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Talent Intelligence Researcher

Mission: Find the future builders of AI, before the rest of the world knows their name.

We are building something different at Groq - not just another recruiting pipeline, but a capability to see around corners. We are not hiring typical sourcers, we are building a frontier talent function - and that starts with the research. We are looking for a Talent Intelligence Researcher: part investigator, part talent cartographer, and part systems thinker. Your job is to go deep - mapping ecosystems, identifying hidden operators, and understanding what makes exceptional talent tick.

This role is for someone who’s less about LinkedIn templates and more about surgical talent mapping. We’re looking for someone who doesn’t just recruit, they detect signal in the noise. You will mind unconventional signals, spot emerging AI talent before they trend, and help Groq build longview relationships that shape the future of our team.

W - What will you achieve?

Build, identify and engage Groq’s earliest trust-based relationships with top talent and under-the-radar talent across the industry
Create and share a live, evolving map of the most promising AI operators

H – How will you achieve it?

Through deep research across technical communities, open-source ecosystems, and emerging AI space
Deploying a variety of strategies including building Linkedin Recruiting Projects / or Gem Projects from scratch
By providing recruiters and hiring managers with fresh, curated intel and context-rich profiles rooted in what’s next, not just what’s available.

O – Outcomes in 6–12 Months

Groq has a live, evolving map of exceptional, hard-to-find technical talent
Establish Groq as a magnet for high-conviction, high-agency, AI-native talent, even in markets where we don’t have open roles yet.
Influence new role creation and hiring strategies based on candidate-led insights.
Deliver 4–6 exceptional hires that began as futurecast talent conversations.

How you spend your time:

Talent Ecosystem Research: conduct deep-dive research to uncover emerging talent across technical, commercial, and hybrid profiles—often before job titles exist. Use unconventional sources (GitHub, ArXiv, data sources) to surface early signals and build zero-to-one sourcing strategies in whitespace areas (e.g. GroqCloud evangelists, AI-native GTM thinkers, AI founders turned builders).

Market Mapping: Build structured, evolving talent maps of high-potential founders, builders, and experimenters and foster relationships with these unconventional candidates to understand what they’re building, what motivates them, and where they fit. Explore niche corners of the internet (X, Hacker News, ArXiv, Hugging Face, GitHub, Discords) to find voices and work that matter. Build zero-to-one sourcing strategies in whitespace areas (e.g. GroqCloud evangelists, AI-native GTM thinkers, AI founders turned builders).
Trend & Migration Mapping: Track AI industry talent trends, talent migration patterns (post-acquisition, startup shutdowns), and new role emergence ( AI Infrastructure PMs, Inference Ops, etc.). Distill patterns into actionable insights.
Insight Sharing: Partner with recruiting and hiring leaders to shape future roles based on what the market is showing us, not just what reqs say today.
Test and Iterate: Constantly evolve approach, community entry points, and talent ecosystems that yield insight and conversion.

Ideal candidates have/are:

A Researcher’s Mindset: You lead with curiosity. You know how to dig, discover, and connect - with rigor and relentlessness. You're just as comfortable reading papers on ArXiv as you are lurking in Discords or DMing someone who just posted a novel model on X.
Talent Cartographer: You map trends, where the talent is going, why they’re moving, what they want next. You connect the dots across companies, roles, side projects, and philosophies. You can track talent migration patterns like a market analyst.
Engineering Leader Whisperer: You know how to talk to ex-founders, rogue operators, indie hackers, and PhD dropouts without sounding like a recruiter. You respect the craft, and they trust you. You are more interested in what someone could be than what they’ve already done.
Tinker-first Operator: You experiment, whether with outreach messaging, channels, tools, or frameworks. You learn in public and iterate quickly. You think sourcing without research is just spam.
Pattern Recognition + Judgment: You can’t always explain it on a spreadsheet, but you know when someone’s going to be great. And your track record backs it up.

Attributes of a Groqster:

Humility - Egos are checked at the door
Collaborative & Team Savvy - We make up the smartest person in the room, together
Growth & Giver Mindset - Learn it all versus know it all, we share knowledge generously
Curious & Innovative - Take a creative approach to projects, problems, and design
Passion, Grit, & Boldness - no limit thinking, fueling informed risk taking

If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you!

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