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# Senior Technical Recruiter, AI/ML Research at Together AI

- **Company:** Together AI
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Posted:** 2026-05-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-16
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/togetherai/jobs/5135941007

## Job description

## About the Role

Together AI is building the AI Native Cloud — an end-to-end platform for generative AI lifecycle, integrating fast, reliable inference, and model-shaping services with cutting-edge AI cloud infrastructure. We are looking for a seasoned Senior Technical Recruiter to partner closely with AI Research and Engineering leadership to scale world-class research teams across kernels, inference optimization, applied AI and model shaping.

This role is ideal for someone who understands the unique dynamics of recruiting top-tier AI researchers and research engineers in a highly competitive market and can operate as a strategic talent partner to technical leadership.

## Responsibilities

- Partner with executives, research leadership, and hiring managers to define and execute hiring strategies

- Lead full-cycle recruiting for specialized AI talent, including researchers, research engineers, applied scientists, and ML systems engineers

- Build and nurture relationships with top AI talent across academia, open-source communities, research labs, and industry networks

- Drive exceptional candidate experiences from initial engagement through offer close, with a strong focus on relationship building and long-term talent cultivation

- Provide market intelligence on AI talent trends, compensation, competitive hiring landscapes, and emerging research organizations to influence hiring strategy and organizational planning

- Collaborate cross-functionally with sourcing, coordination, people operations, and leadership teams to continuously improve recruiting processes and operational excellence

- Design and refine interview processes tailored for research hiring, including technical evaluations, publication reviews, and research presentation loops

## Requirements

- 5+ years of technical recruiting experience at high-growth technology companies, with a proven track record hiring exceptional AI researchers, research engineers, applied scientists, or ML infrastructure talent at leading AI labs, hyper-scale startups, or frontier technology companies

- Experience recruiting from both industry and academic pipelines, including familiarity with publications, conferences, open-source contributions, and research communities

- Ability to build trusted partnerships with senior technical leaders and influence hiring decisions through data and market expertise

- Resourceful, adaptable, and creative in solving recruiting challenges, with comfort operating in fast-paced, ambiguous, high-growth environments with rapidly evolving priorities and hiring needs

- Demonstrated ability to design recruiting processes and talent strategies from the ground up for emerging technical organizations

- Strong execution mindset with the ability to navigate complex searches and close highly competitive candidates in constrained talent markets

## About Together AI

Together AI, the AI Native Cloud, is purpose-built for AI engineers. AI application developers get high-performance inference that scales reliably, fine-tuning and reinforcement learning for creating frontier-level specialized models, and pre-training at massive scale for fully custom intelligence, all around a marketplace of leading open models that teams can run, adapt, and own. Trusted by Cursor, Decagon, ElevenLabs, Salesforce, and Zoom, Together serves 400+ trillion tokens a month.

## Compensation

We offer competitive compensation, startup equity, health insurance, and other benefits, as well as flexibility in terms of remote work. The US base salary range for this full-time position is: $165,000 - $210,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by location, level and role. Individual compensation will be determined by experience, skills, and job-related knowledge.

## Equal Opportunity

Together AI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more.

Please see our Privacy Policy at https://www.together.ai/privacy

## About Together AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Together AI is the AI Native Cloud, a full-stack platform for production AI that provides inference, fine-tuning, and GPU compute powered by cutting-edge systems research.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Vipul Ved Prakash (CEO), Ce Zhang (CTO), Tri Dao (Chief Scientist), Chris Ré, Percy Liang

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI Infrastructure / Cloud Computing
- **Target customers**: B2B – AI-native startups (e.g., Cursor, Decagon, Eleven Labs), enterprise SaaS (Salesforce, Zoom, Zomato), and AI researchers.
- **Mission**: “Significantly lower the cost of modern AI systems by co-designing software, hardware, algorithms, and models” — with a commitment to open and transparent AI development.

## Products & Services
- **Serverless Inference**: Fast on-demand inference for open-source models with no infrastructure management.
- **Batch Inference**: Asynchronous processing of massive workloads (up to 30B tokens per model) at reduced cost.
- **Dedicated Model Inference**: Deploy models on dedicated GPU infrastructure for speed and control.
- **Dedicated Container Inference**: GPU infrastructure optimized for generative media (video, audio, image).
- **Fine-Tuning**: Fine-tune open-source models using latest research techniques (improves accuracy, reduces hallucinations).
- **Accelerated Compute**: Self-serve instant clusters to thousands of GPUs, optimized with Together Kernel Collection.
- **Model Shaping**: Tools to accelerate inference, model shaping, and pre-training.
- **Managed Storage**: High-performance object storage and parallel filesystems with zero egress fees.
- **Sandbox**: Fast, secure code sandboxes for AI app/agent development environments.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed; recent Series C reportedly doubled valuation (amount undisclosed) [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/together-4)
- **Key Metric**: **Total Funding** – $1.334B (including $800M Series C announced in mid-2026) [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/together-4)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Kleiner Perkins, NVIDIA, Salesforce Ventures, Prosperity7 Ventures (Aramco), and 29+ others across rounds.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Headcount grew 91% YoY to ~280 employees [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/togethercomputer)
  - Acquired CodeSandbox (Dec 2024) and Refuel.AI (May 2025)
  - Customers include Cursor, Decagon, Eleven Labs, AI21, Hedra, Cartesia, Salesforce, Zoom, Zomato
  - Published nine papers at ICML 2026; open-sourced ParallelKernelBench

## Competitive Advantages
- **Full-stack AI platform** covering inference, fine-tuning, compute, storage, and sandboxes — all integrated.
- **World-class research team** co-designing algorithms, kernels, and hardware (e.g., Tri Dao, co-inventor of FlashAttention).
- **Open-source commitment** and contributions (models, datasets, research) build developer trust and ecosystem lock-in.
- **Cost performance**: Claims 2x faster inference and 60% lower cost vs. alternatives through research-driven optimizations.

## Strategic Focus
- Accelerate the shift to open-source AI by making it economically viable at scale.
- Continue investing in systems research (GPU programming, kernel optimization, model shaping) to improve performance and cost.
- Expand enterprise adoption through dedicated deployments and partnerships.
- Grow the platform’s capabilities (e.g., managed storage, sandboxes) to reduce friction for AI-native builders.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values include “Do more with less,” “Open and responsible development,” “Empower innovation,” and “Optimizers” — a research-driven, mission-oriented environment.
- **Remote/Hybrid/Office**: Primarily office-based in San Francisco (251 Rhode Island Street) with employees across 16 countries. Office perks include lunch, dinner, snacks, parking/transit stipends, and relocation support.
- **Benefits**: Competitive salary and equity, 401K matching, health/dental/vision insurance, flexible PTO, generous parental leave, life and disability protection.
- **Engineering Culture**: Deep focus on systems research and open-source; engineers work alongside leading AI researchers (e.g., Tri Dao, Ce Zhang). Talent sourced from Apple, Google, Amazon, NVIDIA, Stanford AI Lab.
- **Career Growth**: 53 active job postings (as of mid-2026); roles span ML engineering, platform engineering, research, and go-to-market. High growth trajectory offers rapid advancement.

## Sources
1. [together.ai/about-us](https://www.together.ai/about-us)
2. [together.ai/](https://www.together.ai/)
3. [together.ai/careers](https://www.together.ai/careers)
4. [linkedin.com/company/togethercomputer](https://www.linkedin.com/company/togethercomputer)
5. [cbinsights.com/company/together-4](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/together-4)

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