About Us
Our mission is to raise AGI with the richness of human intelligence: curious, witty, imaginative, and full of unexpected brilliance.
Surge was founded by engineers and researchers who dreamed of building the next generation of AI. Our platform powers the most capable models in the world, in partnership with the AI models you use every day. We’ve run a profitable business from day one without raising venture funding.
The Role
Frontier models get better when real experts work on them. Those experts have full careers, and they’ve never heard of us.
You’ll recruit for our global, distributed workforce of independent contractors, not for corporate roles. These are experts working on projects that shape how frontier models think. A lot of them don’t work in AI. Some are curious, some are wary, and some think it’s coming for their field. You need to get a reply, then keep them interested through the assessment and onboarding.
The standard playbook won’t get you far. InMail sequences and job boards reach people who are already looking, and most of the experts we need aren’t. You’ll have to work out where they are and what gets a reply.
We don’t count sign-ups. We count experts who finish, pass, and do great work.
We’re hiring a recruiter to own this. You’ll do the work yourself, and, eventually, you’ll build the team around it.
Find people other recruiters can’t. Try new channels, formats, and messages. Drop what doesn’t work.
Get experts interested who don’t care about AI, and convince the skeptics. Say what the work is, what it isn’t, and why it matters.
Talk to experts like experts. Short calls, straight answers, within confidentiality limits.
Keep them going after the yes. Work out what gets people through the assessment and into the work.
When a search works, make it repeatable: a channel, a referral loop, a small project team.
Look at which sources produce great work, not just sign-ups, and spend your time there.
Write down what works, teach it, and bring on more recruiters as we grow.
What We’re Looking For
You’ve found people in pools nobody else could crack, more than once, and not with the standard playbook. Tell us what you tried and what flopped.
When volume grows, you change how the work gets done instead of adding people.
You’ve won over people who had no reason to care, or who were skeptical. You can be honest and still persuasive.
You can talk to a domain expert as a peer and explain why their work matters to the frontier of AI without hype.
You can read a funnel and tell what’s working.
You write well. Experts notice.
You care whether the people you bring in are actually good.
You tell us when our target profile is wrong, and show us why.
Skills Required
- Demonstrated success finding candidates in difficult-to-reach talent pools multiple times
- Ability to improve recruiting processes as volume grows rather than simply adding staff
- Ability to persuade skeptical candidates while communicating honestly
- Ability to communicate with domain experts as a peer and explain the relevance of their work to AI
- Ability to analyze recruiting funnel performance and identify effective sources
- Strong writing skills
- Commitment to evaluating and recruiting high-quality talent
- Ability to challenge inaccurate target profiles using evidence
What We Do
Surge AI is an artificial intelligence company focused on providing high-skill data-labeling services and technology for AI development. It combines a data-labeling platform with a specialized workforce supporting natural-language processing, code generation, search evaluation, adversarial training, and related machine-learning applications. The company’s broader mission is to help raise artificial general intelligence with the richness, curiosity, and creativity of human intelligence.
