Founding Recruiter

TypeSafe AI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Base salary of $180k-280k plus equity

100% covered health insurance

Daily lunch and dinner

Visa sponsorships

401K plans

Job summary

TypeSafe AI, located in San Francisco, is seeking its first internal recruiter to shape its hiring process and build a world-class team. The ideal candidate will have at least 5 years of experience in full cycle recruiting, specifically in scaling technical teams, and is comfortable in high-growth environments.

TypeSafe AI values emotional honesty and kindness, striving for a collaborative work environment that promotes personal and team growth. The role involves owning the recruiting process from start to finish and developing effective sourcing strategies while maintaining a focus on the company’s mission.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in full cycle recruiting with proven success in scaling technical teams.
• Experience in high-growth, fast-paced environments.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and operating autonomously.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end recruiting function from sourcing to closing.
• Shape the hiring process for a fantastic candidate experience.
• Run daily operations such as interview coordination.

Skills

Full cycle recruiting

Scaling technical teams

Navigating ambiguity

Emotional awareness

Exceptional organizational skills

Creative engagement of talent

Job description

TypeSafe is a frontier model lab. We build reliable and general AI systems to power economically valuable automation. Our mission is to usher in a new era of Transformative Artificial Intelligence (TAI): technology with the power to drive a societal shift on the scale of the agricultural and industrial revolutions.

While others chase benchmarks and academic puzzles, we’ve been quietly rethinking the LLM stack from first principles — building a new kind of general frontier model designed for real-world reliability, decision-making, and autonomy in production.

We’re a small, fast-moving team from OpenAI, Google Brain, and Meta/FAIR, backed by top-tier investors. Since mid-2024, we’ve been engineering the foundation for what comes after the current “state-of-the-art” — a model that actually gets things done.

About the Role

We are looking for our first internal recruiter hire to shape our hiring process and systems, build a world-class talent brand, and hire amazing team members.

What you'll do:

• Own the end-to-end recruiting function: sourcing, recruiting, coordinating, closing

• Shape hiring process to craft both a fantastic candidate experience at every touchpoint, from first outreach through offer

• Run the day to day operations such as interview coordination and quick feedback loops

• Understand our unique culture and diverse talent needs to hire a world-class team

• Develop and execute sourcing strategies to build pipelines of highly qualified candidates

• Build out teams from scratch across multiple functions

• Define and track recruiting metrics and use data to drive continuous improvement

• Take a high level strategic view of talent management and planning with the executive team

We are looking for people who:

• Have 5+ years of experience in full cycle recruiting with proven success, particularly in scaling strong technical teams

• Have experience scaling teams in high-growth, fast-paced environments

• Are comfortable navigating ambiguity, making judgment calls with imperfect information, and operating with a high degree of autonomy

• Are kind, emotionally aware, and genuinely care for people's wellbeing

• Have a bias for action to move quickly and creatively to engage top tier talent

• Have exceptional organizational skills with the ability to juggle multiple searches and priorities simultaneously

• Are excited about our mission and about playing an instrumental role in furthering that mission

• Nice to have: Excited to build, test, and dogfood recruiting tooling and systems

Life at TypeSafe

We’re a small, flat, close-knit team dedicated to real-world impact preparing the world for Transformative AI. Our team works fully in-person in our San Francisco office near Embarcadero station. We love what we do and care about our work a lot.

We strive for excellence and craftsmanship and won't stop until we get there. When the team wins, we all win, and we enjoy collaborating and inspiring each other to grow as a team and as individuals.

We also value emotional honesty, kindness, and bringing your whole self to work. We build machines; we don't try to be machines.

We want you to be able to do the most impactful work of your career at TypeSafe and help define our future as a company.

We provide

• Base salary of $180k-280k plus equity, based on leveling
• 100% covered health insurance
• Daily lunch and dinner
• Visa sponsorships
• 401K plans