Apply for the Senior AI Talent Sourcer
We're looking for an experienced Senior AI Talent Sourcer to join Kake's internal team and help build exceptional talent pipelines across AI and engineering domains.
In this role, you'll partner closely with recruiters and hiring stakeholders to identify, engage, and attract highly specialized talent, including AI trainers, evaluators, machine learning engineers, research engineers, AI researchers, domain experts, and other specialists contributing to cutting-edge AI initiatives.
If you thrive in complex talent markets, enjoy uncovering hard-to-find candidates, and excel at proactive sourcing strategies, we'd love to hear from you.
What You'll Do
In this role, you'll partner closely with recruiters and hiring stakeholders to identify, engage, and attract highly specialized talent, including AI trainers, evaluators, machine learning engineers, research engineers, AI researchers, domain experts, and other specialists contributing to cutting-edge AI initiatives.
If you thrive in complex talent markets, enjoy uncovering hard-to-find candidates, and excel at proactive sourcing strategies, we'd love to hear from you.
What You'll Do
- Partner with recruiters and hiring stakeholders to understand hiring needs and define sourcing strategies.
- Own end-to-end sourcing for AI and technical roles, building and maintaining high-quality talent pipelines.
- Identify, engage, and nurture specialized talent including AI trainers, evaluators, machine learning engineers, research engineers, AI researchers, domain experts, and other specialists contributing to AI model development and evaluation.
- Leverage a wide range of sourcing channels, including professional networks, technical communities, open-source ecosystems, research platforms, and emerging AI talent networks.
- Conduct initial candidate assessments and provide insights on talent availability and candidate fit.
- Maintain accurate candidate data and sourcing activity within the ATS.
- Contribute to the development of scalable sourcing processes and best practices.
Core Requirements
- 5+ years of experience sourcing AI, machine learning, LLM, research engineering, or related technical talent, with demonstrated success engaging highly specialized candidates in competitive markets.
- Experience sourcing for AI training, model evaluation, generative AI, or other AI-focused programs.
- Strong track record of building talent pipelines through proactive sourcing strategies.
- Demonstrated ability to identify and engage talent through non-traditional sourcing channels.
- Expertise in Boolean search, LinkedIn Recruiter, talent mapping, and sourcing research techniques.
- Ability to assess and differentiate technical backgrounds across software engineering, machine learning, AI research, data science, and related disciplines.
- Experience sourcing talent globally across multiple geographies, time zones, and talent markets.
- Strong communication, organizational, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to work independently in a remote, fast-paced environment.
Other Traits
- Naturally curious and investigative, with a passion for uncovering hard-to-find talent.
- Proactive, resourceful, and comfortable working independently.
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and evolving priorities.
- Strong collaborator who builds effective partnerships with recruiters and stakeholders.
- Continuously seeks to improve sourcing strategies, processes, and results.
Additional
- US Timezone Overlap: 6h–7h daily CST
Please Note: Due to the high volume of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.