We are looking for a Founding Recruiter with 4+ years of experience to be the first dedicated talent hire at a Sequoia-backed Series A AI infrastructure company that just came out of stealth. You'll be the sole owner of recruiting, responsible for helping Edra double headcount every six months—primarily by sourcing and closing exceptional engineers in New York. This is a sourcing-heavy, builder's role: no separate sourcing function, no rec-ops team—just you, partnering directly with the founders to fill critical technical roles. You'll need to be creative, hungry, and sharp enough to conduct initial technical screens that save engineers' time. If you thrive in high-intensity environments and want to define the talent engine at a company solving the hardest problem in enterprise AI, this is your opportunity.

What will you be doing?

Owning end-to-end technical recruiting with a heavy emphasis on outbound sourcing across LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, Twitter, and Reddit to fill 4-5 engineering roles per month
Conducting initial technical screens to assess candidates' relevance—evaluating language experience, AI background, and fit before passing to engineering
Building the entire recruiting infrastructure from scratch: ATS (Ashby), sourcing workflows, interview loops, and candidate experience
Sitting with founders and hiring managers in-office to participate in real-time hiring decisions and calibration
Balancing the engineering team between New York and London, with immediate priority on growing the New York engineering headcount

Edra is solving one of the hardest problems in enterprise AI: AI models are intelligent but generic, while every business runs on specific processes that live in people's heads, stale documents, and ticket histories.

Edra builds AI agents that reverse-engineer how a business actually operates — learning from existing systems to create executable knowledge: structured, white-box instructions that agents can act on. The result is AI that doesn't just think, but actually runs operations the way your business does.

Backed by Sequoia, HVC, and Pub Spot Ventures, Edra raised a $23.8M Series A and came out of stealth in early March 2025. The company already counts HubSpot, ASOS, and Cushman & Wakefield among its customers — many of whom became customers before their investors even had the opportunity to invest.

Edra is a deeply technical team of engineers, AI researchers, and strategists founded by ex-Palantir leaders. The culture is high-intensity, high-ownership, and builder-first — everyone joins as an IC, nobody is hired with the promise of managing people, and growth into leadership happens organically as functions scale. The team works in-office five days a week across New York and London, with a shared belief that exceptional people are the foundation of everything great they'll build.

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