Roboflow

🖼️ Give your software the sense of sight.

Technical Recruiter

Remote (US)
Job type
Full-time
Role
Recruiting & HR, Recruiter
Experience
Any (new grads ok)
Visa
US citizen/visa only
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About the role

Technical Recruiter

Who We Are

Our mission is to make the world programmable. Sight is one of the key ways we understand the world, and soon this will be true for the software we use, too.

We’re building the tools, community, and resources needed to make the world programmable with artificial intelligence. Roboflow simplifies building and using computer vision models. Today, over 1M+ developers, including those from half the Fortune 100, use Roboflow’s machine learning open source and hosted tools. That includes counting cells to accelerate cancer research, improving construction site safety, digitizing floor plans, preserving coral reef populations, guiding drone flight, and much more.

Our team is small relative to our impact, and we believe our users’ success is our success (not the inverse). A team member summarized: “Roboflow is a company full of giant brains and tiny egos.” We find software has a multiplier effect on all roles (not only product and engineering), so Roboflow employs developers across the company in design, sales, customer support, marketing, and beyond.

We’re supported by great customers and investors, having raised over $63 million from Google Ventures, Y Combinator, Craft Ventures, Sam Altman, Lachy Groom, and other leading software investors.

What We're Looking For

Primarily, you like making great things with passionate colleagues. You prefer owning outcomes to completing tasks, and you're motivated by helping exceptional people find work where they can have outsized impact.

You're fascinated by how strong technical organizations are built. You enjoy understanding what makes great engineers, product managers, designers, and researchers effective—and helping hiring teams identify those signals early.

We are less concerned with the number of years you've spent recruiting than with the impact you've had. You know recruiting is not simply about filling open positions. Exceptional hiring compounds across an organization for years. You approach recruiting as a strategic function that helps shape the future of a company.

You are constantly asking, “How can this be better?” Whether improving sourcing approaches, candidate experience, interview design, or recruiting systems, you look for opportunities to raise the bar.

You understand how strong product and technical teams operate. You can distinguish genuine technical depth from interview performance and help hiring managers identify candidates who raise the bar rather than merely fill a role.

What You'll Do

As a Technical Recruiter, you'll own hiring across Product, Engineering, Design, and Research.

Success in this role means consistently identifying and hiring exceptional builders, creating candidate experiences that reflect Roboflow’s values, and improving the systems that help us scale hiring without sacrificing quality. You'll earn the trust of hiring managers, help shape hiring strategy, and ensure we continue building a team that ships quickly, cares deeply about users, and raises the bar for excellence.

  • Own full-cycle recruiting across Product, Engineering, Design, and Research

  • Partner with hiring managers to define success profiles, interview loops, and hiring strategy

  • Build and maintain high-quality pipelines through sourcing, networking, referrals, and creative outreach

  • Develop conviction around candidate quality through structured assessment and evidence-based evaluation

  • Create exceptional candidate experiences from first conversation through close

  • Improve recruiting systems, processes, and tooling to increase hiring quality and efficiency

  • Partner with leadership on workforce planning and future hiring needs

  • Continuously refine how Roboflow attracts, evaluates, and hires technical talent

  • Take ownership of recruiting initiatives and strategic projects aligned with your experience and strengths, helping improve how Roboflow attracts, evaluates, and hires exceptional technical talent

Who You Are

  • Demonstrated success recruiting technical talent in startup, SaaS, AI, developer-tool, or related technology environments. We are open to candidates across multiple experience levels, from experienced individual contributors to senior recruiting operators with a track record of shaping hiring strategy and recruiting systems.

  • Experience hiring software engineers, machine learning engineers, researchers, product managers, designers, or similarly technical roles

  • Strong sourcing instincts and a track record of building high-quality candidate pipelines

  • Ability to evaluate technical and product-oriented candidates beyond keyword matching and résumé screening

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

  • Proven ability to earn trust with hiring managers, challenge assumptions when necessary, and drive hiring decisions through sound judgment and evidence

  • Strong operational rigor and ability to manage multiple searches simultaneously while maintaining exceptional candidate communication

  • Curiosity about technology and enthusiasm for learning how technical teams operate

  • Bias toward action, ownership, and continuous improvement

Where You'll Work

Roboflow’s team is distributed across the world. We currently have Hubs in New York City, San Francisco, Brazil, and Singapore (and plan to open more as we grow density in new cities). We provide opportunities (like team onsites in different cities) and<u>resources</u> (like a $4000/yr travel stipend) to work in person with other team members as much as you'd like, while also supporting remote team members. You can work from one of our Hubs (we offer a relocation bonus), work from home, work at co-working spaces, etc. We want you to work where you work best!

What You'll Receive

To determine your compensation, we use a number of market- and data-driven salary sources. We review compensation every six months to ensure we remain aligned with the market.

We are open to exceptional candidates across multiple experience levels, from experienced individual contributors to senior recruiting operators.

The target base compensation for this role is $110,000–$225,000, with additional equity compensation.

Compensation, title calibration, and scope of ownership will be determined based on demonstrated capability, expected impact, and the needs of the business.

In addition to cash compensation, we offer:

  • Equity in the company so we’re all invested in the future of computer vision

  • $4,000/year Travel Stipend to work alongside other Roboflowers anywhere, anytime

  • $350/month Productivity Stipend for things like high-speed internet or co-working space

  • Up to 100% coverage of health insurance for you and your family

  • Remote-first / flexible schedule

  • Unlimited PTO (with a 2-week annual minimum)

  • 12 weeks parental leave

Interview Process (~4 hours)

Before the Interview

We’ll review your application, LinkedIn, and any materials you share.

The strongest applications demonstrate curiosity about Roboflow, thoughtful research into our business, or examples of exceptional recruiting work.

Introduction Phase

  • [45m] Meet with the hiring manager

  • [45m] Meet with People Operations

Team Interview Phase

  • [45m] Meet with an engineering leader

Final Stage

  • [60m] Deep dive on your sourcing strategy, technical recruiting familiarity, and recruiting systems

Not Sure If This Is You?

We want a diverse, global team with a broad range of experiences and perspectives. If this role sounds exciting but you're unsure whether you meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply.

Exceptional recruiters come from many backgrounds, and we care more about demonstrated capability, curiosity, judgment, and ownership than checking every box.

Learn More About Us

At Roboflow, we believe great ideas come from everywhere—and everyone.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive team.

About Roboflow

We're on a mission to remove barriers that prevent developers from building their own computer vision applications. Roboflow streamlines the process of labeling, training, and deploying a computer vision model.

Why

Computer vision is going to transform every industry. We're already seeing this play out in fields like transportation (self driving cars), agriculture (drone spraying), and medicine (early stage cancer detection). But these superpowers shouldn't be locked up in the handful of giant technology companies that can afford to hire teams of machine learning PhDs.

What

Roboflow enables any developer to use computer vision without being a machine learning expert. Our product is the key missing infrastructure that allows developers turn raw images into a useful model -- replacing a sprawling list of one-off utils everyone previously had to reinvent and enabling our users to have working models in hours, not weeks.

For example, Sarah Hinkley from Barn Owl Drones uses vision to identify weeds from crops in drone images so her customers can use fewer herbicides and grow more. She's one of our over 1M+ users working on problems we couldn't even imagine when we got started!

Who

Roboflow is a venture-backed SaaS startup that empowers innovators all over the world to build, train, and deploy computer vision models. Roboflow believes that computer vision is a foundation technology that will transform nearly every industry. We currently have over 250,000 users, including half of the Fortune 100. Roboflow has enabled our customers to accelerate cancer research, conduct experiments in space, accelerate the world’s transition to green energy, and improve the retail experience (to name a few!) with world-altering technology. Investors like Y Combinator, Google Ventures, David Sack’s Craft Ventures, Lachy Groom, the founders of OpenAI (Sam Altman and Greg Brockman), and many others back Roboflow.

As with any rapidly scaling startup, we hope to build a team that is both versatile and adaptable. Each role has tremendous potential for growth. As such, we believe that coachability, enthusiasm, and an entrepreneurial mindset are more important than experience or qualifications.

Growth

Roboflow went from zero to over 20,000 users in 2020 (and now to over 1M+ in 2025) and our customers are requesting features and product enhancements faster than we can provide them.

We're starting to build out our engineering, marketing, and sales teams. As an integral part of our core team, all roles will inevitably involve wearing a lot of hats; we're specifically looking for people excited about learning new things and filling gaps where needed. And most importantly, we're looking for people who ship.

Learn more about us on our careers page (https://roboflow.com/careers).

Roboflow
Founded:2019
Batch:S20
Team Size:100
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Founders
Brad Dwyer
Brad Dwyer
Founder
Joseph Nelson
Joseph Nelson
Founder