Technical Recruiter

About Krea

At Krea, we are building next-generation AI creative tools. We’re dedicated to making AI intuitive and controllable for creatives - our mission is to build tools that empower human creativity, not replace it. We believe AI is a new medium that allows us to express ourselves through various formats - text, images, video, sound, and even 3D. We're building better, smarter, and more controllable tools to harness this medium.

We’ve raised over $83M and are backed by world-class Silicon Valley investors such as Andreesen Horowitz and Bain Capital. We work full-time and in-person at our waterfront office in San Francisco. We care about creativity: our team includes musicians, designers, visual artists, and engineers.

This job:

We’re looking for a technical recruiter with an engineering background to help us grow our team. We’re still small (~20 people) and want to hire exceptional infra, backend, AI research, and product talent. You’ll work directly with the founders building a clear plan for where to find the right people and running a fast, thoughtful hiring process end to end.

What you’ll do:

• Develop a plan for finding strong infra, backend, ML and product candidates across industry, academia, and the less obvious channels of the internet.

• Build and maintain pipelines through direct outreach, communities, events, projects, and referrals.

• Talk to candidates with real technical depth: look at repos, research, past work and understand how they think.

• Run the full recruiting process - screening, conversations, scheduling, offers, and closing - with steady follow-trough.

• Keep an eye on the broader talent landscape and share what you’re seeing: where strong people come from, how the market is shifting, and what candidates care about.

• Help make sure the outside world has a clear picture of who we are through job descriptions, candidate experience and events.

• Build lightweight processes and habits that make hiring smoother as we grow.

Example experiences and skills we’re looking for:

• You’ve been a software engineer and can evaluate technical work directly - repos, research papers, experiments, architecture decisions.

• You’ve hired or closed strong technical people before - whether as a recruiter, an engineer, a founder, or someone who has built teams in another way.

• You have a strong network in engineering / ML / AI or know how to build one quickly.

• You’re organized and reliable on execution: clean pipelines, fast loops and thoughtful follow-through.

• You communicate clearly and directly, both with candidates and with the team.

• Founder experience or early-stage hiring experience is helpful but not required.

What we offer:

• Visa support (STEM OPT, OPT, H-1B, O-1, E-3).

• A chance to work closely with a world-class engineering and research team.

• Real ownership over how we hire and how we grow.

• Competitive compensation (75th percentile of market) with meaningful equity.