Technical Recruiter

SummaryHere at Imbue, recruiting is mission critical. We believe recruiting is not just about evaluating candidates, but also about understanding them and their journeys on a deep level. And we strive to be thoughtful and as transparent as possible—here’s a blog post explaining our recruiting process in depth.
As a technical recruiter, you will be responsible for owning the candidate experience and growing our team thoughtfully. This position is SF-based with the expectation that you will be in office.
You are• Endlessly curious about people and enjoy supporting their journeys.• Excited to dive deeper into AI and able to talk about technical concepts at a high level.• High agency, scrappy, and find joy in building out teams from the ground up.• Able to connect with individuals quickly and get a sense of their motivations.• Great at engaging passive candidates and getting them excited. • Able to develop and maintain relationships with top talent for both current and future opportunities.• Adept at written communication and highly expressive.• Organized, efficient, and able to stay on top of complex processes and simultaneous tasks.
What you'll do• You will manage outreach and engagement across multiple high priority roles.• One of your primary responsibilities will be to conduct initial chats with candidates. On these calls, you’ll get a sense of the candidate’s motivations, existing skillset, and personal/professional needs. You will also be expected to discuss our company, culture, projects, and roadmap on a deep, meaningful level.• You will manage the end-to-end pipeline of candidates from application to closing the offer. This involves frequent touch points with candidates to support them throughout the process.• You will be responsible for managing the top-of-funnel efforts, including overseeing passive outreach campaigns, filtering applicants, and cultivating strong referrals.• You will partner with the rest of the recruiting team to ensure high-quality, white-glove candidate experience.
Compensation and Benefits• Generous compensation, equity, and benefits.• Lunch provided daily. • $250 lifestyle stipend per month.• Frequent team events, dinners, and off-sites.
The base salary for this range is $135,000 - $190,000 a year.
How to applyAll submissions are reviewed by a person, so we encourage you to include notes on why you're interested in working with us. If you have any other work that you can showcase (open source code, side projects, etc.), certainly include it! We know that talent comes from many backgrounds, and we aim to build a team with diverse skill sets that spike strongly in different areas.
We try to reply either way within a week or two at most (usually much sooner).
Our interview process1. Initial chat (30 minutes)2. Take-home exercise (90 minutes)3. Final onsite interview
About usImbue builds AI systems that reason and code, enabling AI agents to accomplish larger goals and safely work in the real world. We train our own foundation models optimized for reasoning and prototype agents on top of these models. By using these agents extensively, we gain insights into improving both the capabilities of the underlying models and the interaction design for agents.
We aim to rekindle the dream of the *personal* computer, where computers become truly intelligent tools that empower us, giving us freedom, dignity, and agency to pursue the things we love.