Contract Tech Recruiter (AI/ML)

Type: Temp (3–6 months) • Location: Remote US TZs Roles: Forward Deployed Engineer, Senior ML Engineer, Research Engineer/Scientist (Alignment), AI Product Manager What You’ll Do (90% of your time) Sourcing (high-volume, targeted) Build curated hit-lists (companies, labs, OSS repos, arXiv/Google Scholar, conference rosters). Run 120+ tailored outreaches/week; iterate subject lines/copy; track reply → screen conversion. Deliver 12–20 net-new qualified prospects/week across the four roles. Screening (technical + fit) 20–30 min calibration screen: LLM/ML fundamentals (serving, RAG, evals, fine-tuning), systems depth, and product sense. Validate artifacts: repos, papers/preprints, benchmarks, shipped features. Record structured notes to scorecards; advance/decline within 24 hours. Interviewing (structured, signal-rich) Run/host first-rounds and working sessions: FDE: customer debug + rapid proto scenario. Sr ML: system design for inference/training + MLOps trade-offs. Research/Alignment: paper deep-dive, eval design, interpretability/RLHF discussion. AI PM: PRD outline + model/metric trade-offs + experiment plan. Keep panels on-script; capture evidence, not vibes. Must-Haves 4+ yrs tech recruiting (2+ in AI/ML or deep eng). Comfortable doing first-pass tech screens. Fluency with ATS + LinkedIn Recruiter; hands-on with GitHub search and academic sources. Tight communicator; zero tolerance for sloppy pipelines.