inferact - HR & Recruiting Lead, APAC

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in business, human resources, psychology, communications, technology, or a related field. • 5+ years of experience in talent acquisition, technical recruiting, executive search, or an equivalent recruiting-focused role. • Demonstrated success proactively sourcing and closing hard-to-hire technical talent rather than relying primarily on inbound applicants or an existing contact list. • Experience recruiting engineers or other highly technical profiles in Singapore, China, or the broader APAC technology market. • Fluency in Mandarin and strong professional English communication skills. • Strong relationships or demonstrated ability to build relationships across Singapore technology and AI talent communities and major Chinese technology companies. • Ability to own searches end-to-end, including intake, market mapping, outbound sourcing, screening, candidate management, stakeholder communication, offer support, and onboarding handoff. • Experience recruiting for AI infrastructure, machine learning systems, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, GPU computing, developer tools, or other deeply technical domains. • Experience building a recruiting function, regional talent program, or new-market hiring motion from 0 to 1. • Experience using LinkedIn, GitHub, research publications, technical communities, referrals, events, and other proof-of-work signals to identify candidates. • Experience partnering directly with founders, engineering leaders, and external recruiting firms in a high-growth startup environment. • Familiarity with Singapore hiring practices, local talent channels, onboarding, benefits administration, and employment pass workflows. • Comfort learning enough about vLLM, inference systems, and Inferact's technical roles to credibly engage sophisticated engineering candidates. • Built durable recruiting networks across both Singapore and Mandarin-speaking technology communities. • Recruited talent from companies such as ByteDance, Kuaishou, Baidu, Xiaohongshu, Alibaba, Tencent, Grab, Sea, TikTok, Google, Meta, NVIDIA, or similar technology organizations. • Created a repeatable sourcing engine for scarce technical talent using market maps, community research, GitHub, publications, referrals, and targeted outbound campaigns. • Supported local employee onboarding, benefits questions, office operations, or immigration coordination in Singapore. • Location: This role is based on-site in Singapore.