Artificial Intelligence

Technical Sourcer - Engineering

San Francisco, CAOnsiteFull Time$125,000–$190,000 /yrPosted 22 days ago

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Required skills

technical talent
GitHub
technical first call
ownership
outbound sourcing
hiring manager
recruiter
CS degree
technical fluency

Nice to have

AI Native Cloud
AI engineers
inference
fine-tuning
reinforcement learning
pre-training

Role summary

Together AI is seeking a Technical Sourcer with an engineering background to identify and recruit top-tier engineering talent in the Bay Area. This role focuses on proactive outbound sourcing, requiring the ability to evaluate technical skills through GitHub profiles and technical first calls. Responsibilities include building talent pipelines, running outreach campaigns, and partnering closely with the hiring manager and recruiter. The ideal candidate possesses strong technical fluency, persistence, and excellent written communication skills. While recruiting experience is a bonus, the core requirement is a hands-on engineering background. The company offers competitive compensation, equity, and benefits.

About the Role

This is not a traditional sourcing role. We're looking for someone who was an engineer first and wants to put that technical depth to work finding and winning the best engineers in the market. You will own proactive outbound sourcing only the top 1% technical talent in the Bay Area and our other hubs identifying them, reaching them, and judging their work on its merits before anyone else does.

You'll build and run outreach campaigns, keep pipelines full for specific engineering roles, and bring a steady, systematic hustle to it. What sets this role apart is that you can evaluate technical talent. You can read a GitHub profile and see the signal in it. You can run a genuinely technical first call, get into the nuts and bolts of what someone built and their level of ownership, and tell the difference between top-tier and the rest after a single conversation.

You'll report directly to the hiring manager on a tight-knit team of six, with visibility and room to grow into ownership of how we source and evaluate engineering talent. We'll teach you the recruiting craft - the technical judgment is what you bring.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain pipelines of top-1% engineering talent for specific open roles

Design and run proactive outreach campaigns to elite engineers - persistent, high-volume, and well-written

Review GitHub profiles and other technical signals to identify genuinely strong candidates

Run technical first calls that go deep on what a candidate actually built

Screen for real quality, filtering aggressively so that only the best talent reaches the hiring team

Partner closely with the hiring manager and recruiter to calibrate on what "great" looks like for each role

Help shape Together AI's approach to technical sourcing as the function grows

Requirements

A hands-on engineering background - you've worked as an engineer of some kind. A CS degree is a strong plus.

The ability to read a GitHub profile and glean real signal about someone's depth and quality

Enough current technical fluency to run a deep, credible first call with a strong engineer

Persistence, hustle, and resilience - you're energized by outbound and unfazed by rejection

Strong written communication that gets busy engineers to reply

Based in San Francisco

Recruiting or sourcing experience is a bonus, not a requirement - we'll teach you that part.

About Together AI

Together AI, the AI Native Cloud, is purpose-built for AI engineers. AI application developers get high-performance inference that scales reliably, fine-tuning and reinforcement learning for creating frontier-level specialized models, and pre-training at massive scale for fully custom intelligence, all around a marketplace of leading open models that teams can run, adapt, and own. Trusted by Cursor, Decagon, ElevenLabs, Salesforce, and Zoom, Together serves 400+ trillion tokens a month.

Compensation

We offer competitive compensation, startup equity, health insurance and other competitive benefits. The US base salary range for this full-time position is: $125,000 - $190,000K + equity + benefits + incentive bonus. Our salary ranges are determined by location, level and role. Individual compensation will be determined by experience, skills, and job-related knowledge.

Application Policy

Please read each role carefully and apply to the position best suited to you. Candidates are limited to 6 applications within a 90-day period, and applications beyond that limit will be automatically rejected. You may apply to additional roles 90 days after your last application.

Equal Opportunity

Together AI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more.

Please see our privacy policy at https://www.together.ai/privacy.

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