--- title: 'Technical Sourcer at LlamaIndex' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/technical-sourcer-llamaindex-san-francisco-0pek21wjm45h' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-10' --- # Technical Sourcer at LlamaIndex - **Company:** LlamaIndex - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Compensation:** $100k–$140k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-08-06 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/llamaindex/156d7573-82dd-4973-87ab-7d5a056650d5 ## Job description Join us and help shape the future of AI by defining the narrative around document understanding. ## About the Role LlamaIndex is looking for a Technical Sourcer to help identify and engage exceptional talent across AI, engineering, research, and product. You will partner closely with recruiters and hiring leaders to understand talent needs, map competitive markets, and build high-quality pipelines. We are looking for someone who is genuinely passionate about sourcing: curious about people, persistent in uncovering great candidates, and thoughtful about creating an excellent candidate experience. ## What You’ll Do - Develop sourcing strategies for technical roles across AI, machine learning, research, software engineering, and related functions - Identify and engage high-caliber passive candidates through LinkedIn Recruiter, Gem, GitHub, research communities, professional networks, and other sourcing channels - Build targeted market maps and talent pipelines for current and anticipated hiring needs - Write thoughtful, personalized outreach that communicates LlamaIndex’s mission and opportunities - Partner with recruiters and hiring managers to define target profiles and refine searches based on market feedback - Assess candidates’ backgrounds, technical relevance, motivations, and potential fit - Track pipeline activity, response rates, conversions, and other sourcing metrics in Gem and the recruiting system - Maintain accurate candidate records and provide clear market insights to the broader recruiting team - Experiment with new tools, search methods, communities, and sourcing channels - Represent LlamaIndex professionally and create a positive candidate experience from the first interaction ## What We’re Looking For - Approximately 3+ years of technical sourcing experience, ideally within an AI company, high-growth technology startup, or similarly technical environment - Experience sourcing software engineers, machine learning engineers, research engineers, applied scientists, or related technical talent - Strong working knowledge of LinkedIn Recruiter, Gem, and other recruiting and sourcing tools - Ability to understand technical profiles and translate hiring requirements into focused sourcing strategies - Excellent written communication and candidate outreach skills - Strong research instincts, attention to detail, organization, and follow-through - Genuine enthusiasm for sourcing and connecting outstanding people with meaningful opportunities - Comfortable working in a fast-moving environment where priorities may evolve - Collaborative, resourceful, and motivated by delivering high-quality talent rather than simply generating volume ## Nice to Have - Familiarity with the generative AI, LLM, agent, developer-tools, or AI infrastructure ecosystem - Experience sourcing candidates from research communities, open-source projects, GitHub, conferences, or academic publications - Experience supporting an early-stage or rapidly scaling startup - Familiarity with talent intelligence, market mapping, and sourcing analytics - Experience developing creative sourcing campaigns or experimenting with AI-assisted recruiting tools Location This role is in-person at our downtown San Francisco office. Having our recruiter on-site matters. You’ll need to understand our culture firsthand, stay close to the teams you’re hiring for, meet candidates who visit the office, and build trust with hiring managers in real time. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. LlamaIndex does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, employees, or any other organization location. LlamaIndex is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes. ## About LlamaIndex ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: LlamaIndex provides an enterprise-grade agentic document processing platform that uses AI to parse, extract, index, and retrieve data from complex, multi-modal documents. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States - **Founded**: 2022 - **Founders**: Jerry Liu (Co-Founder) ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: AI Document Processing, Enterprise Infrastructure, Data Retrieval & RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) - **Target customers**: B2B; Enterprise (Fortune 50), SMB, and developers building production-grade AI workflows. - **Mission or purpose statement**: "Our mission is to automate knowledge work, beginning with the hardest frontier: documents." ## Products & Services - **LlamaParse**: Industry-leading document parser for 50+ unstructured file types (PDFs, Office docs, images, handwritten notes). Supports embedded images, complex layouts, and multi-page tables. Available as a cloud service or for local/on-premise deployment. - **LiteParse**: Open-source, lightweight document parser for local processing. Parses text from PDFs, Office docs, and images without requiring cloud services or LLM tokens. - **Extraction Agents**: LLM-powered, schema-based extraction agents that turn unstructured content into structured data without training. - **Indexing & Retrieval Pipeline**: Enterprise-grade chunking and embedding pipeline for RAG, designed for precision and relevance. - **LlamaAgents**: Enables developers to build reliable, production-ready workflows around documents, covering ingestion, extraction, reasoning, and automation. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed. - **Key Metric**: Total Funding of **$28.5M** across 4 rounds. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Greylock (lead Seed), Norwest (lead Series A), Databricks Ventures, KPMG Ventures, Amazon Web Services (AWS). Backed by world-class investors including Jack Altman (Alt Capital), Lenny Rachitsky, Mathilde Collin, Raquel Urtasun, and Joseph E. Gonzalez. - **Growth Signals**: - 25M+ package downloads per month. - 300k+ LlamaParse users. - 1.5k+ open-source contributors and 20k+ community members. - One of the largest developer communities in GenAI. - Headcount grew **62.3% YoY** (from ~27 to 44 employees). - 1 billion+ documents processed. - Used by the fastest-growing AI companies and the Fortune 50. - Active job postings increased **100% year-over-year** (8 open roles). ## Competitive Advantages - **Massive Developer Community & Open-Source Roots**: With 25M+ monthly downloads and 20k+ community members, LlamaIndex has deep adoption and mindshare among AI developers, creating a strong network effect. - **Agentic Document OCR Leadership**: Positioned as the "world’s best agentic document OCR," combining VLM-powered understanding with natural language workflow building, making it uniquely suited for complex, messy documents. - **Enterprise-Grade Security & Compliance**: HIPAA, GDPR, and SOC2 compliant out-of-the-box, with granular access controls, data encryption, and flexible deployment (cloud or fully in VPC). - **99.9% Uptime SLA**: Infrastructure built for always-on document processing under real production load. - **Dedicated Support & SLAs**: Tailored to mission-critical AI workloads, with fast response times. ## Strategic Focus - **Product Expansion**: Continuing to build out the LlamaAgents platform for end-to-end document workflow automation, moving beyond just parsing and extraction. - **Enterprise Sales**: Hiring dedicated Sales Leaders and Account Executives for Mid-Market and Enterprise segments in North America and EMEA. - **Open-Source Community Growth**: Maintaining a strong open-source presence while building a commercial enterprise product around it. - **Industry Verticals**: Targeting document-heavy industries like Manufacturing, Finance, Insurance, Healthcare, and Risk. ## Why Work Here - **Impactful Mission**: Ground-floor opportunity at the center of the AI revolution, building tools used by millions worldwide to "automate knowledge work." - **Culture**: Values include being goal-oriented, transparent about wins and mistakes, debating fast and committing fully, assuming best intent, and prioritizing the best idea over hierarchy. Described as a "small team driving far-reaching impact." - **Work Policy**: Fully supported hybrid & remote work. Beautiful, easily accessible office in San Francisco. - **Compensation & Benefits**: - Competitive base salary & equity compensation. - Generous equipment allowance. - Flexible PTO to recharge and rest. - Medical, dental, and vision for you & your family. - Daily catered lunches & snacks in the office. - Ongoing professional development opportunities. - **Team & Culture Highlights**: Collaborative team of passionate individuals pushing boundaries. Emphasis on shipping quickly but thoughtfully, with a focus on reliability and scalability. ## Sources 1. [llamaindex.ai](https://www.llamaindex.ai/) 2. [llamaindex.ai/about](https://www.llamaindex.ai/about) 3. [llamaindex.ai/careers](https://www.llamaindex.ai/careers) 4. 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