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Technical Recruiter (Berlin) at Prior Labs

Technical Recruiter (Berlin)

Prior Labs · BE, DE

1 weeks ago

Technical Recruiter (Berlin)

Prior Labs · BE, DE

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About the Role

We are hiring a technical recruiter to own hiring across Science, Engineering, and Data Science. You will be responsible for managing these distinct talent markets end-to-end as we scale and compete for top talent globally.

Responsibilities

  • Source scarce ML research, infrastructure, and forward-deployed talent globally, exploring mainstream and niche talent pools.
  • Position Prior Labs compellingly against other foundation model labs and enterprise AI companies.
  • Navigate multi-hub hiring across Freiburg, Berlin, and New York, managing visas, compensation bands, and notice periods.
  • Screen technical depth quickly across research, engineering, and customer-facing profiles without consuming excessive researcher or founder time.
  • Run efficient, structured interview loops with clear rubrics and fast debriefs, calibrated for different archetypes.
  • Manage, negotiate, and close offers, including against competing frontier-lab packages.
  • Manage the pipeline operationally in the ATS with clean stages and weekly metrics.

Requirements

  • 5+ years in-house technical recruiting at a deep-tech, AI/ML, or research-led startup (Series A and ), or in a frontier lab's talent team.
  • Track record closing ML researchers or research engineers against top tier frontier labs (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, Mistral).
  • Experience hiring at least one customer-facing engineering profile (forward deployed, solutions, or applied engineering).
  • Hands-on hiring experience across at least two of: Germany, wider EU, and the US (NYC).
  • Fluency in the ML talent landscape, including top labs, conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AutoML), and distinguishing research vs. engineering vs. infrastructure profiles.
  • Experience with modern ATS architecture (Ashby or equivalent), including stage design, rejection taxonomy, and funnel reporting.

Skills

  • Technical recruiting
  • ML research talent sourcing
  • Infrastructure talent sourcing
  • Forward-deployed talent sourcing
  • Talent market analysis
  • Candidate screening
  • Interview loop management
  • Offer negotiation
  • ATS management
  • Pipeline management
  • Full stack recruiting

Location

  • Berlin, Germany

Work Type

  • Onsite
  • Remote (exceptional cases with frequent travel)

Experience Level

  • 5+ years

About the Company

  • Foundation models transformed text and images. We are pioneering tabular foundation models, with our TabPFN v2 featured on a Nature cover and widely downloaded. We are a selective team with backgrounds from leading tech companies and research institutions. In July 2026, we joined SAP as an independent frontier AI lab, backed by over €1 billion over four years, maintaining our team, mission, and open-weights models.

Equal Opportunity

  • We welcome applications from all identities and walks of life, especially if you've ever felt discouraged by 'not checking every box'. We provide equal opportunities regardless of gender, sexual orientation, origin, disability, or any other trait that makes you who you are.
  • We care about how your data is handled - see our Recruiting Data Privacy page.