Principal Technical Recruiter

Key Responsibilities

• Partner directly with senior leadership, including Directors, VPs, SVPs, to design baseline hiring criteria, forecast workforce needs, and provide data-driven advisory on competitive market conditions.
• Execute advanced sourcing and market mapping strategies to build robust pipelines of passive, high-caliber talent across software engineering, infrastructure, data science, and research domains.
• Lead complex offer negotiations and construct competitive compensation packages while delivering a white-glove candidate experience from outreach to onboarding.
• Establish scalable hiring frameworks, standardized interview rubrics, and structured candidate evaluation processes across the broader engineering organization.
• Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives within the technical recruitment pipeline to ensure fair and comprehensive sourcing strategies.

Key Requirements

• 8+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, ideally in-house within high-growth or enterprise technology environments.
• Proven track record of advising and influencing senior executive stakeholders using market data, pass-through rates, and pipeline health metrics.
• Deep technical acumen with a strong functional understanding of software engineering, infrastructure, data science, or specialized research landscapes.
• Demonstrated expertise in navigating and executing complex, high-level offer negotiations and compensation structuring.
• Ability to work in a hybrid model, commuting to our San Francisco office 2 days per week.