# Technical Recruiter at Traversal > United States · Unspecified · Other · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/ashby%3Atraversal%3A90391d6e-d951-4fd6-b90f-dcf5bf62f863 (read 2026-11-14). ## Facts (observed) - Company: [Traversal](https://alderhq.app/companies/traversal) - Location text: New York - Where it can be done from (inferred): United States (evidence: "Location: New York") - Posted: 2026-07-20 (117 days ago) - First seen by alder: 2026-11-07 · last verified: 2026-11-12 - Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times - Apply on the employer's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/traversal/90391d6e-d951-4fd6-b90f-dcf5bf62f863 ## Pay and sponsorship - Posted pay: not posted - Market band for similar posted roles (New York, n 4127): p25 $60k, median $99k, p75 $162k ## Description (the employer's text) ### About Traversal Traversal is the AI Site Reliability Engineer (AI SRE) for the enterprise. Production complexity was already outpacing what engineering teams could manage manually, and AI-generated code is accelerating that gap. Traversal is built for that challenge, autonomously understanding and reasoning across even the largest, most complex production environments to diagnose, fix, and prevent incidents. Our mission is to free engineers from endless firefighting and give them more time to focus on creative, high-impact work. Today, Traversal operates in mission-critical environments at some of the world’s largest enterprises, including PepsiCo, Nubank, Harvey, and DigitalOcean. Our roots remain deeply embedded in AI research, and we’ve brought together researchers from institutions including MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, Columbia, and Cornell with world-class technical staff and operators from companies like Google, Meta, Datadog, ServiceNow, and Citadel Securities to take on one of the hardest problems for AI to solve. Traversal is backed by Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Redpoint Ventures, and Khosla Ventures. ### The Role As a Recruiter, you will own full-cycle hiring for some of Traversal’s most critical roles, initially focused on our Engineering, Product, and Design (EPD) team. You’ll partner directly with hiring managers and founders to define hiring strategy, build and manage pipelines, and deliver an exceptional candidate experience from first outreach through offer. You’ll join a lean, high-ownership Talent team, with real latitude to build process and bar as we scale. As the team grows, this role may expand beyond EPD to support hiring across the company. ### Responsibilities Own full-cycle recruiting for assigned roles, initially within EPD and Research: manage everything from intake through offer, including sourcing, screening, and closing Partner with leaders to build hiring strategy: calibrate role scope, must-haves, and success profiles, and translate them into effective sourcing and screening plans Build and manage active pipelines by proactively sourcing and engaging top candidates, rather than relying solely on inbound applications Drive a best-in-class candidate experience, ensuring every candidate has a thoughtful, well-communicated process Improve recruiting process and infrastructure by building playbooks that scale with the team Represent Traversal acting as a strong ambassador for the company in every candidate interaction ### Requirements 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, ideally including technical hiring at a startup or high-growth company Demonstrated ability to source and close candidates independently, without heavy reliance on inbound pipelines Strong stakeholder management skills; comfortable driving process with engineering, product, and design leaders Excellent written and verbal communication skills High degree of ownership and comfort operating with ambiguity and limited process Strong organizational skills and attention to detail across a high volume of concurrent searches Genuine curiosity about AI and enterprise software, with the ability to speak credibly to technical candidates ### Nice to Have Recruiting experience at an early-stage (Series A/B) AI or developer tooling startup Experience recruiting for applied research or ML-heavy roles Familiarity with modern ATS and sourcing tools (e.g., Ashby, LinkedIn Recruiter, Gem) Experience building recruiting processes or playbooks from scratch Experience recruiting across multiple functions beyond engineering (e.g., go-to-market, operations) Experience with AI native recruiting tools (Juicebox, Metaview, etc.) ### Compensation We offer competitive compensation, startup equity, health insurance, and additional benefits. The U.S. base salary range for this full-time, in-person role in New York is $170,000 - $250,000, plus equity and benefits. Our salary ranges are based on location, level, and role. Individual compensation is determined by experience, skills, and job-related knowledge. --- Data: alder (https://alderhq.app). Cite https://alderhq.app/jobs/ashby%3Atraversal%3A90391d6e-d951-4fd6-b90f-dcf5bf62f863 and the date you read it. Observed facts come from the employer's own listing; location reach, level, family and skills are inferences.