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Structured data - the largest and most consequential data format in the world - stayed untouched, until now. What LLMs did for language, we're doing for tables.\nWe pioneered tabular foundation models: TabPFN v2 was a Nature cover story, has passed 3.5M+ downloads and 7,500+ GitHub stars, and runs in production from detecting lung disease with Oxford Cancer Analytics to preventing train failures with Hitachi. The hardest problems - millions of rows, real-time inference, entirely new modalities - are still open, and no one else is working on them at this level.\nWe're a small, highly selective team of 40+ with backgrounds from Google, DeepMind, Meta, Apple, Amazon, Jane Street, and CERN, led by Frank Hutter, Noah Hollmann, and Sauraj Gambhir, and advised by Bernhard Schölkopf and Turing Award winner Yann LeCun.\nIn July 2026, less than 18 months after our €9M pre-seed, we joined SAP as an independent frontier AI lab - same team, mission, and open-weights models, now backed by more than €1 billion over four years.\nAbout the Role\nWe're hiring a technical recruiter to own hiring across Science, Engineering and Data Science. These are three distinct talent markets with three distinct assessment bars, and you'll own all of them end-to-end. We're scaling fast, and competing directly with the best-funded labs in the world for the same people.\nYour Responsibilities\nSource scarce ML research, infrastructure, and forward-deployed talent globally, exploring mainstream and niche talent pools\n\nPosition Prior Labs compellingly against other foundation model labs such as OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, and Mistral and against the enterprise AI companies competing for FDE talent\n\nNavigate multi-hub hiring across Freiburg, Berlin, and New York (visas, comp bands, notice periods)\n\nScreen technical depth quickly across research, engineering, and customer-facing profiles without burning researcher or founder time\n\nRun efficient, structured interview loops with clear rubrics and fast debriefs, calibrated separately for research, engineering, and FDE archetypes\n\nManage, negotiate and close offers, including against competing frontier-lab packages\n\nManage the pipeline operationally in the ATS with clean stages and weekly metrics\n\nThe experience we are looking for\n5+ 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\n\nTrack record closing ML researchers or research engineers against top tier frontier labs (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, Mistral)\n\nExperience hiring at least one customer-facing engineering profile (forward deployed, solutions, or applied engineering) - the assessment bar is different and you'll need to know why\n\nHands-on hiring across at least two of: Germany, wider EU, and the US (NYC)\n\nFluency in the ML talent landscape: top labs, conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AutoML), and what distinguishes a strong research vs. engineering vs. infrastructure profile\n\nModern ATS architecture (Ashby or equivalent): stage design, rejection taxonomy, funnel reporting\n\nThe behaviours we want you to bring everyday to the office\nHigh agency and ownership and operates as a full stack recruiter\n\nDirect and commercially honest with both candidates and hiring managers\n\nDetail-obsessed on pipeline hygiene and weekly metrics; treats the ATS as a source of truth\n\nLocation: 5 days a week based in our Berlin Office (near Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße U-Bahn Station)\nLife at Prior Labs\nYou'll work alongside researchers and builders who hold themselves to a very high bar - in the quality of their work and in how they work with each other. 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