People Partner, Engineering

Talanto; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous vacation & parental leave

Flexible working hours

Lovely SF office space

Job summary

Talanto is seeking a senior People Partner based in the San Francisco Bay Area to support Product and Core Technology teams, especially Engineering. This role will be a key member of the People Partner team, guiding HR programs across compensation, benefits, recruiting, and leadership coaching.

You will help shape HR policies for a fast‑growing tech company, partnering with executives to build scalable programs and ensure safe, steerable AI development.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent required.
• 6+ years in HRBP/People Operations or related fields.
• Experience supporting Product/Engineering teams in tech.

Responsibilities

• Act as trusted advisor to leaders across Product and Engineering.
• Partner with Benefits, Compensation, and Recruiting on HR programs.
• Support performance management and employee relations with care.
• Collaborate on organizational design and scaling for technical teams.

Skills

Senior HRBP

Leadership coaching

HR policies & programs

Cross‑functional partnerships

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

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's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the role

We are looking for an exceptional senior People Partner based in the Seattle or San Francisco Bay Area to support our Product and Core Technology teams, specifically Engineering teams. This role will be a critical member of the People Partner team, working on key HR projects in alignment with our partners across Compensation, Benefits, Recruiting, and others while providing excellent coaching and strategic support to senior leaders and managers across technical functions who are building the products and infrastructure that power AI systems. You will help build out HR policies and strategies that meet your clients' unique needs, and act as a trusted leader and guide on a wide range of employee-related topics.

Key responsibilities

• Act as a trusted advisor and coach to leaders across Product and Engineering teams, including senior technical leaders and executives
• Provide support to employees and managers on all human resource-related topics throughout their lifecycle at in partnership with other People team experts (e.g. Benefits, Compensation, Performance etc.)
• Work closely with management to create a culture of high performance based on our values and team culture while helping ensure that performance management and employee relations issues are managed appropriately
• Act as a partner and liaison with specialist teams (e.g. Benefits, Compensation, etc.), leadership, and finance, to help continue to implement top-tier, scalable programs and policies to attract, retain, and grow outstanding talent at
• Work on cross-functional projects with other HRBPs and partners in specialist teams to enable and grow our Ants (e.g. Manager training, etc.)
• Partner with technical leaders on organizational design, team scaling strategies, and talent development initiatives specific to product and engineering organizations
• Support career development frameworks and progression paths unique to technical roles
• Have experience operating at a fast-growing Tech company in HR, and fluency with employment law and best practices in North America
• Have worked at a tech company, start-up, or a similarly fast-paced environment
• Have experience partnering with technical organizations and understand the unique dynamics of product and engineering teams

Preferred qualifications

• Have a minimum of 6+ years experience working in HRBP, People Operations, Employee Relations, Recruiting, or other closely related functions
• Have specific experience supporting Product,Engineering, or Infrastructure teams
• Have experience in AI/ML companies or with technical teams building cutting-edge technology products
• Understand technical career ladders, engineering culture, and the unique challenges of scaling technical organizations
• Care deeply when it comes to helping and supporting a diverse set of people at all levels of an organization, excelling in supporting employees and managers to do their best work
• Have proven experience and skill sets in providing confidential, practical support and are trained in topics like conflict resolution
• Have strong working knowledge of human-resource-related best practices and are able to effectively implement these in a culturally appropriate fashion
• Be a pragmatic problem-solver and enjoy developing creative solutions
• Thrive in building and scaling processes, and enjoy identifying and setting up new systems at a quickly growing company
• Care about ensuring that advanced AI systems are developed safely, and have a deep curiosity about artificial intelligence and its potential applications

Logistics

• Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
• Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
• Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
• Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
• Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.

How we're different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to , including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

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