Founding Recruiter

Ataraxis AI

United States

RemoteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have experience in high-growth startups and technical hiring.

Best fit for

Candidates with experience in early-stage or high-growth startups and technical hiring
— “3+ years of full-cycle recruiting, including in-house at an early-stage or high-growth startup”
Individuals who can rapidly build and optimize hiring processes with minimal oversight
— “Speed and ownership: you move from outreach to signed offer quickly without lowering the bar”
Candidates who have a background in GTM hiring, especially in sales or business development roles
— “A track record of high-volume GTM hiring (e.g. account executives or field sales)”

Things to consider

This role demands a high level of initiative and ownership in a flat structure with no predefined leadership hierarchy
— “Leadership roles are earned by those who demonstrate initiative and consistently deliver exceptional results”

How to stand out

Highlight your ability to build and scale hiring processes from scratch in your resume and interview responses
— “Build the hiring engine, including interview processes, scorecards, candidate experience, and funnel and time-to-fill reporting”
Demonstrate your expertise in using AI-powered recruiting tools and automation to optimize your workflow
— “Fluency with modern recruiting and AI tools; you automate repetitive work wherever you can”
Showcase your experience with high-volume hiring in GTM roles, especially in healthcare or life sciences
— “A track record of high-volume GTM hiring (e.g. account executives or field sales); healthcare, diagnostics or life sciences experience is a plus”

Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Team

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

owning full-cycle recruiting
building deep talent pipelines
managing outside recruiting partners

Typical background

3+ years of full-cycle recruiting experiencetechnical or research hiring experience

Skills & requirements

Required

Full-cycle RecruitingSource CreativelyBuild Hiring EngineManage Recruiting PartnersBias For Action

Preferred

Healthcare Industry KnowledgeAI Tools For Recruiting

Stack & domain

RecruitmentTechnical HiringAI ToolsAutomationLeadershipCommunicationAIHealthcarePrecision Medicine

About the role

Original posting from Ataraxis AI via Ashby

ABOUT ATARAXIS AI
Ataraxis is a clinical AI research lab working at the intersection of multi-modal AI and precision medicine. Our goal is to make disease predictable. To accomplish this, we develop new AI methods that predict patient outcomes and treatment response, and build clinical tools to assist physicians in selecting the most optimal treatments for their patients.
Our AI research lab discovers and develops methods to recognize patterns and predict outcomes across complex, multi-modal clinical data. This spans our causality https://www.ataraxis.ai/research-causality (Ataraxis™ Tau), foundation model https://www.ataraxis.ai/research---representation-learning (Falcon and Kestrel for digital pathology), and survival analysis https://www.ataraxis.ai/research-survival-analysis research.
Our first clinical products, such as Ataraxis™ Breast https://www.ataraxis.ai/ataraxis-breast-overview for breast cancer, already help patients get the most appropriate treatment across the best academic institutions and community clinics worldwide.
At Ataraxis, you will have a unique opportunity to shape not only the future of our company, but also the future of healthcare. You will join an exceptional team at the forefront of clinical AI research and deployment. Our advisors include AI pioneers such as our founding advisor, Yann LeCun, and distinguished oncologists from top cancer research institutions, all united by the mission to redefine precision medicine.
Ataraxis has raised over $24 million in funding, including a $20 million Series A led by top venture capital funds such as Thiel Capital/Founders Fund (OpenAI, SpaceX, Palantir), Obvious Ventures (AMI Labs, Inceptive, Radical Numerics, Recursion), and AIX Ventures (Hugging Face, Perplexity).
We are an company with a flat organizational structure, where every team member is empowered to actively contribute. Leadership roles are earned by those who demonstrate initiative and consistently deliver exceptional results. Strong work ethic and the ability to prioritize ruthlessly are essential.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Own full-cycle recruiting from sourcing through close
Source creatively: competitor mapping, adjacent industries, referrals, and AI-powered tools
Build the hiring engine, including interview processes, scorecards, candidate experience, and funnel and time-to-fill reporting
Manage outside recruiting partners as needed and help shape how the team grows
QUALIFICATIONS
3+ years of full-cycle recruiting, including in-house at an early-stage or high-growth startup
Comfort with technical or research hiring, or a strong desire to learn it
A track record of high-volume GTM hiring (e.g. account executives or field sales); healthcare, diagnostics or life sciences experience is a plus
Fluency with modern recruiting and AI tools; you automate repetitive work wherever you can
Speed and ownership: you move from outreach to signed offer quickly without lowering the bar
Bias for action

Source: Ataraxis AI careers (Ashby)