Technical Recruiter

Who you are

• 4 years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience
• A sourcing-first track record: you fill hard roles through outbound and talent mapping
• Strong technical literacy comfortable, holding credible conversations with senior engineers
• A builder's instinct for AI: eager to adopt new tools, automate your own workflow, and experiment with how AI can make recruiting faster and sharper
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills with candidates, hiring managers, and cross-functional partners
• A mindset that thrives on curiosity, iteration, and impact, aligned with Perplexity's ethos of building what has never been built before

What the job involves

• As a Recruiter, you will be at the forefront of shaping the talent foundation that fuels our growth
• This is not a traditional Recruiting role
• We are looking for a builder with strong technical grounding, a genuine passion for the craft of sourcing, and the ability to operate with creativity and precision in an environment where constant change and ambiguity is the norm
• You will partner closely with hiring managers, and engineers to identify, engage, and inspire world-class talent, helping build a team capable of solving some of the most challenging problems in AI today
• Just as importantly, you will use AI to automate and augment your own workflow, treating sourcing as a system to be engineered rather than a set of manual tasks
• Full-cycle recruitment for engineering and research roles across EMEA Search, AI and Infrastructure
• Build outbound first pipelines: advanced research, talent mapping across frontier labs and academia, referrals, AI-assisted automation, and creative outreach
• Partner with hiring managers and engineers to calibrate profiles with accuracy and nuance, and to sharpen the bar as our teams evolve
• Act as a candidate's first introduction to Perplexity, telling an authentic and compelling story about our mission, product, and culture
• Track and analyze pipeline data to continuously improve sourcing strategy, and build your own tooling where off-the-shelf falls short
• Operate with agility as priorities shift hard-to-fill roles, new pillars, and compressed timelines are the norm