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Matt McMahon

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Talent at Decagon
📍 San Francisco, California, United States

Matt is a talent acquisition professional focused on building engineering teams for high-growth AI companies. He has led technical recruiting at Decagon, Scale AI, and CoinTracker, specializing in software and machine learning roles. He holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of California, Davis.

His career began with hands-on operational experience in pioneering technology at Googles self-driving car project. This foundation in an innovative hardware and software environment likely informs his approach to identifying top technical talent for cutting-edge companies today.

He once gave composer A. R. Rahman a ride in a Google self-driving car before the project was publicly known as Waymo.

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Experience
11 Years
Current Role
Talent
Location
San Francisco, California, United States
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AI Talent Acquisition
He specializes in recruiting software and machine learning engineers for pioneering AI companies like Decagon and Scale AI.
Enterprise AI Agents
His current company, Decagon, builds enterprise agents using frontier language and voice models, a topic he actively promotes.
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Work history

4-2025
Talent
Decagon
1-2024 - 4-2025
Senior Technical Recruiter
Scale AI
2021 - 8-2023
Senior Technical Recruiter
CoinTracker
2016 - 2021
Recruiting Lead
Forward, Inc.
2014 - 2016
Operations, Waymo
Google
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Education
Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
University of California, Davis
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