Sourcer
Surge AI
Sourcer
Surge AI
Delivers high-quality AI training data
About Us
Our mission is to raise AGI with the richness of human intelligence — curious, witty, imaginative, and full of unexpected brilliance.
Surge was founded by engineers and researchers who dreamed of building the next generation of AI. Our platform powers the most capable models in the world, in partnership with the AI models you use every day. We've run a profitable business from day one without raising venture funding.
The Role
Great sourcing is detective work. You'll figure out who's doing exceptional work, where to find them, and what would make them want to talk to us.
You'll source across engineering, research, product, and partnerships, working side by side with our recruiters and hiring managers. The bar is extremely high. A good résumé isn't enough, and neither is a keyword match. You need to know what makes someone exceptional, and why.
What You'll Do
Build pipelines for our hardest searches, technical and non-technical.
Map the market. Learn which teams, labs, and communities produce the best people, and share what you're seeing.
Write outreach people actually read: specific, researched, never templated.
Run first conversations and hand recruiters candidates who are warm and ready.
Tell hiring managers when a spec doesn't match the market, and show them why.
Find new channels when the obvious ones run dry.
What We're Looking For
You've found great people in competitive markets. Engineering or research sourcing is a big plus.
You can find people LinkedIn can't.
You write well. Candidates notice.
You don't need a playbook, and you move fast. Great candidates move fast, and so do we.
Surge AI provides high-quality training and evaluation data for AI models. It creates human-annotated datasets, preference data, and reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) to help developers of large language models and other machine learning systems improve accuracy, alignment, and real-world performance, especially for advanced generative AI tasks. The company targets the high end of the data labeling market by prioritizing quality, scalability, and the ability to handle complex, model-critical labeling rather than simple commodity annotations. Its goal is to support better-performing, safer, and more reliable AI systems by delivering data that directly feeds model training and evaluation.
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