Founding Technical Recruiter, AI Research & Engineering

Nuance Labs is building photorealistic, real-time AI avatars with emotional intelligence. They are seeking a Technical Recruiter to own full-cycle recruiting for AI research and engineering talent, focusing on sourcing and closing candidates from leading AI labs and exceptional new PhDs.

Responsibilities:

• Own full-cycle recruiting for AI research and engineering roles, from sourcing through close
• Build deep, high-signal pipelines across AI labs, research universities, startups, and frontier engineering teams
• Proactively source for hard-to-fill roles, including ML researchers, multimodal modeling specialists, ML systems engineers, infrastructure leads, and research fellows
• Develop genuine relationships with candidates long before they are actively interviewing
• Run fast, thoughtful, respectful interview processes that reflect the quality and seriousness of the team
• Partner with founders and hiring managers to calibrate role requirements, interview loops, scorecards, and hiring bars
• Drive debriefs, references, offer strategy, and close plans for high-priority candidates
• Help candidates understand Nuance’s technical ambition, stage, equity story, and long-term upside
• Build the recruiting operating layer over time, including ATS hygiene, sourcing systems, pipeline reporting, interview kits, and process improvements
• Raise the talent bar while keeping the process warm, human, and candidate-centered