Senior Technical Recruiter

Your Impact

Handshake is building the future of human data for AI.

We partner directly with leading AI labs to power LLM training and evaluation through expert-labeled, high-quality datasets. As model capabilities advance, the need for specialized technical and domain expertise has never been greater-and Handshake is uniquely positioned to meet this demand. Through our university partnerships and platform, we have direct access to millions of technical experts, researchers, and early-career engineers.

Our AI team is developing next-generation data and infrastructure products-from technical assessment platforms and annotation workflows to model evaluation pipelines and payment systems. To scale these systems, we're hiring top-tier engineering and data talent, and we need a recruiter who knows how to find and close them.

We're hiring a Senior Technical Recruiter to lead hiring for Engineering and Data roles across Handshake AI. Reporting to the Sr. Director of Talent Acquisition, you'll work closely with engineering leadership and cross-functional partners to scale a world-class technical team.

This is a high-impact role with ownership over technical recruiting strategy, pipeline development, and end-to-end execution-focused on hiring the builders powering the future of human data.

Your Role

• Strategic Hiring Partner: Collaborate with engineering and data leaders to shape org design, define role requirements, and prioritize hiring plans aligned to technical roadmap goals.

• Technical Pipeline Ownership: Manage full-cycle recruiting for software engineering, infrastructure, machine learning, data science, and data engineering roles-from outbound sourcing through close.

• Proactive Sourcing & Market Mapping: Build diverse, high-caliber technical pipelines using outbound sourcing, referrals, events, and strategic research. Identify niche talent in AI, infrastructure, distributed systems, data platforms, and beyond.

• Candidate Assessment Strategy: Drive clarity around evaluation rubrics, technical screen processes, and hiring bar calibration across interview teams. Partner with engineering leaders to ensure consistency and rigor.

• Data-Driven Recruiting: Own and report on funnel metrics including conversion rates, pipeline velocity, passthrough health, and candidate experience feedback. Use data to recommend improvements.

• Employer Brand for Technical Talent: Create compelling outreach and candidate-facing content tailored to technical audiences. Represent Handshake at AI and engineering events, meetups, and conferences.

• Exceptional Candidate Experience: Ensure every candidate-regardless of outcome-has a respectful, transparent, and engaging experience reflective of our engineering culture.

Your Experience

• Full-Cycle Technical Recruiting: 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with a track record of hiring for high-impact Engineering and Data roles in early to growth-stage technology companies.

• Deep Technical Acumen: Comfortable understanding technical stacks and matching talent to domain needs (e.g., backend infra, LLM systems, MLOps, data infrastructure, full stack development).

• Executive Collaboration: Adept at building trusted relationships with engineering leaders and technical stakeholders; able to advise on hiring decisions, priorities, and tradeoffs.

• Advanced Sourcing Skills: Proficient in sourcing via LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean, GitHub, Stack Overflow, Noon.ai, and technical communities. Creative and persistent in outreach.

• ATS & Workflow Fluency: Skilled in using ATS systems (e.g., Ashby), structured interview processes, and tools like Gem, Brighthire, and scheduling automation to streamline operations.

• Analytical Mindset: Able to generate reports, track funnel data, and evaluate performance against key hiring metrics. Experience with recruiting dashboards a plus.

• Clear Communicator: Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to engage engineering candidates thoughtfully and convey Handshake's technical vision.