--- title: 'Technical Sourcer - Engineering at Together AI' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/technical-sourcer-engineering-together-ai-san-francisco-pa1pq0f550v9' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-16' --- # Technical Sourcer - Engineering at Together AI - **Company:** Together AI - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Posted:** 2026-10-16 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-16 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/togetherai/jobs/5262787007 ## Job description ## About the Role This is not a traditional sourcing role. We're looking for someone who was an engineer first and wants to put that technical depth to work finding and winning the best engineers in the market. You will own proactive outbound sourcing only the top 1% technical talent in the Bay Area and our other hubs identifying them, reaching them, and judging their work on its merits before anyone else does. You'll build and run outreach campaigns, keep pipelines full for specific engineering roles, and bring a steady, systematic hustle to it. What sets this role apart is that you can evaluate technical talent. You can read a GitHub profile and see the signal in it. You can run a genuinely technical first call, get into the nuts and bolts of what someone built and their level of ownership, and tell the difference between top-tier and the rest after a single conversation. You'll report directly to the hiring manager on a tight-knit team of six, with visibility and room to grow into ownership of how we source and evaluate engineering talent. We'll teach you the recruiting craft - the technical judgment is what you bring. ## Responsibilities - Build and maintain pipelines of top-1% engineering talent for specific open roles - Design and run proactive outreach campaigns to elite engineers - persistent, high-volume, and well-written - Review GitHub profiles and other technical signals to identify genuinely strong candidates - Run technical first calls that go deep on what a candidate actually built - Screen for real quality, filtering aggressively so that only the best talent reaches the hiring team - Partner closely with the hiring manager and recruiter to calibrate on what "great" looks like for each role - Help shape Together AI's approach to technical sourcing as the function grows ## Requirements - A hands-on engineering background - you've worked as an engineer of some kind. A CS degree is a strong plus. - The ability to read a GitHub profile and glean real signal about someone's depth and quality - Enough current technical fluency to run a deep, credible first call with a strong engineer - Persistence, hustle, and resilience - you're energized by outbound and unfazed by rejection - Strong written communication that gets busy engineers to reply - Based in San Francisco - Recruiting or sourcing experience is a bonus, not a requirement - we'll teach you that part. ## 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 competitive benefits. The US base salary range for this full-time position is: $125,000 - $190,000K + equity + benefits + incentive bonus. 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 athttps://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. 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