Own full-cycle recruiting for Senior AI/ML Engineers, Backend Engineers, and other technical roles from sourcing to offer close
Build and run a proactive sourcing strategy to reach passive candidates — especially those working at the frontier of AI research and applied ML
Partner with engineering leads to deeply understand role requirements, technical signals, and what “exceptional” looks like at Doctronic
Design and iterate on our recruiting process, candidate experience, and employer brand — from scratch
Develop pipelines for contested, hard-to-find talent: LLM engineers, clinical AI specialists, agentic systems builders
Track metrics, manage your pipeline in an ATS, and report on funnel health to leadership
Represent Doctronic at NYC tech and AI events, building our reputation as the team serious engineers want to join

5+ years of technical recruiting, with at least 2 years focused on AI/ML or applied ML roles
Proven track record closing senior AI engineers in a competitive market — people who had other offers
Ability to hold a substantive conversation about model architectures, LLM fine-tuning, agentic systems, and inference pipelines
Experience building recruiting infrastructure at an early-stage startup (no playbook, no coordinator, no excuses)
Strong sourcing instincts — you know where the engineers who never apply are, and how to reach them
Based in New York; this role is hybrid onsite (in office 3 days a week)

Technical Recruiter

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