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title: 'Recruiting Ops Associate at Sieve'
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# Recruiting Ops Associate at Sieve

- **Company:** Sieve
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-29
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sieve/9b48faf3-e8f6-4404-9511-79fbea757a18

## Job description

## About Us

Sieve is a multi-modal lab curating the world’s highest-quality training datasets, spanning video, audio, images, text, and 3D. We combine exabyte-scale data infrastructure and novel multimodal understanding techniques that push the frontier of foundation models. Video alone makes up 80% of internet traffic, and across modalities, data has become the enabling medium powering creativity, communication, gaming, AR/VR, and robotics. Sieve exists to solve the biggest bottleneck in the growth of these applications: high-quality training data.

We partner with top AI labs and did $XXM last quarter alone, as a team of ~40 people. We also raised our Series A from Tier 1 firms such as [Matrix Partners](https://matrix.vc/), [Swift Ventures](https://www.swift.vc/), [Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/), and [AI Grant](https://aigrant.com/).

## Why Now

Sieve is scaling the team quickly to keep up with demand from the world’s leading AI labs. Every hire we make shapes the company. You’ll join early, own the systems that make hiring and in-office life run smoothly, and see your work directly affect who joins Sieve and how they experience it.

## About the Role

As our Recruiting Coordinator & Office Manager, you’ll run the operational engine behind hiring and keep our San Francisco office running well. Work closely with our Talent Team and Events & Community to give stellar experiences to our candidates and current team members! You’ll own interview logistics, ATS hygiene, and the candidate experience from first touch to first day. You’ll also make sure the office is a place where the team can do their best work.

You’re highly organized, have strong communication skills, and you care about how people feel when they interact with Sieve, whether that’s a candidate or a teammate. You bring structure to busy, shifting calendars, you catch details before they become problems, and you’re happy to do hands-on work.

## What You'll Do

Recruiting Operations & Coordination

- Own interview scheduling from technical rounds through to onsites, coordinating across interviewer calendars and time zones
- Deliver a thoughtful, responsive candidate experience. Prepare candidates for each stage, host onsites, and help ensure timely follow-ups.
- Keep Ashby clean and accurate (stages, feedback, notes) so pipeline data is something the team can trust
- Support the hiring team with sourcing and pipeline reporting as needed
- Coordinate pre-boarding, then run onboarding: equipment, accounts, first-day logistics, and a great first week

Office Management

- Keep the office organized, stocked, and welcoming by ordering supplies and snacks, restocking shared spaces, coordinating deliveries, and handling day-to-day office needs
- Manage vendor relationships and office services, including facilities, maintenance, cleaning, and building management
- Work closely with our Events & Community lead to support operational tasks for office events
- Provide scheduling and logistics support to leadership as needed

Across the business

- Spot what’s slowing things down and fix it, so processes get simpler and more reliable
- Step in wherever needed to take on new priorities and close gaps

## Requirements

- 1–3+ years in coordination, operations, or a similar people-facing operations role, ideally at a fast-growing startup
- Strong execution skills: organized, dependable, and detail-oriented
- Clear, written and verbal communication with candidates, teammates, and vendors
- Comfort with ambiguity and shifting priorities, and the ability to keep many threads moving at once
- Sound judgment and discretion with confidential information
- A collaborative, low-ego attitude and a willingness to do hands-on work

Nice to Haves

- Experience with an ATS (Ashby a plus) and comfort with calendar-heavy scheduling

## Benefits

- 401k + Full Health Insurance
- Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner covered and your choice of snacks
- Ubers covered home

**All roles at Sieve require you to be onsite in San Francisco 5 days per week.

## About Sieve

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Sieve is an AI research lab and platform focused on building high-quality multimodal data (video, audio, image, and interaction data) and infrastructure for training frontier AI models.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed-stage)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Mokshith Voodarla (CEO) and Abhinav "Abhi" Ayalur (CTO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Artificial Intelligence / Data Infrastructure / Computer Vision
- Target customers: Frontier AI labs, Fortune 100 companies, and fast-growing AI startups working on generative media, robotics, computer use, world models, and agentic systems (primarily B2B Enterprise).
- Mission statement: To build the data and environments that frontier AI labs use to train the next generation of multimodal systems.

## Products & Services
- **Sieve Platform (sievedata.com)**: A development platform to discover, design, and run AI features at scale. It offers pre-built, production-ready apps and models (e.g., `sieve/speech_transcriber` for transcription, `sieve/seamless_text2text` for translation) that can be used via a single API call. The platform provides no-code interfaces, reliable infrastructure, and primitives like queues and async jobs. It is focused on making it easy to combine multiple AI models into complex applications (e.g., video dubbing, translation). [docs.sievedata.com]
- **Sieve Data Lab (sieve.ai)**: A multimodal data lab offering high-quality video, audio, image, and interaction datasets for frontier AI. Services include custom data collection, indexing billions of data points, filtering for semantics and rights, adding dense annotations (transcripts, object labels, UI events), and secure delivery with end-to-end encryption and SOC 2 Type 2 compliance. [sieve.ai]
- **Video AI API (Beta)**: A recently launched API that allows developers to use Sieve's pre-built AI apps and models for video processing in a single call. [sievedata.com]

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Raised approximately **$4M** in a seed round in 2022. [ycombinator.com, sievedata.com]
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (Winter 2022 batch, with Diana Hu as Primary Partner), AI Grant (Nat Friedman & Daniel Gross). [ycombinator.com, sieve.ai/about]
- **Growth Signals**: The company has evolved from a general AI platform to a specialized research lab focusing on the critical bottleneck of training data for multimodal AI. It has attracted the trust of "frontier AI labs, Fortune 100 companies, and fast-growing AI startups." The team size is listed as 18 on Y Combinator (2022) and they are actively hiring for multiple engineering roles through the end of 2026, indicating scaling. [ycombinator.com, jobs.ashbyhq.com]

## Competitive Advantages
- **Focus on Data as a Moat**: Sieve is explicitly structured as a "research lab exclusively focused on video data," identifying that high-quality training data is the primary bottleneck for the next generation of AI (video, audio, robotics, agentic systems). [ycombinator.com]
- **End-to-End Data Service**: They provide a complete pipeline from custom collection and indexing to dense annotation and secure delivery, unlike many competitors who only offer one piece.
- **Deep Research Partnerships**: The team works directly with leading AI researchers to understand model bottlenecks and design high-signal datasets, creating a tight feedback loop between research needs and data production.
- **Strong Founder-Market Fit**: Founders Mokshith Voodarla (Scale AI, NVIDIA) and Abhinav Ayalur (NVIDIA, Niantic) have direct experience in building computer-vision systems and experiencing the data difficulties first-hand.

## Strategic Focus
- **Deliver Training Data for Frontier AI**: Sieve’s current priority is to scale its exabyte-scale infrastructure and novel multimodal understanding techniques to create datasets for video, audio, images, software, robotics, and interactive worlds. [sieve.ai/about]
- **Enable Complex AI Use Cases**: The platform side focuses on making it easy for developers to combine multiple models to build production-ready AI features (like translation, dubbing) quickly.
- **Data Security and Compliance**: Emphasizing secure, compliant data delivery with SOC 2 controls is a key priority for servicing Fortune 100 companies.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: The company describes itself as "tight-knit, fast-moving, and deeply customer-oriented." It is a "research lab to the core," combining frontier research with infrastructure and customer partnership. [sieve.ai/about]
- **Team**: The team brings together experience from NVIDIA, Scale AI, Zoox, and Niantic, providing exposure to top-tier expertise in AI and infrastructure. [sieve.ai/about]
- **Impact**: Employees will be working on the critical layer of data for the next generation of AI models (generative media, robotics, agents), offering a rare position at the forefront of AI research. [ycombinator.com]
- **Remote/Hybrid/Office**: The company is based in San Francisco, CA.
- **Open Roles**: As of mid-2026, they are actively hiring for **Applied Research Engineer**, **Distributed Systems Engineer**, **Product Engineer**, and **Software Engineer**, with salary ranges listed as $150K - $300K depending on role and experience. [jobs.ashbyhq.com, ycombinator.com]

## Sources
1. [docs.sievedata.com](https://docs.sievedata.com/guide/intro)
2. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sieve)
3. [sieve.ai](https://www.sieve.ai/)
4. [sieve.ai/about](https://www.sieve.ai/about)
5. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sieve)

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