Technical Recruiter

Rox

• $180K — $250K *
Staffing
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 1+ year of professional experience in technical recruiting, preferably in an early-stage startup.
  • Experience hiring software engineers, particularly in Applied AI, ML, or infrastructure roles.
  • Technical fluency in engineering concepts, interview processes, and organizational structures.
  • Proven ability to operate independently and build recruiting processes from the ground up.
  • Demonstrated high-impact performance with a focus on leveraging resources effectively.
  • Familiarity with modern recruiting tools like Ashby, Slack, and Notion, as well as AI-native workflows.
  • Genuine interest in Rox's mission and product, with a proactive approach to learning about the company.

Responsibilities

  • Run full-cycle recruiting for Applied AI and AI infrastructure engineering roles.
  • Build and maintain technical sourcing pipelines using AI-native tools.
  • Collaborate with engineering managers on interview design and candidate experience.
  • Conduct structured candidate screenings and contribute to hiring decisions.
  • Manage relationships with agencies and partners to enhance recruiting efforts.
  • Develop and implement internal recruiting tools and automations.
  • Ensure clear reporting and visibility of recruiting pipelines for engineering leadership.
  • Act as a representative of Rox at events and in candidate interactions.

Benefits

  • Flexible work environment with a minimum in-office requirement of three days a week.
  • Opportunity to work closely with engineering leaders and influence hiring processes.
  • Access to cutting-edge AI-native recruiting tools and technologies.
  • Engagement in a small, dynamic team where individual contributions are highly valued.
  • Chance to directly impact the growth and direction of the company.
Full Job Description
About the Team

Talent at Rox has been a team of one. That is about to change.

We are hiring a full-time Technical Recruiter to sit in core engineering recruiting alongside our Head of Talent. This is talent engineering: an elite recruiter hiring elite builders inside a fully agentic environment. The desk is Applied AI and AI infrastructure engineering - not a generalist eng recruiting seat.

Location: This role is based in our San Francisco office. You need to be in the office a minimum of three days a week.

Why This Role Is Technical

We are hiring for technical depth on purpose. The more you already know Applied AI and AI infra talent markets - the companies, the stacks, the interview bars, the brands worth pulling from - the faster you drive impact here. You will partner with engineering leaders who expect you to speak their language.

What You Will Do
  • Run full-cycle recruiting for Applied AI and AI infrastructure engineering roles
  • Build and maintain technical sourcing pipelines using AI-native tooling, not just job boards and cold outreach
  • Partner with engineering hiring managers on bar calibration, interview design, and candidate experience
  • Run structured screens and contribute to technical hiring decisions with real judgment
  • Manage agency and partner relationships end to end where they add leverage
  • Build and ship internal recruiting tools and automations (Claude, Ashby, Slack, Notion)
  • Keep reporting and pipeline visibility sharp for engineering leadership
  • Represent Rox at events, on calls, and in every candidate touchpoint as a face of the company
  • Get hands-on with the Rox product itself, including regular dogfooding, so you can sell the mission with real conviction


What We Are Looking For
  • Required: 1+ year of professional experience, including 1+ year of technical recruiting in an early-stage startup. You have hired software engineers - ideally Applied AI, ML, or infrastructure - not adjacent general talent acquisition only.
  • Plus: Technical recruiting experience in an AI-native or hyperscale engineering org. Depth in Applied AI / AI infra markets is a strong plus.
  • Technical fluency, not general recruiting fluency. You can talk stacks, interview loops, and eng org shapes without bluffing. That knowledge compounds into speed and trust here.
  • Operator or player first. You do not wait for a lane to be defined, you build it. You have carried a desk and a pipeline yourself.
  • High-impact outlier. You look for leverage everywhere and you are not precious about title or scope.
  • Amazing human above all. Rox is a small team doing a lot, and how you treat people matters as much as what you ship.
  • Comfort across the full stack of modern recruiting tools: Ashby, Slack, Notion, and AI-native workflows built in Claude.
  • A track record of ownership, speed, craftsmanship, and learning velocity, the same bar we hold every candidate to at Rox.
  • Real pull toward Rox specifically. Between two similarly qualified candidates, the one who wants to be here, who has done the homework on the product and the mission, wins. Passion for what we're building is a genuine tiebreaker in this process.


Our Stack

Ashby, Slack, Notion, and a unique set of proprietary ai-native tools. (shhh)

Compensation

Base salary range: $180,000 - $250,000 USD.

Total compensation includes benefits, stock options, and perks.

A Note on How We Hire

At Rox, we evaluate for ownership, client obsession, craftsmanship, speed, pivot ability, collaboration, cross-functional impact, systems thinking, and learning velocity. We expect this role, more than any other, to embody that bar.

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