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Salary: USD 150,000 - 250,000 / annual
TypeSafe is a frontier AI model lab building reliable, general-purpose AI systems for economically valuable automation. The company is rethinking the LLM stack from first principles to create models designed for real-world reliability, decision-making, and autonomy in production. Founded in mid-2024, TypeSafe is a small, fast-moving team of engineers from OpenAI, Google Brain, and Meta/FAIR, backed by top-tier investors.
As the founding recruiter, you will own the end-to-end recruiting function and shape the company's hiring process and talent brand during a critical growth phase. You will be responsible for sourcing, recruiting, coordinating, and closing candidates across multiple functions. Your responsibilities include:
- Designing and executing the complete recruiting process to create an exceptional candidate experience from first outreach through offer
- Managing day-to-day operations including interview coordination, feedback loops, and hiring logistics
- Developing and executing sourcing strategies to build pipelines of highly qualified candidates
- Building out teams from scratch across multiple functions as the company scales
- Defining and tracking recruiting metrics to drive continuous improvement
- Taking a strategic view of talent management and planning alongside the executive team
- Understanding TypeSafe's unique culture and diverse talent needs to hire world-class team members
You will work in a small, flat, close-knit team fully in-person at the San Francisco office near Embarcadero station. The culture emphasizes emotional honesty, kindness, and bringing your whole self to work. The company provides 100% covered health insurance, daily lunch and dinner, visa sponsorships, and 401K plans.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience with proven success, particularly in scaling strong technical teams
- Experience scaling teams in high-growth, fast-paced environments
- Comfort navigating ambiguity, making judgment calls with imperfect information, and operating with high autonomy
- Kind, emotionally aware, and genuinely care for people's wellbeing
- Bias for action to move quickly and creatively to engage top-tier talent
- Exceptional organizational skills with ability to juggle multiple searches and priorities simultaneously
- Genuine excitement about TypeSafe's mission and playing an instrumental role in furthering it
- Nice to have: Experience building, testing, and dogfooding recruiting tooling and systems
