CareerPlanSign in

Forward Deployed Recruiter - SWE

San Francisco💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-15 → 2026-09-26

Core

Forward Deployed Recruiter embedded within high-stakes client organizations (AI labs, frontier models, robotics) to identify, assess, and hire top-percentile talent in mission-critical environments.

Role type

Senior Forward Deployed Recruiter (SWE)

Builds

Effective hiring foundations, talent acquisition systems, and hiring-health data pipelines for clients.

Domain

Technology recruitment for AI, deep tech, and robotics

Deliverable

client delivery

Required skills

Headhunting, network leverage, hiring complexity resolution, system building, data-driven insights, AI tool adoption, emotional intelligence, high agency

Preferred skills

Experience hiring for AI labs, deep tech, or trading houses, thriving in ambiguity, curiosity

Technologies

Proprietary recruiting stack, AI tools

Responsibilities

Find and engage exceptional talent through headhunting and networking; resolve hiring complexity in nascent environments; stand-up systems to improve hiring speed and precision; generate hiring-health data; build talent foundations with just enough process and workflows.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

Sourced via ashby · Listed on CareerPlan, which tracks 70,000+ jobs from 20+ sources.