Founding Recruiter
typesafe ai is hiring a Founding Recruiter in San Francisco, United States. It pays $150k-$250k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Level.
AI in this role
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 roleWe 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
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 provideBase salary of $150k–250k plus equity, based on leveling
100% covered health insurance
Daily lunch and dinner
Visa sponsorships
401K plans
How we rate this
Founding Recruiter at typesafe ai rates 30 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Little AI. AI is not part of the work.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Open the description and count.
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