Why this role stands out
As the Founding Recruiter at TypeSafe AI, you will significantly shape the future of a frontier AI company, building a world-class team and defining crucial hiring processes. This impactful role offers substantial career growth and the opportunity to work alongside leading AI researchers, with a highly competitive compensation package of $150,000 - $250,000 annually. If you are a strategic and driven recruiting professional eager to make a foundational impact, this is an exceptional opportunity to apply.
Quick overview
Job description
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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