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Recruiter

San Francisco, CAOnsiteFull TimePosted 1 month ago

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Required skills

  • full cycle recruiting
  • scaling technical teams
  • high-growth
  • autonomy
  • bias for action
  • top tier talent
  • exceptional organizational skills
  • multiple searches
  • priorities
  • AI

Nice to have

  • recruiting tooling
  • recruiting systems
  • dogfooding

Role summary

TypeSafe, a frontier model lab building reliable and general AI systems, seeks its first internal Founding Recruiter. This role will own the end-to-end recruiting function, shape hiring processes, build a world-class talent brand, and hire exceptional team members across multiple functions. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, particularly in scaling strong technical teams in high-growth environments, and is comfortable navigating ambiguity with a bias for action. This is a fully onsite role in San Francisco, offering a base salary of $150k–250k plus equity.

About TypeSafe

We’re building prod, not god. TypeSafe is an AI lab pushing frontier model intelligence in a new direction, starting with System One Models. We combine the reasoning of LLMs with the reliability of code, for truly trustworthy AI. Our first model, Jev, launched in September 2026.

While others chase leaderboards, we’re rebuilding the LLM stack from first principles to make models smarter and also dependable enough to run in production. We’re a small, fast team backed by an $870M Series A led by a16z. Made in SF, with love. Come join the frontier.

About the role

We are looking for a full-cycle recruiter 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

  • 100% covered health insurance

  • Daily lunch and dinner

  • Visa sponsorships

  • 401K plans

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