard-to-reach engineering communities.
- Bring practical market insight on talent availability, compensation, competitor mapping, and realistic time-to-fill expectations.
- Design and continuously improve structured interview processes, including clear competencies, calibrated scorecards, and evidence-based debriefs.
- Develop creative sourcing strategies for highly technical, passive candidates in competitive markets.
- Deliver an exceptional candidate experience that is timely, transparent, informed, and appropriately high-touch.
- Use recruiting data and market feedback to influence hiring priorities and improve delivery over time.
About You
- 8+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, gained in-house and/or in a high-performing search environment.
- Demonstrated experience hiring software engineers and technical leaders for a Neocloud, hyperscaler, AI infrastructure company, cloud platform, or open-source software business.
- Strong understanding of technical talent markets across areas such as cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, Kubernetes, GPU/AI platforms, storage, networking, platform engineering, developer tools, or developer experience.
- Strong functional knowledge of the modern open-source AI infrastructure ecosystem, such as vLLM, Ray, PyTorch, DeepSpeed, Hugging Face TGI, or similar.
- Proven ability to recruit across a range of seniorities, including senior individual contributors and technical leadership roles.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to influence and constructively challenge senior technical leaders.
- Strong sourcing capability, including market mapping, talent research, targeted outreach, and building long-term candidate relationships.
- A high bar for quality, process, and candidate experience, with comfort using structured and data-informed hiring practices.
- Ability to operate with pace, sound judgement, and ownership in a high-growth environment.
Nice to Have
- Experience recruiting for AI infrastructure, GPU cloud, data centre software, developer platforms, or open-source communities.
- Familiarity with hiring technical talent across the USA and Europe, including location, compensation, and compliance complexity.
- Experience supporting rapid technical team growth while maintaining a high hiring bar.
- Experience partnering with compensation and people teams on levelling, offers, and market benchmarking.
Why This Role Matters
Nscale’s ability to deliver world-class AI infrastructure depends on the technical teams we build. This role will directly shape the engineering and platform talent behind our cloud, helping us scale with both speed and quality as we build the technology that powers the future.
Equal Opportunities Statement
We strongly encourage applications from people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds. If there’s anything we can do to accommodate your specific situation, please let us know.
The responsibilities outlined in this job description are not exhaustive and are intended to provide a general overview of the position. The employee may be required to perform additional duties, tasks, and responsibilities as assigned by management, consistent with the skills and qualifications required for the role.
The range below reflects the base salary for the position. Actual compensation may vary based on job-related factors such as skill set, experience, education, and location. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for bonus, equity, and/or commission programs. Nscale may offer a competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, flexible paid time off, parental leave, and retirement plan participation.
Salary Range$160,000—$210,000 USDFor information on how Nscale handles candidate personal data, please see our Employee & Candidate Privacy Notice: Here.
Nscale does not accept unsolicited candidate submissions from recruitment agencies.
How we rate this
Senior Technical Recruiter at Nscale rates 25 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.
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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- Walk me through how you've used vLLM in your day-to-day work.
- What are the limits of PyTorch that you've run into, and how did you work around them?
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- List these exact terms on your resume: Hugging Face, vLLM, and PyTorch. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
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