Founding Technical Recruiter
Litellm
LiteLLM is the world's most popular AI Gateway, trusted by companies like Adobe, Netflix, and NASA. We're building the next generation of infrastructure for AI applications—and now we're building our second product.
Responsibilities
Own end-to-end recruiting—source, engage, and close world-class engineers, operators, and product leaders.
Partner with our hiring managers to determine hiring needs and define our processes.
Use data to drive decisions: tracking and analyzing funnel health, talent pool effectiveness, and hiring velocity to continuously improve hiring efficiencies.
Represent our vision and culture to prospective candidates and the broader talent market.
Build and nurture strong relationships within technical and entrepreneurial communities.
Help establish and document recruiting best practices, evaluation rubrics, and onboarding workflows as our first recruiting hire.
What We’re Looking For
2+ years full-cycle recruiting experience at high-growth startups or tech companies or at a recruiting agency focusing on startups.
Experience hiring for technical (engineering, product) as well as operational roles.
You thrive in fast-paced, high-ownership environments and are passionate about scaling early-stage teams.
Proven ability to communicate effectively, represent company culture, and close top-tier talent.
Bonus: Background working with founders or on a founding hiring team
Bonus: Experience working on a developer focused product
Above all: Drive, grit, and ownership. We’re looking for someone who wants to build something transformative with us.
Why Join LiteLLM?
Work directly with the founders every day.
Build products used by thousands of engineering teams around the world.
Own meaningful product decisions—not just implementation.
Move incredibly fast and see your work in production immediately.
Help define the future of AI infrastructure and developer tooling.
Competitive salary, equity, health, dental, and vision benefits.
About LiteLLM
LiteLLM is the world's most widely adopted AI Gateway. We provide a unified API for 100+ LLM providers along with routing, authentication, budgets, observability, and governance for production AI systems. Thousands of companies rely on LiteLLM to power AI in production.
If you love talking to users, building products, and shipping software that people actually use, we'd love to meet you.
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