Technical Recruiter - AI

Experience: 3.00 + years

Salary: INR 900000-1500000 / year (based on experience)

Expected Notice Period: 30 Days

Shift: (GMT+05:30) Asia/Kolkata (IST)

Opportunity Type: Remote

Placement Type: Full Time Permanent position(Payroll and Compliance to be managed by: Uplers)

(*Note: This is a requirement for one of Uplers client - Uplers)

What do you need for this opportunity

Must have skills required:

AI Community Networking, Compensation Benchmarking, Ats proficiency, Full-cycle AI/ML Recruiting, Notice Period & Offer Negotiation

Uplers is Looking for:

We are an early-stage AI startup building foundational infrastructure for the next generation of Startups. As our Technical Recruiter for AI Hiring India, you will own the full-cycle recruitment process for machine learning, AI research, and applied engineering roles across Indias rapidly expanding AI ecosystem.

India is home to one of the worlds largest and fastest-growing pools of AI/ML talent from IIT and IISc researchers to engineers at FAANG India centres and homegrown AI startups. Your role is to tap into this talent landscape WITH_REPLACED precision, credibility, and speed. This is not a traditional recruiting role you will need to deeply understand the nuances of Indias AI talent market and operate as a strategic partner to hiring managers, candidates, and founders alike.

What Youll Do

Sourcing & Pipeline

• Build proactive sourcing strategies to identify top-tier AI/ML candidates across IITs, IISc, IIITs, and other Tier-1 institutions, as well as research labs, open-source communities, and AI startups across India.
• Develop and maintain pipelines for hard-to-fill roles including ML Research Scientists, AI Engineers, LLM/NLP specialists, and AI Product Managers WITH_REPLACED a deep understanding of the India talent pool for each.
• Leverage LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, ArXiv, Hugging Face, Naukri, iimjobs, and academic conferences (including local events like India AI Summit, COMAD, and regional IEEE chapters) to identify passive talent.
• Build talent maps and compensation benchmarking reports specific to Indias AI market across metros (Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune, Delhi NCR, Mumbai) and emerging tech hubs.

• Own the end-to-end candidate journey from initial outreach through offer acceptance, ensuring a world-class experience at every stage.
• Write compelling, personalized outreach that resonates WITH_REPLACED technical candidates no generic templates.
• Act as a genuine ambassador for the companys mission, culture, and technical vision.

• Partner closely WITH_REPLACED hiring managers, technical leads, and founders to define role requirements, craft accurate job descriptions, and calibrate expectations.
• Design structured interview processes and evaluation rubrics tailored to AI/ML roles.
• Provide regular pipeline updates, hiring metrics, and market feedback to leadership.

• Lead offer negotiations including equity, compensation, and signing packages, WITH_REPLACED a strong close rate on top-tier candidates.
• Navigate competing offers, relocations, and visa processes for international hires.

• Contribute to employer branding efforts including content, events, and community presence in AI/ML spaces.
• Represent the company at AI conferences, hackathons, and university recruiting events.

What Were Looking For

• 37 years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, WITH_REPLACED at least 2 years focused on AI/ML roles.
• Demonstrable track record of closing senior ML/AI hires in competitive markets.
• Strong technical literacy you understand the difference between a transformer and a decision tree, and can hold credible conversations WITH_REPLACED PhDs.
• Experience recruiting for startups or high-growth environments where speed, creativity, and adaptability are essential.
• Proficiency WITH_REPLACED ATS tools (Ashby, Greenhouse, Lever) and sourcing platforms.
• Excellent written and verbal communication especially for cold outreach and candidate engagement.

• Prior experience at an AI-native company, research lab, or frontier tech startup in India.
• Familiarity WITH_REPLACED the India academic ecosystem IIT/IISc PhD pipelines, MTech programs, and research publication culture.
• Network within Indias NLP, computer vision, reinforcement learning, or data science communities.
• Experience managing moonlighting, notice period negotiations, and competing ESOP/retention packages common challenges in the India AI market.
• Background or degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related technical field.

Within 30 days: You have a clear understanding of our hiring roadmap, have built sourcing pipelines for our top 3 open roles, and have made your first qualified placements.

Within 90 days: Your pipelines are active and efficient, time-to-fill is tracking under 45 days for mid-level roles, and hiring managers consider you a strategic partner not just a sourcer.

Within 6 months: You have meaningfully grown our AI team, contributed to compensation benchmarking, and begun shaping our employer brand within the AI community.

How To Apply

Send your resume and a brief note (35 sentences) describing the most technically complex AI/ML hire youve ever made and what made it hard. We care more about evidence of your thinking than a polished cover letter.

How to apply for this opportunity

• Step 1: Click On Apply! And Register or Login on our portal.
• Step 2: Complete the Screening Form & Upload updated Resume
• Step 3: Increase your chances to get shortlisted & meet the client for the Interview!

Our goal is to make hiring reliable, simple, and fast. Our role will be to help all our talents find and apply for relevant contractual onsite opportunities and progress in their career. We will support any grievances or challenges you may face during the engagement.

(Note: There are many more opportunities apart from this on the portal. Depending on the assessments you clear, you can apply for them as well).

So, if you are ready for a new challenge, a great work environment, and an opportunity to take your career to the next level, dont hesitate to apply today. We are waiting for you!