Founding Recruiter

About Cartesia
Our mission is to build the next generation of AI: ubiquitous, interactive intelligence that runs wherever you are. Today, not even the best models can continuously process and reason over a year-long stream of audio, video and text—1B text tokens, 10B audio tokens and 1T video tokens—let alone do this on-device.

We're pioneering the model architectures that will make this possible. Our founding team met as PhDs at the Stanford AI Lab, where they invented State Space Models or SSMs, a new primitive for training efficient, large-scale foundation models. Our team combines deep expertise in model innovation and systems engineering paired with a design-minded product engineering team to build and ship cutting edge models and experiences.

We're funded by leading investors like Index, Kleiner Perkins, and Lightspeed  along with Factory, Conviction, A Star, General Catalyst, SV Angel, Databricks and others. We're fortunate to have the support of many amazing advisors, and 90+ angels across many industries, including the world's foremost experts in AI.

Role Responsibilities

As our Founding Recruiter, you'll have the unique opportunity to build and scale our recruiting function from the ground up. You'll work directly with leadership to define and execute our talent strategy, with a primary focus on attracting exceptional research scientists and software engineers who will form the backbone of our technical organization.While technical recruiting will be your main focus, you'll also have the opportunity to support our growth across GTM and other business functions as we scale.

What You'll Do

• Partner with technical and business leadership to deeply understand our hiring needs and craft targeted recruiting strategies, with primary focus on research and engineering roles

• Secure top talent for our growing research engineering, software engineering and GTM teams

• Create and implement full cycle recruiting processes by sourcing, interviewing, and hiring candidates

• Recommend and drive improvements to scale recruiting workflows

• Develop exceptional candidate experience by ensuring smooth, transparent and timely process

• Establish metrics and analytics to measure recruiting effectiveness and continuously improve our processes

• Collaborate with leadership to refine our employer brand and value proposition

What You'll Bring

• 5+ years of technical recruiting experience, with a proven track record of hiring ML/AI researchers and software engineers for highly technical companies

• Strong track record of successfully closing senior technical candidates in competitive markets

• Experience building recruiting processes and programs from scratch

• Excellent relationship building skills with candidates and external hiring managers

• Data-driven approach to recruiting with experience establishing and tracking meaningful metrics

• Strong project management skills and ability to handle multiple searches simultaneously

• Experience partnering with technical leadership and understanding complex technical requirements

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience hiring for GTM and other business functions

• Experience scaling a recruiting function from 0 to 1 at an early stage startup

Our culture

🏢 We’re an in-person team based out of San Francisco. We love being in the office, hanging out together and learning from each other everyday.

🚢 We ship fast. All of our work is novel and cutting edge, and execution speed is paramount. We have a high bar, and we don’t sacrifice quality and design along the way.

🤝 We support each other. We have an open and inclusive culture that’s focused on giving everyone the resources they need to succeed.

Our perks

🍽 Lunch, dinner and snacks at the office.

🏥 Fully covered medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees.

🏦 401(k).

✈️ Relocation and immigration support.

🦖 Your own personal Yoshi.