Senior Technical Recruiter - Research Engineering Pod
Turing is looking for a Senior Technical Recruiter to join our embedded Research Engineering Recruitment Pod. In this role, you will work side-by-side with our Research Scientists, Research Engineers, and AI leadership to source, engage, and close the talent building at the frontier of AI.
This is not a high-volume, transactional recruiting role. The talent pool for elite Research Engineers and Forward-Deployed Engineers is highly concentrated, hyper-competitive, and continuously targeted by frontier labs. You will act as an embedded strategic partner, mapping passive talent ecosystems across academia, quantitative research, and open-source networks, developing technically informed candidate pipelines, and orchestrating bespoke closing strategies for candidates who do not move through standard corporate hiring funnels.
The Anti-Sell
This is a high-urgency recruiting role. You will compete head-to-head with frontier AI labs and hyperscalers for candidates who are often managing multiple highly competitive offers. Winning in this market requires deep technical literacy, exceptional speed, and continuous market intelligence.
This isn’t for everyone. But if you want to work on an elite team to hire the most sought-after talent in frontier AI and help build the teams defining what comes next in the field, this role may be for you!
What You'll Do
Sourcing & Pipeline Building
Look beyond standard keyword searches by continuously tracking arXiv preprints, GitHub activity, OpenReview submissions, and open-source contributions.
Map and cultivate passive talent ecosystems across top PhD programs (Stanford, MIT, CMU), frontier research labs and high-growth AI startups.
Build proactive candidate pipelines long before formal requisitions open, using emerging signals across research, open-source, and professional networks to identify and engage exceptional talent early.
Engaging Incredibly Hard-to-Reach Talent
Reach passive researchers, Research Engineers, and Forward-Deployed Engineers who do not respond to generic recruiter outreach.
Demonstrate the technical fluency to assess candidate relevance, understand research contributions, and partner with technical leaders on candidate calibration across relevant technical domains.
Closing Highly Sought-After Talent
Partner directly with the CEO, CTO, and research leaders to design and execute individualized closing playbooks for highly sought-after talent.
Win contested offers by understanding each candidate’s motivations and leveraging the aspects of the opportunity that matter most to them.
What We're Looking For
Technical Recruiting Track Record: 4+ years of full-lifecycle technical recruiting experience, with proven depth in AI/ML, Research Engineering, Distributed Systems, or Forward-Deployed Engineering.
Domain Literacy: Ability to speak credibly with top researchers and technical leaders.
Proven Closer: Demonstrated track record of personally sourcing and closing highly sought-after candidates against competing offers from frontier labs or hyperscalers.
Compensation & Equity Fluency: Strong understanding of private-company equity, technical compensation, and competitive market benchmarking.
High Ownership & Startup Speed: Ability to operate with high urgency in a fast-moving AI research environment.
What Success Looks Like
Compounding Talent Density: Continuously raising the technical caliber and execution velocity of Turing’s Research Engineering and Forward-Deployed AI teams.
High Win Rates: Consistently converting highly sought-after candidates and maintaining strong offer acceptance rates in contested searches.
Trusted Technical Partnership: Earning deep trust with research directors and technical leads, acting as an embedded advisor who understands the research roadmap.