Senior Technical Sourcer, Recruiting

AssemblyAI builds the best-in-class Voice AI models powering the next generation of voice applications. Our models serve 600M+ inference calls monthly, process 1M+ hours of audio daily, and power 2 billion+ end-user experiences. we’re looking for folks truly excited to join a small team and help define the future of the industry.

With thousands of customers including Granola, Fireflies, Figure AI, and CallRail, the company has real scale - processing over 2 million hours of audio daily and handling more than 1 million API calls every day. This is a rare growth-stage opportunity where the business is proven and the trajectory is steep, but the team is still small enough that your fingerprints are on everything.

For anyone who genuinely cares about voice AI, not as a trend to chase, but as a technology to build, this is the place where the most interesting problems at the most interesting scale are being solved by a team small enough that you'll actually know everyone's name.

No matter your race, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, origin, ability, age, veteran status, if joining this mission speaks to you.

AssemblyAI builds the best-in-class Voice AI models powering the next generation of voice applications. Our models serve 600M+ inference calls monthly, process 1M+ hours of audio daily, and power 2 billion+ end-user experiences. we’re looking for folks truly excited to join a small team and help define the future of the industry.

With thousands of customers including Granola, Fireflies, Figure AI, and CallRail, the company has real scale - processing over 2 million hours of audio daily and handling more than 1 million API calls every day. This is a rare growth-stage opportunity where the business is proven and the trajectory is steep, but the team is still small enough that your fingerprints are on everything.

For anyone who genuinely cares about voice AI, not as a trend to chase, but as a technology to build, this is the place where the most interesting problems at the most interesting scale are being solved by a team small enough that you'll actually know everyone's name.

No matter your race, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, origin, ability, age, veteran status, if joining this mission speaks to you.

AssemblyAI builds the foundational speech models behind the Voice AI products our customers build. The people who train those models and build the systems that serve them are some of the hardest people in tech to hire; and we need to hire a lot more of them in 2027.

Own full-cycle recruiting for Research and senior Engineering roles, from intake through offer and close

Build deep, outbound-first pipelines: map talent at frontier labs, speech and audio teams, and academic groups; Partner with research and engineering leaders to define profiles, calibrate on bar, and design quality, efficient interview loops

Run thoughtful screens with technical candidates and give hiring managers sharp, evidence-based reads

Lead complex closes: competing offers from large labs, equity conversations, and international candidates, in partnership with the People team

Use data and AI tooling to work faster: smarter sourcing, cleaner Greenhouse pipelines, and clear reporting on funnel health

Help the team scale: interviewer training, structured kits, and a candidate experience that reflects how much we care about the work

5+ years of technical recruiting, with a track record of hiring ML researchers, research engineers, or ML/infrastructure engineers at AI labs, AI-native startups, or top tech companies

A strong outbound sourcing practice and a network in the ML/AI research community

Enough technical fluency to talk credibly about model training, evaluation, and inference with researchers, and to tell a strong profile from a keyword match

Experience closing senior, sought-after candidates against competing offers, including equity-heavy packages

Comfort with Greenhouse, LinkedIn Recruiter, JuiceBox (or similar), and modern AI sourcing tools

AssemblyAI strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity across our team. Salary determinations consider a variety of factors, including relevant experience, technical depth, skills demonstrated during the interview process, and maintaining internal equity with peers on the team. The expected cash compensation for this role is listed above. Our total compensation package includes competitive equity grants and 100% employer-paid benefits.

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