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Irregular is a frontier security lab focused on protecting the world from risks posed by increasingly capable AI systems. The company builds next-generation defenses through high-fidelity research platforms that simulate and monitor real-world AI security scenarios, helping identify emerging threats and develop safe deployment strategies for powerful AI.
You will own end-to-end recruitment across Engineering, AI Research, Cybersecurity, and Product functions. This is a hands-on role requiring close partnership with hiring managers and leadership to understand complex hiring needs, source exceptional talent, and guide thoughtful hiring decisions. You'll combine proactive sourcing with strong candidate relationship management and execution excellence, while helping shape recruitment processes as the company scales.
Key responsibilities include:
- Full-cycle recruitment ownership for technical and product roles, from hiring profile definition through sourcing, interviews, and offers
- Close partnership with hiring managers to understand team needs, refine role requirements, and build effective interview processes
- Targeted sourcing strategy development to identify and engage hard-to-reach candidates in engineering, AI, and cybersecurity
- Prospective candidate relationship building, understanding motivations, and connecting their experience to company mission
- Pipeline management through clear communication, timely feedback, and close coordination with candidates and interviewers
- Support for hiring managers and interviewers in candidate evaluation, feedback alignment, and decision-making
- Use of pipeline data and market insights to identify gaps, adjust strategies, and continuously improve recruitment processes
REQUIREMENTS:
- 5+ years of technical recruitment experience in fast-growing startups or technology companies
- Strong track record hiring for complex technical roles with understanding of engineering, cybersecurity, or AI talent markets
- Strong hands-on sourcing skills including talent mapping, targeted outreach, and creative passive candidate engagement
- Experience partnering with hiring managers, asking thoughtful questions, and challenging assumptions
- Ability to build trust with candidates and communicate technical opportunities clearly and credibly
- Strong ownership and organizational skills to manage multiple concurrent searches and drive processes independently in fast-moving environments
- Sound judgment balancing hiring urgency with high talent bar and candidate experience
- Excellent written and spoken English
- Cybersecurity company experience (advantage)
- Global recruitment experience (nice to have)
