Recruiter, AI/ML Research

OpenAI; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a high-impact recruiter to own long-term talent strategies for AI researchers, research engineers, and technical scientists. You will work alongside OpenAI’s research staff to shape hiring priorities, influence search strategies, and guide hiring decisions that affect frontier-model research and our mission.

You will partner with research and technical teams to anticipate talent needs as roadmaps evolve, proactively cultivate top AI/ML talent across academia and industry, and

Responsibilities

• Partner directly with research and technical staff to define hiring priorities, shape search strategies, and anticipate future talent needs as technical roadmaps evolve.
• Proactively identify and cultivate exceptional AI/ML research talent across industry, academia, and emerging labs, often before formal hiring needs exist.
• Use market insights and candidate signals to influence hiring decisions, leveling, and compensation strategy for highly specialized research roles.
• Serve as a trusted advisor throughout candidate evaluation and closing — helping leaders calibrate for research excellence, long-term potential, and organizational fit.
• Collaborate closely with your sourcing partner to execute complex, high-impact searches in ambiguous or rapidly evolving technical domains.

Job description

About the Team

OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) that benefits all of humanity. Achieving this requires bringing the world’s most exceptional talent under one roof to push the boundaries of what’s possible. Our Research Recruiting team plays a critical role in this effort. We are an embedded part of the research organization, working side by side with our research staff to deeply understand evolving priorities, build trust, and strategically shape the future of OpenAI’s talent.

About the Role

You will own and execute long-term talent strategies to identify, engage, and recruit many of the world’s leading and emerging AI researchers, research engineers, and technical scientists working at the frontier of machine learning. This is not a traditional execution-focused recruiting role. You will operate as a strategic partner to OpenAI’s research staff, helping define hiring priorities, shape search strategy, influence candidate evaluation, and guide hiring decisions that directly impact the direction and quality of our frontier-model research and fulfillment of our mission.

In this role, you:

• Partner directly with research and technical staff to define hiring priorities, shape search strategies, and anticipate future talent needs as technical roadmaps evolve.


• Proactively identify and cultivate exceptional AI/ML research talent across industry, academia, and emerging labs, often before formal hiring needs exist.


• Use market insights and candidate signals to influence hiring decisions, leveling, and compensation strategy for highly specialized research roles.


• Serve as a trusted advisor throughout candidate evaluation and closing — helping leaders calibrate for research excellence, long-term potential, and organizational fit.


• Collaborate closely with your sourcing partner to execute complex, high-impact searches in ambiguous or rapidly evolving technical domains.

You might thrive in this role if you: Significant experience recruitin