Founding Recruiter

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.

Responsibilities

• 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

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in full‑cycle recruiting with proven success, particularly in scaling strong technical teams
• Experience scaling teams in high‑growth, fast‑paced environments
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity, making judgment calls with imperfect information, and operating with a high degree of autonomy
• 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
• Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to juggle multiple searches and priorities simultaneously
• 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.

Benefits

• 100% covered health insurance
• Daily lunch and dinner
• Visa sponsorships
• 401K plans

Pay

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