About the Role
Positron AI is seeking a Senior Recruiter to build, optimize, and scale the company's software hiring engine. This role involves owning full-cycle recruiting for software and systems software positions, partnering with engineering leaders to develop sourcing strategies, build candidate pipelines, and shape a hiring process that aligns with the company's technical standards and fast-paced culture.
Responsibilities
- Own full-cycle recruiting for software engineering roles, from intake through offer and close, across firmware, compiler, runtime, and ML infrastructure teams.
- Manage a healthy requisition load in parallel, keeping candidates, hiring managers, and interview panels moving through the process efficiently.
- Proactively source and engage passive software talent through direct outreach, referrals, professional networks, and targeted outreach campaigns.
- Tap into academic networks, conferences, and industry communities to build pipelines for specialized ML, systems software, and AI infrastructure talent.
- Build and maintain a strong, diverse pipeline of candidates for current and anticipated software hiring needs across the organization.
- Act as a trusted advisor to engineering leaders, helping define role scope, leveling, and hiring plans for software positions.
- Calibrate interview panels and scorecards with hiring managers to ensure a consistent, high signal-to-noise evaluation process.
- Design and run interview loops that give candidates a clear, timely, and positive experience from first contact through offer.
- Lead offer strategy and negotiation, working closely with hiring managers and leadership to close top candidates.
- Stay current on compensation, leveling, and hiring trends across AI infrastructure and semiconductor companies to keep Positron competitive.
- Own the drafting and refinement of software job descriptions and other candidate-facing materials, keeping messaging clear, consistent, and true to Positron's voice.
- Track attrition, retention, and diversity trends within software hiring to inform sourcing strategy and process improvements over time.
- Contribute to employer branding efforts that raise Positron's visibility with software engineers in the AI infrastructure space.
Requirements
- 6+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, with a strong focus on software, firmware, or infrastructure roles.
- Deep expertise in sourcing passive candidates for hard-to-fill engineering roles through channels beyond inbound applicants.
- Hands-on experience partnering with engineering leaders, including senior and executive-level stakeholders, to define hiring plans and calibrate technical interview loops.
- A solid grasp of the AI infrastructure and semiconductor hiring landscape, including competitive compensation and leveling practices.
- Strong ability to manage a high-volume requisition load while maintaining a high bar for candidate experience.
- Experience leveraging AI tools and LLMs to optimize recruiting workflows, sourcing efficiency, and candidate engagement.
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills, with a track record of closing competitive offers in a tight talent market.
- Proven experience using an applicant tracking system to manage pipelines and reporting.
Skills
- AI tools
- LLMs
- Applicant Tracking System (ATS)
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Remote-first
Experience Level
- Senior
- 6+ years
Salary/Compensations
- $150,000 – $200,000
Benefits
- Fully company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
- Company-paid life and disability coverage, with voluntary options to add more
- Supplemental hospital, critical illness, and accident coverage available
- Unlimited paid time off
- 13 paid company holidays
- Company-provided computer and home office setup
- Competitive salary and equity
- 401(k) with company matching, eligible from day one
- H-1B visa transfers facilitated for eligible candidates
About the Company
- Positron AI is a growth-oriented organization focused on inference systems and AI accelerator design.
- The company is early-stage and offers opportunities to shape the software hiring function, tooling, and employer brand.
- Leverages agentic and LLM-powered tooling to modernize recruiting processes.
Equal Opportunity
- Equal Opportunity Employer.
- If you're excited about the role but don't meet every bullet, we'd still love to hear from you.
