Senior Technical Recruiter, Research

About the Team

OpenAI's mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) that benefits all of humanity. Achieving this requires bringing the world's most exceptional talent under one roof to push the boundaries of what's possible.

Our Research Recruiting team plays a critical role in this effort. We are an embedded part of the research organization—working side by side with our research staff to deeply understand evolving priorities, build trust, and strategically shape the future of OpenAI's talent.

About the Role

You will design and execute innovative, long-term talent strategies to identify and attract the world's leading and emerging AI researchers, engineers, and scientific builders. You will partner directly with research leadership to define talent needs, shape search strategies, guide hiring decisions, and ensure OpenAI continues to hire the brightest minds advancing safe frontier-model research.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA, and we follow a hybrid schedule of three days in the office per week.

In this role, you will:

• Act as a strategic talent partner to executives and hiring leaders; build a deep understanding of business priorities and long-term organizational design needs; and evolve technical roadmaps to anticipate and shape hiring plans.

• Identify, engage, and cultivate exceptional talent across industry leaders and emerging research communities.

• Use data and insights to influence hiring and compensation strategy, benchmarking, talent pipeline decisions, and process improvements; share market intel to help leaders make informed decisions on timing, leveling, compensation, and search design.

• Partner closely with hiring teams on interview strategy, candidate evaluation, closing narratives, and long-term talent mapping, serve as a trusted advisor on the talent quality bar and signals.

• Collaborate deeply with your sourcing partner to accelerate search execution and build talent.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Are extremely passionate about embedding yourself in the AI research community and finding, selecting, and securing the best talent in the world for OpenAI.

• Have 8+ years of recruiting experience across highly technical and specialized domains.

• Navigate and close complex offer negotiations with confidence, prioritizing long-term relationship building and balancing candidate motivations, market dynamics, and compensation frameworks.

• Are deeply interested in artificial intelligence and its potential for positive impact on humanity.

• Lead creative and strategic search approaches for highly specialized technical roles.

• Take initiatives from ideation to execution while collaborating with a diverse set of stakeholders.

• Learn quickly and thrive in a fast-moving, evolving environment with shifting priorities.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. 

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

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