AI Technical Recruiter, Perplexity
$165-200k
+ Equity
Conversational AI-powered search tool
Posted today
Conversational AI-powered search tool
1001+ employees
Posted today
$165-200k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To advance the way people discover and share information.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate will have a proven track record as a full-cycle technical recruiter in high-growth environments
- Success in this role requires strong stakeholder management skills, creative AI-augmented sourcing strategies, and the ability to deliver high-quality hires in a fast-paced startup setting
- 5+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience
- Experience working at a high-growth startup
- Proven track record of successfully placing top-tier technical talent
- Hands-on experience using AI tools to enhance sourcing, screening, or candidate engagement
- Fluency with varied Applicant Tracking Systems (Ashby preferred)
- Strong analytical and data-driven decision-making skills
- Proactive, flexible, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment
What the job involves
- We are seeking an experienced Technical Recruiter to partner closely with engineering leadership and drive a best-in-class hiring experience
- Beyond the expected; this role requires both a superior level of operational wizardry; and a mastery of storytelling, steeped in a comprehensive understanding of the AI market and technology landscape
- You won't just keep pace with how AI is reshaping recruiting, you'll be the one putting those tools to work, using them to find signals others miss and to move faster than the market
- Develop and execute innovative sourcing strategies, leveraging AI tools to surface, engage, and attract top technical talent at scale
- Use AI to sharpen every stage of the funnel, from drafting compelling outreach to mapping talent pools and identifying non-obvious candidates
- Manage the candidate experience throughout the recruitment process, providing timely feedback and updates
- Build strong partnerships with hiring managers to understand technical requirements and team dynamics
- Negotiate job offers and close candidates
- Analyze recruiting metrics and refine processes, using AI to turn data into faster, smarter hiring decisions
- Stay ahead of industry trends, emerging AI recruiting tools, and best practices in technical recruiting
Our take
As AI continues to drive changes in both business operations and day-to-day lives, Perplexity delivers an intelligent search engine powered by conversational AI, to improve search outcomes and "unlock the power of knowledge" for all.
Reaching impressive heights of 22M monthly visits, Perplexity's "ask anything" method of search is clearly a popular one. And what sets it apart from other search engines is in its answers, which are concise and fully cited, responding to the user query rather than simply providing a place in which they can scroll to find it themselves.
The company has raised substantial funding, with contributions from former execs at companies like OpenAI, Meta, and Quora, demonstrating the interest that it has drummed up in the space. Having doubled its annual recurring revenue between 2023 and 24, this investment has allowed Perplexity to continue building out its product, and accelerate growth into the future.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Sep 2025
$200m
LATE VC
Jul 2025
$100m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.8bn
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Aravind Srinivas
(Co-Founder, President & CEO)Former Research Scientist at OpenAI, who has interned in Research at Google and Deep Mind. Obtained a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
Denis Yarats
(Co-Founder & CTO)Prior to co-founding Perplexity in 2022, Denis was an AI Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research, a Staff ML Engineer at Quora, and a Software Development Engineer at Microsoft.
Johnny Ho
(Co-Founder & CSO)Previously a Quantitative Trader at Tower Research Capital, and Engineer at Quora.
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