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About the Role
We are looking for a Recruiter to build our talent engine from the ground up and help us rapidly scale our technical talent. This is a rare opportunity to define the DNA of depthfirst during our most critical growth phase, shaping who we hire, how we hire, our culture, and what it means to be a world-class security AI company. You will own full-cycle recruiting for engineering and/or GTM roles, partner directly with founders and hiring managers on hiring strategy, and design the end-to-end recruiting process. This role has the potential to grow into Head of Talent.
Responsibilities
- Own and build full-cycle recruiting for engineering and technical roles, managing multiple searches simultaneously
- Partner directly with founders and hiring managers to define role requirements, ideal candidate profiles, and inform compensation strategy
- Build our recruiting strategy from scratch: defining our sourcing approach, candidate evaluation frameworks, and competitive positioning in the market that maintains a high bar as we scale
- Source proactively and creatively: building pipelines through direct outreach, technical communities, referrals, and other channels
- Help build our employer brand and recruiting narrative, helping candidates understand why depthfirst is the most compelling place to build the future of autonomous security
Requirements
- 5-7+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, ideally at high-growth startups
- Proven track record of hiring exceptional engineering talent in competitive markets
- Deep understanding of technical roles: you can speak credibly about backend systems, ML infrastructure, and security engineering
- Experience building recruiting functions from scratch (0→1) or being an early recruiting hire
- High ownership mentality and comfort with ambiguity: you thrive in fast-moving environments
- Mission-driven and genuinely excited about AI and security
Skills
- Technical recruiting
- Full-cycle recruiting
- Sourcing
- Candidate evaluation
- Employer branding
- Recruiting strategy
- Backend systems
- ML infrastructure
- Security engineering
Location
- San Francisco
Work Type
- In-office
Experience Level
- 5-7+ years
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary with meaningful equity
Benefits
- Health, vision, and dental insurance
- Office lunch and dinner (SF office)
About the Company
- depthfirst is building intelligence to detect and remediate critical software vulnerabilities by training and scaling security AI agents to discover zero-day vulnerabilities across large customer codebases and popular open source software.
- Our founding team brings deep expertise in data, infrastructure, security and AI, with leaders from DeepMind, Databricks, Square, and Faire.
- We're looking for thoughtful, driven people excited to work at the intersection of AI, Security, and Infrastructure.