Founding Recruiter

ABOUT TYPESAFE

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 ROLE

We 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

LIFE AT TYPESAFE

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 PROVIDE

- Base salary of $150k–250k plus equity, based on leveling

- 100% covered health insurance

- Daily lunch and dinner

- Visa sponsorships

- 401K plans