Technical Sourcer (Contract)

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Drive top-of-funnel recruiting efforts and attract technical talent crucial for scaling Chalk's machine learning platform.

About Chalk

Chalk is building the data platform that powers the future of machine learning applications. We tear down complexity, latency, and scale barriers that have traditionally constrained ML capabilities. Our platform combines Rust-speed performance with elegant tools that developers love to use. Leading companies depend on Chalk for everything from stopping fraudulent credit card swipes, diagnosing sepsis, and maximizing clean energy capture. We've recently raised a $50 million Series A, led by Felicis.

About the role

Technical Sourcer will help drive top-of-funnel recruiting efforts across various organizations within the company. As a Technical Sourcer, you will play a pivotal role in identifying and attracting top-tier technical talent to help us scale and build the future of Machine Learning. You’ll partner closely with our founders, engineering leadership, and hiring managers to attract and hire top-tier talent. This is a mission-critical role: our product and engineering teams are at the heart of our growth.

We're in the office 5 days a week. When unavoidable conflicts come up, we’re flexible. This is not a hybrid role.

What you will do

  • Identify, engage, and recruit top technical talent for various engineering and data science roles within the company.
  • Collaborate with hiring managers to understand role requirements and develop targeted sourcing strategies.
  • Build and maintain a pipeline of candidates through proactive sourcing methods, including networking, online platforms, and industry events.
  • Conduct initial screenings and assessments to evaluate candidate skills and cultural fit.
  • Track metrics to measure the effectiveness of sourcing strategies and improve recruitment processes.

What we’re looking for

  • Proven experience in technical recruiting or sourcing in tech-focused environments.
  • Strong understanding of data science, software engineering, and machine learning concepts.
  • Proficiency in using various recruiting tools and platforms, including LinkedIn and applicant tracking systems.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships with candidates and hiring teams.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple recruitment processes simultaneously.

Bonus points

  • Experience working at a startup
  • Experience sourcing for Software Engineers/Machine Learning Engineers
  • Understanding of Machine Learning Ops/Infrastructure

Compensation

Salary based on experience 

Actual compensation awarded to successful candidates will be based on several factors, including individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process.

Inclusivity

Chalk is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and inclusion and provide reasonable accommodations to anyone in need of individualized support.

Meet Chalk Chalk is building machine learning infrastructure to answer the world’s hardest questions. Our platform is built to power credit, risk, insurance, medical, and recommendation decisions for the world’s most innovative companies. Answering these complex questions requires sourcing data from a wide range of providers and rapidly iterating on feature definitions. Chalk makes it easy for machine learning teams to build high-performance pipelines that deliver data to models at the right time. We orchestrate infrastructure and automatically track data lineage so developers can work confidently and focus on their unique products and insights. Meet Our Founders Elliot started his career at Affirm where he built the early risk and credit data infrastructure system (the inspiration for Chalk). He then started Haven Money (with Andy) which Credit Karma acquired to power its banking products. Andy met Elliot at Stanford admit weekend – Elliot was his room host and they’ve been best friends ever since. After school, Andy worked at Palantir on large government data infrastructure projects. He then founded Haven Money (with Elliot) which now powers Credit Karma Money. Marc spent many years at Google where he helped to launch the first version of Google Wallet. He went on to start Index which Stripe acquired as its in-store payment solution – it’s now called Stripe Terminal.

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