Discovery Partner – AI & Biomedical Talent (Contract)

About Xaira Therapeutics

Xaira is an innovative biotech startup focused on leveraging AI to transform drug discovery and development. The company is leading the development of generative AI models to design protein and antibody therapeutics, enabling the creation of medicines against historically hard-to-drug molecular targets. It is also developing foundation models for biology and disease to enable better target elucidation and patient stratification. Collectively, these technologies aim to continually enable the identification of novel therapies and to improve success in drug development. Xaira is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, and London.

Position Overview
The use of generative AI to design medicines is reshaping the future of human health. To build the team driving this transformation, we’re looking for a Discovery Partner who can attract and hire world-class AI scientists, research engineers, software engineers, and biomedical AI scientists.

In this role, you’ll partner with technical and scientific leaders to design and execute strategies for recruiting the innovators who will redefine how medicines are created. This isn’t traditional biotech recruiting, its talent discovery at the frontier of AI and human health.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage full-cycle recruitment for roles spanning AI/ML research, research engineering, software engineering, and biomedical AI.
• Develop sourcing strategies that reach into AI research labs, open-source communities, engineering networks, and biomedical science hubs.
• Partner with hiring managers to define competencies and create compelling job profiles.
• Represent the company as a talent ambassador at AI/ML and biomedical events.
• Guide interviewers and teams to run a structured, fair, and rigorous evaluation process.
• Use recruiting data and analytics to refine search strategies and improve hiring outcomes.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of recruiting experience, with a focus on AI, ML, engineering, or biomedical science roles.
• Proven success recruiting AI scientists, engineers, and interdisciplinary researchers
• Familiarity with the AI and biomedical research ecosystem, including major conferences, publishing venues, and academic-to-industry talent flows
• Familiarity with talent pipelines from GitHub, open-source projects, and leading academic/industry labs.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills with technical talent and internal leaders.
• Data-driven approach with experience using metrics to optimize performance.
• Passion for generative AI, biomedical innovation, and shaping the future of human health.

Compensation

Hourly
The base pay range for this contract temp position is expected to be $85.00-$125.00 hourly; however, the base pay offered may vary depending on the market, job-related knowledge, skills and capabilities, and experience.

Xaira Therapeutics an equal-opportunity employer. We believe that our strength is in our differences. Our goal to build a diverse and inclusive team began on day one, and it will never end.

TO ALL RECRUITMENT AGENCIES: Xaira Therapeutics does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias or employees. XairaTherapeutics is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.