Founding Recruiter
Employee•on-site•Palo Alto•$180k - $220k+ Competitive equity
About this role
We are looking for a Founding Recruiter with 5-10 years of experience to own and build our talent pipeline from scratch. We are looking for a highly social, hands-on individual who can think like a founder and is excited to build an elite AI research and engineering team. You will partner directly with the founders to define our talent strategy and will be instrumental in shaping the future of Architect by sourcing, engaging, and closing top-tier researchers and engineers.
What will you be doing?
- Design and execute Architect’s talent strategy from first principles, partnering directly with founders.
- Personally source, engage, and close top-tier candidates across AI research and ML engineering, many of whom are not actively looking.
- Build deep networks within the AI/ML community by attending conferences (approx. once a month) and building relationships with researchers.
- Develop Architect’s recruiting infrastructure from scratch, including tools, processes, and interview loops.
- Act as a key representative for Architect, building our reputation as the premier destination for elite researchers and engineers.
About Architect
Architect is an AI research and product lab for chip design. We build AI models and systems that explore, design, optimize, and verify new hardware. Our goal is to cut the ASIC design time, cost, and human labor by 20x, enabling a new wave of more efficient and ever-specialized silicon.A Stanford spin-out, we are a team of researchers and engineers from Meta, Deepmind, Apple, and more. VC-backed, with angels including a Chief Scientist at Google, Stanford professors, and co-founders of chip companies.Architect is a prod cohort 5.0 company. Prod is one of the most exclusive accelerator in the world with <1% acceptance rate. Previous ursor (valued at 9.9 billion dollars), Mercor (10 billion dollars), Etched (1.5 billion dollars), Decart (3.1 billion dollars), Forge, Interaction, Mach Industries, and Delve, all of which began at Prod when they were only early-stage ideas.
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Architect offers a competitive compensation package for the Founding Recruiter role. The salary range is USD 180k - 220k per year, plus Competitive equity equity. Apply through Clera to learn more about the full compensation details.
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