Principal Technical Sourcer at Latent (San Francisco, CA)

Latent· San Francisco, CA·3d ago

Role details

Work type

Onsite

Employment

Full-Time

Job description

TECHNICAL SOURCER

We’re building a high-caliber technical team in a competitive market. This role owns the top of the funnel—finding, engaging, and building relationships with exceptional engineers before they’re actively looking.

This is not a resume-pushing role. It’s about taste, curiosity, and persistence.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Own outbound sourcing for technical roles (primarily software engineers)
Identify high-signal candidates via LinkedIn, GitHub, referrals, and communities
Write thoughtful, personalized outreach that actually gets replies
Partner closely with recruiters and hiring managers to define “great”
Experiment with sourcing strategies, messaging, and channels
Track and improve funnel metrics (reply rate, pass-through, time to first convo)
Build long-term candidate relationships, even when timing isn’t right

YOU MIGHT BE A GOOD FIT IF

You have 1–4+ years of technical sourcing experience (startup experience a plus)
You enjoy the puzzle of finding people others can’t
You care about quality over volume and hate spammy outreach
You’re comfortable with ambiguity and like building from scratch
You operate with urgency and take ownership
Bias to action

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE

Consistent flow of high-quality technical candidates
Strong reply rates driven by thoughtful outreach
Hiring managers trust your judgment and taste

WHY JOIN

Real ownership and visibility
Opportunity to help define the sourcing playbook
Close partnership with recruiters and founders
High impact on a team scaling quickly
Exposure to the strongest Tech Startup Eco-System

Why work at Latent

Culture: High agency, ownership, and independence; engineers own projects from ideation to completion. Values include bias to action, practical innovation, and customer obsession (regularly visiting partner sites).
Remote/Hybrid: Remote-friendly (headquarters in San Francisco; team is distributed).
Notable perks/engineering culture: Fast-moving environment with ambitious product and GTM goals; opportunity to work on one of healthcare’s hardest problems using modern AI/ML; team size ~50 (as of early 2026) – still a growth-stage startup.

About Latent

Company Overview

One-liner: Latent provides an enterprise pharmacy intelligence platform that uses a clinical AI engine to automate medication access workflows—such as prior authorizations and appeals—for health systems.
Entity Type: Private (Series A)
Headquarters: San Francisco, California, United States
Founded: 2022
Founders: Rishabh Jain and Sriram Somasundaram

Core Business

Primary industry/industries: Healthcare IT, AI-powered clinical operations, pharmacy intelligence
Target customers: B2B; large health systems (hospitals and health networks) – currently serving over 45 partners including 50% of the top 20 U.S. health systems.
Mission or purpose statement: “Closing the distance between a therapeutic decision and a patient receiving therapy” by automating the manual knowledge work that sits between a doctor’s order and treatment.

Products & Services

Clinical Reasoning Engine: An AI platform that performs clinical knowledge work—reasoning through patient data, interpreting drug criteria, extracting evidence, and orchestrating workflows across EHR, payers, pharmacies, and patients. Automates prior authorization, payer policy parsing, form auto-filling, and medical necessity checks.
Pharmacy Intelligence Platform: A suite that centralizes pharmacy operations, increases prior-authorization throughput, reduces denials, and helps pharmacists focus on patients instead of paperwork.

Market Standing

Valuation/Market Cap: Not publicly available
Key Metric: Total funding raised – $80.5 million (Series A as of April 2026)
Notable Investors/Partners: Spark Capital, Transformation Capital, McKesson Ventures, Conviction, General Catalyst, Y Combinator
Growth Signals:
- Grew from 4 to more than 45 health system partners in the past year (2025–2026)
- Now serves 2 million patients annually
- Reduces denials by over 30% and enables clinicians to serve twice as many patients
- Customers include Yale New Haven Health, Ochsner Health, MetroHealth, UCI, Vanderbilt Health, Mount Sinai, Henry Ford Health, UCSF Health, UCLA Health

Competitive Advantages

Deep, native integration with any EHR; the engine operates directly within the patient record.
Proprietary clinical agentic engine trained on medical reasoning, payer rules, and drug criteria – a high bar for regulatory and clinical accuracy.
Proven operational impact: 109% more prior-auth throughput per person, 23.4 minutes of every appeal handed back to pharmacists, and $300K+ annual labor cost savings cited by customers.
Already embedded in 50% of the top 20 U.S. health systems, creating a high switching cost.

Strategic Focus

Expand health system footprint and deepen the platform connecting hospitals, payers, pharmacies, and patients.
Continue investing in reliability and trust required for healthcare deployment.
Scale the team and apply the Clinical Reasoning Engine proactively to identify patients who should start therapy and keep them on treatment.
Move beyond prior authorization into every process where clinical knowledge must be translated into action.

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