Technical Sourcer - Engineering

Together AI
San Francisco, CA
On-siteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Strong fit for engineers with a deep technical background who can proactively identify and evaluate top-tier talent, based in San Francisco and working in a close-knit team with direct reporting lines.

Best fit for

  • Engineers with a track record of evaluating technical talent and building outreach pipelines
    — “You can evaluate technical talent. You can read a GitHub profile and see the signal in it.”
  • Candidates with a passion for technical depth and a systematic approach to sourcing
    — “You'll build and maintain pipelines of top-1% engineering talent for specific open roles.”
  • Individuals who thrive in tight-knit teams and have direct reporting relationships
    — “You'll report directly to the hiring manager on a tight-knit team of six.”

Things to consider

  • The role requires a strong presence in San Francisco despite being unspecified for remote work
    — “Based in San Francisco”
  • The position demands high persistence and resilience in the face of rejection
    — “Persistence, hustle, and resilience - you're energized by outbound and unfazed by rejection”

How to stand out

  • Demonstrate your ability to analyze GitHub profiles and extract meaningful technical signals
    — “Review GitHub profiles and other technical signals to identify genuinely strong candidates”
  • Showcase experience with high-volume, well-written outreach campaigns
    — “Design and run proactive outreach campaigns to elite engineers - persistent, high-volume, and well-written”
  • Highlight your capacity to conduct deep technical first calls with engineers
    — “Run technical first calls that go deep on what a candidate actually built”
  • Emphasize your ability to work independently and shape sourcing strategies
    — “Help shape Together AI's approach to technical sourcing as the function grows”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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

What success looks like

  • build and maintain pipelines of top-1% engineering talent
  • design and run proactive outreach campaigns
  • evaluate technical talent
Typical background
hands-on engineering backgroundCS degree

Skills & requirements

Required

Technical EvaluationOutreach CampaignsGithub Profile AnalysisTechnical First CallsPipeline ManagementTechnical Judgment

Preferred

Recruiting Experience

Stack & domain

GitHubTechnical JudgmentCommunicationPersistenceResilienceEngineeringRecruiting

About the role

Original posting from Together AI via Greenhouse

About the Role

This is not a traditional sourcing role. We're looking for someone who was an engineer first and wants to put that technical depth to work finding and winning the best engineers in the market. You will own proactive outbound sourcing only the top 1% technical talent in the Bay Area and our other hubs identifying them, reaching them, and judging their work on its merits before anyone else does.

You'll build and run outreach campaigns, keep pipelines full for specific engineering roles, and bring a steady, systematic hustle to it. What sets this role apart is that you can evaluate technical talent. You can read a GitHub profile and see the signal in it. You can run a genuinely technical first call, get into the nuts and bolts of what someone built and their level of ownership, and tell the difference between top-tier and the rest after a single conversation.

You'll report directly to the hiring manager on a tight-knit team of six, with visibility and room to grow into ownership of how we source and evaluate engineering talent. We'll teach you the recruiting craft - the technical judgment is what you bring.

Responsibilities 

Build and maintain pipelines of top-1% engineering talent for specific open roles

Design and run proactive outreach campaigns to elite engineers - persistent, high-volume, and well-written

Review GitHub profiles and other technical signals to identify genuinely strong candidates

Run technical first calls that go deep on what a candidate actually built

Screen for real quality, filtering aggressively so that only the best talent reaches the hiring team

Partner closely with the hiring manager and recruiter to calibrate on what "great" looks like for each role

Help shape Together AI's approach to technical sourcing as the function grows

Requirements 

A hands-on engineering background - you've worked as an engineer of some kind. A CS degree is a strong plus.

The ability to read a GitHub profile and glean real signal about someone's depth and quality

Enough current technical fluency to run a deep, credible first call with a strong engineer

Persistence, hustle, and resilience - you're energized by outbound and unfazed by rejection

Strong written communication that gets busy engineers to reply

Based in San Francisco

Recruiting or sourcing experience is a bonus, not a requirement - we'll teach you that part. 

About Together AI

Together AI, the AI Native Cloud, is purpose-built for AI engineers. AI application developers get high-performance inference that scales reliably, fine-tuning and reinforcement learning for creating frontier-level specialized models, and pre-training at massive scale for fully custom intelligence, all around a marketplace of leading open models that teams can run, adapt, and own. Trusted by Cursor, Decagon, ElevenLabs, Salesforce, and Zoom, Together serves 400+ trillion tokens a month.

Compensation

We offer competitive compensation, startup equity, health insurance and other competitive benefits. The US base salary range for this full-time position is: $125,000 - $190,000K + equity + benefits + incentive bonus. Our salary ranges are determined by location, level and role. Individual compensation will be determined by experience, skills, and job-related knowledge.

Equal Opportunity

Together AI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more.

Please see our privacy policy at https://www.together.ai/privacy. 

Source: Together AI careers (Greenhouse)

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