Claire Yan
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Senior Technical Recruiter - AI/ML/SWE at Waymo
Mountain View, California, United States
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Senior Technical RecruiterWaymoMar 2025 - Current (1 year 6 months)Waymo - formerly Google self-driving car project - is an autonomous driving technology company with a mission to make it safe and easy for people and things to move around. With the Waymo Driver, we can improve the world’s mobility while saving thousands of lives.- Senior Technical RecruiterRadarFeb 2023 - Jan 2025 (2 years)- Scaled the team from 30 to over 100 FTEs in less than two years as the sole recruiter with 90% closing rate, earning executive recognition for recruitment excellence. - Led full-cycle recruiting: source, screen, interview candidates, negotiate offers and close requisitions for Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Data Scientist, Software Infrastructure, Hardware and Business talents while ensuring regulatory compliance and good candidate experience. - Partnered closely with the hiring managers to better understand the business hiring needs and create sourcing, hiring and closing strategies for each role. - Tracked recruitment metrics and provide regular reports on the hiring process’s effectiveness. - Used data to analyze root causes of h
- Senior Technical RecruiterNuroMar 2019 - Nov 2022 (3 years 9 months)- Led the toughest-to-fill Machine Learning roles recruiting including engineering leadership, Research Scientists and Ph.D. Interns in ML / DL / CV / RL / IL / SR / NLP / GNN / Behavior Prediction / Scene Understanding and Track Classification. - Led the recruiting for software engineers and engineering leadership for Autonomy Platform teams including Machine Learning Infrastructure, Ground Truth, Machine Learning Data Tools, Autonomy Visualization, Data Scientist, etc. - One of the top performers at Nuro consistently exceeding the hiring expectations by 130% per month on average. - Improved the notoriously difficult Machine Learning closing rate from 38% to 67%. - Achieved ~40% Underrepresented Minorities(URMs) hires. - Established except
- Senior Technical RecruiterTencent AmericaSep 2017 - Mar 2019 (1 year 7 months)Tencent is one of the largest Internet and technology companies, the largest and most valuable gaming (Tencent Games) and social media company and the world's biggest investment corporation. - Full life cycle recruiting for TEG Tencent AI Lab, IEG Tencent Games and Tencent Pictures, CDG G&A, etc. - Successfully hired about 100 candidates in 2018, key contributor in growing the company by 3X. - Requisitions in TEG include Principal Researcher, Senior Researcher and Research Intern (Ph.D.) in ML, NLP, NLU, CV, ASR, Speech Synthesis, TTS, Robotics, etc. Reqs in IEG include Senior Game Designer, Art Project Manager, Art Director, Game Developer-Client Engineer and Server Engineer, Manager/Sr. Manager of International Business Development
- Talent Advisor/ Sr. HR Generalist (Acquired by Nice.com)SatmetrixApr 2017 - Aug 2017 (5 months)Full cycle recruiter and HR specialist.
- Sr. Technical RecruiterIntelliPro Group IncFeb 2016 - Mar 2017 (1 year 2 months)Specialties: Engineer Staffing, Talent Management Acquisition, Recruitment. As a professional recruiter, I manage the entire recruiting process from sourcing candidates, to interview-coaching, to negotiating offers and completing on-boarding. In an effort to place only the best candidates with my hiring managers sourcing candidates via job-boards, campus recruiting, social-networking, working referrals, resume review/reworks, maintaining strategic business relationships. I take pride in my relationship building skills and my ability to come up with solutions very quick. Working for prime direct clients like Google, LinkedIn, Adobe, Intuit, Huawei, Hisilicon, Alibaba/Mayi, Tencent(腾讯), JD.com(京东), GoerTek(歌尔声学), Midea(美的), OPPO, Equinix,
- Recruiter/HR CoordinatorHealth Talent SolutionsOct 2014 - Sep 2015 (1 year)The parent company is Health Talent Solutions and our client is AltaMed, the largest independent Federally Qualified Community Health Center in the U.S. Recruiting and HR coordination for healthcare workers.
- Human Resources & Executive Assistant (Intern)USA FirmwareMay 2013 - Nov 2013 (7 months)- Sourcing and recruiting. - Event planning.
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- Master of Labor Relations and Human Resources, Human RecourcesCleveland State UniversityJan 2012 - Jan 2014 (2 years 1 month)
- Bachelor of Economics, International Business/Trade/CommerceHubei Normal UniversityJan 2008 - Jan 2012 (4 years 1 month)
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