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We evaluate AI models for the leading frontier labs while building real-time threat detection and adaptive adversarial red teaming agents for teams deploying AI.\nWe’re a team of approximately 50 people, well-funded, and growing quickly. Our work directly influences how the world deploys AI agents and systems at scale.\nLearn more about how we work\nThe Role\nWe’re looking for a Senior Technical Recruiter to own recruiting across Gray Swan’s technical organization, spanning Software Engineering, Infrastructure, AI/ML, Security, Research, and other emerging technical functions.\nThis is a high-ownership role for someone who can operate as both a strategic talent partner and hands-on technical recruiter. You’ll work closely with engineering and technical leadership to define what great looks like, develop hiring strategies, map highly competitive talent markets, and personally execute searches from first outreach through close.\nWe’re looking for someone who is a doer. You’ll source, screen, build pipelines, close candidates, analyze recruiting data, and solve problems when searches aren’t working. You should be equally comfortable partnering with an engineering leader on a difficult hiring decision and spending the afternoon personally sourcing exceptional engineers.\nWhat You’ll Do\nOwn full-cycle technical recruiting from role definition and talent mapping through sourcing, assessment, offer strategy, and close.\n\nPartner with engineering and technical leadership as a trusted talent advisor, helping define profiles, understand the market, calibrate on talent, and make better hiring decisions.\n\nRecruit across highly technical functions including Software Engineering, Infrastructure, AI/ML, Security, Research, and technical customer-facing roles.\n\nBuild exceptional passive talent pipelines through creative sourcing, market research, networking, targeted outreach, and referrals.\n\nDevelop a deep understanding of technical talent markets and proactively identify candidates who may not be actively looking.\n\nRecruit and close highly sought-after technical candidates, developing compelling pitches, understanding candidate motivations, navigating objections, and competing effectively for top talent.\n\nCoach and challenge hiring teams on technical profiles, interview processes, candidate calibration, and hiring decisions.\n\nPartner with engineering leaders to improve technical interview design, scorecards, calibration, and debrief processes.\n\nUse recruiting data and market intelligence to understand pipeline health, conversion rates, sourcing effectiveness, time-to-fill, and offer acceptance, and adjust strategy accordingly.\n\nManage multiple high-priority technical searches simultaneously while maintaining a high bar for candidate quality and experience.\n\nDeliver an exceptional candidate experience that is thoughtful, responsive, rigorous, and highly personal.\n\nHelp build recruiting infrastructure and processes that can scale as Gray Swan grows.\n\nWho You Are\n5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with significant experience recruiting technical talent.\n\nA strong track record recruiting software engineers and other highly technical candidates in competitive markets.\n\nExperience recruiting for a high-growth startup, ideally at an early-stage or pre-IPO company.\n\nExperience partnering directly with engineering leaders, technical executives, and hiring managers.\n\nStrong technical sourcing instincts-you enjoy the hunt and know how to identify exceptional engineers beyond the obvious candidate pools.\n\nThe ability to understand technical roles well enough to effectively source, assess, calibrate, and sell candidates, without needing to be an engineer yourself.\n\nA track record of identifying, engaging, and closing passive technical candidates.\n\nThe confidence and judgment to coach hiring teams and push back when a profile, process, or hiring decision needs to change.\n\nHigh ownership and the ability to make decisions and move work forward without waiting for direction.\n\nStrong operational discipline and comfort managing multiple high-priority searches simultaneously.\n\nA data-driven approach to recruiting and the ability to diagnose why a search isn’t working and adjust quickly.\n\nA builder mentality. You’re energized by creating and improving recruiting processes rather than simply operating within established ones.\n\nCuriosity about AI and AI security. You don’t need to be an AI expert, but you should be excited to learn about our technology, understand our technical teams, and become fluent in the markets we recruit from.\n\nBonus Points If You Have\nExperience recruiting technical talent at an early-stage or rapidly scaling startup, where you helped build the recruiting function while actively hiring.\n\nExperience recruiting within AI, cybersecurity, developer tools, enterprise software, infrastructure, or another highly technical market.\n\nExperience hiring across a range of technical profiles, from software engineers and infrastructure engineers to security engineers, ML/AI engineers, and research-oriented technical talent.\n\nExperience recruiting for highly competitive or niche technical talent markets.\n\nExperience using AI and recruiting technology to improve sourcing, market mapping, candidate engagement, or recruiting operations.\n\nExperience building technical recruiting strategies from scratch, including talent mapping, sourcing strategy, interview processes, and recruiting metrics.\n\nIf you don’t have 100% of these, you should still seriously consider applying. We care more about what you can do than your credentials.\nYou’ll Thrive Here If You\nYou’re an owner and a doer. You can advise an engineering leader on talent strategy in the morning and spend the afternoon personally sourcing the engineers you believe they should meet.\n\nYou have a point of view and aren’t afraid to use it. You’ll challenge an unrealistic technical profile, push for a faster decision, or recommend changing course when the market tells us something isn’t working.\n\nYou move with urgency, hold a high bar, and care more about building an exceptional technical team than simply filling roles.\n\nYou’re excited by difficult searches. 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