Senior Talent Acquisition; Techncial @ Frontier AI Lab

Senior Talent Acquisition (Technical) @ Frontier AI Lab | Upto £100k base plus Bonus - London (Onsite)

Location:

London (South East England, United Kingdom)

Company: JR UK

Client/

Employer:

This is Growth

Salary:
Upto £100k base plus bonus

Posted: 23.05.2026

Full‑lifecycle recruiting across ML research, robotics, applied ML, infrastructure, and systems engineering. You'll partner directly with founders and research leads to define requirements, calibrate the technical bar, and close exceptional people.

This includes sourcing from papers, conference output (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, RSS, CoRL, CVPR), Git Hub, lab alumni networks, and open‑source communities—not just running Boolean searches. You’ll build outreach strategies, employer brand, and structured hiring processes that enable a 50‑person company to compete with labs 10x its size.

• 6+ years of in‑house technical recruiting at a high‑growth AI, deep‑tech, or research‑heavy company.
• Track record of filling research scientists, ML engineers, robotics engineers, and senior infrastructure/systems roles end‑to‑end.
• Deep technical sourcing expertise—you can describe your methodology, not just your tools.
• Built recruiting processes (scorecards, rubrics, interview loops, pipeline reporting), not just operated within them.
• Use AI tools daily in your recruiting workflow and can show how they've changed your work. Strong closing instincts against competing offers from frontier labs and FAANG/MANGO.
• Technically curious; can read a paper or repo well enough to identify the right candidates and have a credible conversation.

• First or early in‑house recruiter at a startup—built from scratch.
• Background at a frontier AI lab, robotics company, or research org.
• Familiarity with Ashby.
• Existing network among ML, RL, robotics, or systems researchers.
• Experience hiring VP/C‑suite for non‑engineering functions.

This is a hands‑on IC role. If you’ve been managing and want to return to the craft at a company where every hire matters, we’d like to talk.