Elorian AI INC

Elorian AI INC

Founding Technical Recruiter/Head of Talent

Palo Alto Home Office

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 71 days ago
Distributed SystemsMachine LearningBrand StrategyRecruitingResearchLeadershipProcurement

About the role

  • This is a unique opportunity to be the first recruiter at Elorian.
  • As our first dedicated Talent Acquisition hire, you will be the architect of our hiring engine.
  • You will be hunting for some of the rarest and most sought-after talent in the world, people working at top AI labs, premier academic institutions, and elite tech companies.

Responsibilities

  • Process Building: Scale our ATS, interview panels, and candidate evaluation frameworks to ensure an unbiased, efficient, and exceptionally high-bar hiring process.
  • Candidate Experience: Design a world-class candidate experience that reflects our company's culture at every touchpoint. From the first outreach to the closing conversation, ensure every candidate feels valued and respected.
  • Employer Branding: Help establish our identity in the market. Organize events, manage our presence in the AI community, and build a talent pipeline for the future.
  • Impact: Ground-floor opportunity to build the culture and team of a frontier AI lab with direct partnership with leadership on every search.

Requirements

  • Experienced: You have 5+ years of experience in technical recruiting, with a strong track record of hiring for AI, ML, or deep tech roles at a high-growth startup or a major tech company.
  • Have a Strong Network: You have a deep understanding of the AI ecosystem and know how to find and engage talent from top labs (e.g., DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta MSL) and leading universities.
  • You have 5+ years of experience in technical recruiting, with a strong track record of hiring for AI, ML, or deep tech roles at a high-growth startup or a major tech company.
  • You have a deep understanding of the AI ecosystem and know how to find and engage talent from top labs (e.g., DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta MSL) and leading universities.

Compensation

  • Top-of-market compensation package.
  • A Closer: You have a proven ability to close highly sought-after candidates in competitive markets navigate complex compensation packages (salary + early-stage equity), and handling competing offers
  • Competitive Salary: Top-of-market compensation package.

Benefits

  • Meaningful Equity: Significant equity ownership in a fast-growing, well-funded startup with real, substantial upside
  • Health & Wellness: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Flexibility: Flexible PTO and a trusting, output-driven work environment.
  • You have a proven ability to close highly sought-after candidates in competitive markets navigate complex compensation packages (salary + early-stage equity), and handling competing offers
  • You will need to be strategic, deeply embedded in the AI ecosystem, and capable of compellingly articulating our vision to top-tier candidates.
  • Full-Cycle Recruiting: Own the end-to-end recruitment process for technical (Research Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers, Systems Engineers) and with the potential to expand to non-technical roles.

Company info

  • We are a well-funded, early-stage AI lab focused on building the next generation of frontier multimodal AI models. Founded by former DeepMind researchers, including Andrew Dai, who was previously a leader on Gemini. Our team currently consists of 14 world-class scientists and engineers. We recently raised $55M in seed funding from Striker Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Altimeter Capital, and NVIDIA. We are tackling some of the hardest problems in artificial intelligence, and we are growing fast.
  • To achieve our ambitious mission, we need to continue bringing the brightest minds in AI research, distributed systems, and engineering onto our team. That's where you come in. We believe that the best companies require the best people, and we're looking for a founding recruiter who shares that conviction.
  • This is a unique opportunity to be the first recruiter at Elorian. As our first dedicated Talent Acquisition hire, you will be the architect of our hiring engine. You will work directly with the founders to define our talent strategy, build out our recruitment processes from scratch, and scale our team with exceptional individuals.
  • We are a well-funded, early-stage AI lab focused on building the next generation of frontier multimodal AI models.
  • Founded by former DeepMind researchers, including Andrew Dai, who was previously a leader on Gemini.
  • Our team currently consists of 14 world-class scientists and engineers.
  • We recently raised $55M in seed funding from Striker Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Altimeter Capital, and NVIDIA.
  • We are tackling some of the hardest problems in artificial intelligence, and we are growing fast.
  • To achieve our ambitious mission, we need to continue bringing the brightest minds in AI research, distributed systems, and engineering onto our team.
  • That's where you come in.
  • We believe that the best companies require the best people, and we're looking for a founding recruiter who shares that conviction.
  • Act as a strategic advisor to the founders.
  • Help define role requirements, calibrate compensation, and shape the company's organizational structure as we grow.
  • You are genuinely passionate about the future of AI and want to play a pivotal role in building a company that pushes the boundaries of what is possible.

This listing is sourced directly from Elorian AI INC's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.