About this opportunity
WorkGenius Group lists this Contract Talent Sourcer (AI/ML + Product) opportunity in rockford, Illinois. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Type: Temp (6–9 months) • Location: Remote US TZs
Target Roles: Forward Deployed Engineer, Senior ML Engineer, Research Engineer/Scientist (Alignment), AI Product Manager
Own the top of funnel : map the market, generate calibrated pipelines fast, and hand off HM-ready prospects with crisp notes. No “post & pray.”
What You’ll Do (Sourcing-First)
Market mapping: Build company/lab/OSS target lists; track movers (arXiv, OpenReview, Google Scholar, Hugging Face, GitHub).
Outbound at scale: Tailored outreaches; iterate subject/copy; test 3–5 variants; maintain reply metrics.
Profile calibration: Validate signals (repos, papers, shipped features, MLOps stack, product outcomes).
Light pre-screen (10–15 min): Confirm level, comp ballpark, work auth, location, timeline, and role fit; capture structured notes.
Handoff: Package candidates with scorecard snapshot + links; book with recruiter/HM.
Role Signals You’ll Target
FDE: Customer-facing build/ship, Python + data wrangling, rapid proto, consultative comms.
Senior ML Eng: Prod LLM/ML (inference, RAG, fine-tune, evals), MLOps (deploy/observability).
Research/Alignment: Strong math/ML fundamentals; safety/evals/interpretability/RLHF artifacts.
AI PM: Shipped AI features, experiment cadence, metric/latency/trade-off literacy.
Must-Haves
2+ years sourcing for deep eng/ML/AI roles
Tools: ATS, LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub search, arXiv/Scholar, Notion/Airtable, Gem/Fetcher.
Clean pipeline habits
Engagement
30–40 hrs/week
Who can apply
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