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Technical Recruiter

Braintrust - San Francisco, CA, USA - In-office - posted 2026-10-22

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Braintrust is an agent observability platform used by teams at Notion, Stripe, Box, OpenAI, and Cloudflare to trace agents, identify issues in observability data, and run evaluations to improve agent performance. You will own full-cycle recruiting for engineering roles, from sourcing through offer acceptance, with a strong focus on quality and candidate experience. This is a hands-on role where you'll partner closely with engineering leaders to define roles, calibrate talent, and make hiring decisions. You'll communicate authentically about what Braintrust is building and why it matters, serving as a trusted guide for candidates throughout the process. Key responsibilities include: - Managing the complete recruiting pipeline for engineering positions - Building and maintaining relationships with hiring partners as a trusted advisor - Developing and executing strategies to improve recruiting processes, interview workflows, employer brand, and candidate experience as the company scales - Building and maintaining a healthy pipeline of top-tier technical talent, including passive candidates across multiple disciplines - Tracking recruiting metrics and using data to identify what's working and where to experiment - Providing actionable feedback to leadership on market dynamics, candidate sentiment, and how the company's story is resonating - Identifying opportunities to streamline recruiting operations without sacrificing quality - Helping candidates understand early-stage product and engineering opportunities, including equity and ownership considerations You'll work in an environment that values product and engineering excellence, where the people you hire set the bar for everything the company does. This role offers real ownership over how Braintrust finds and closes exceptional technical talent. REQUIREMENTS: - 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, ideally at a high-growth or early-stage company - Strong relationship-building skills and ability to operate as a trusted advisor to hiring partners - Demonstrated success helping candidates understand and get excited about early-stage product and engineering teams - Builder mentality with experience starting processes, initiatives, team practices, or projects - Ability to take feedback well, act quickly, and operate with high confidence and low ego - Clear and warm communication skills in writing, on calls, and when explaining complex technical opportunities - Comfort with shifting priorities, ambiguity, and balancing multiple roles while maintaining quality standards

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