Technical Recruiter

Own hiring across Science, Engineering and Data Science — three distinct talent markets with three distinct assessment bars. You'll manage these end-to-end while competing directly with the best-funded labs in the world for the same people.

What you'll do

• Source scarce ML research, infrastructure, and forward-deployed talent globally, exploring mainstream and niche talent pools
• Position Prior Labs compellingly against other foundation model labs such as OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, and Mistral and against the enterprise AI companies competing for FDE talent
• Navigate multi-hub hiring across Freiburg, Berlin, and New York (visas, comp bands, notice periods)
• Screen technical depth quickly across research, engineering, and customer-facing profiles without burning researcher or founder time
• Run efficient, structured interview loops with clear rubrics and fast debriefs, calibrated separately for research, engineering, and FDE archetypes
• Manage, negotiate and close offers, including against competing frontier-lab packages
• Manage the pipeline operationally in the ATS with clean stages and weekly metrics

What you'll need

• 5+ years in-house technical recruiting at a deep-tech, AI/ML, or research-led startup (Series A and beyond), or in a frontier lab's talent team
• Track record closing ML researchers or research engineers against top tier frontier labs (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, Mistral)
• Experience hiring at least one customer-facing engineering profile (forward deployed, solutions, or applied engineering)
• Hands-on hiring across at least two of: Germany, wider EU, and the US (NYC)
• Fluency in the ML talent landscape: top labs, conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AutoML), and what distinguishes a strong research vs. engineering vs. infrastructure profile
• Modern ATS architecture (Ashby or equivalent): stage design, rejection taxonomy, funnel reporting

What they offer

• Work alongside researchers and builders at a very high bar in quality and collaboration
• Fast-moving environment with presence in Berlin, Freiburg, and New York
• Regular company offsites to build and celebrate together