📍 San Francisco | Work Directly with CEO & Founding Team | OpenAI for Physics | 🏢 5 Days Onsite Founding Technical Recruiter Location: Onsite in San Francisco Compensation: Competitive Salary + Equity Who We Are Engineering simulation is one of the last major categories of software that AI hasn't rebuilt. The tools used to design aircraft, ships, reservoirs, and medical devices still run on numerical methods that are decades old, and an engineer can wait a full day for a single answer.
UniversalAGI is building foundation models that learn physics directly from data, and they are already running in early deployments on real computational fluid dynamics and reservoir engineering problems for some of the largest industrial and defense organizations in the world. We are a team of 25 researchers and engineers in San Francisco backed by Elad Gil (#1 Solo VC), Eric Schmidt (former Google CEO), Prith Banerjee (ANSYS CTO), Ion Stoica (Databricks Founder), Jared Kushner (former Senior Advisor to the President), David Patterson (Turing Award Winner), and Luis Videgaray (former Foreign and Finance Minister of Mexico).
About the Role As a Technical Recruiter, you'll be in the arena from day one, building the talent engine that will power UniversalAGI's hypergrowth. This is your chance to take everything you've done in your career and use it to build a world-class team that will transform industrial engineering. You'll work directly with the founding team to identify, engage, and build out UniversalAGI's technical teams, This isn't passive recruiting.
This is strategic talent acquisition at the highest level - finding needles in haystacks, searching for people, like yourself, who want to have an outsized impact. What You'll Do Own hiring across our technical roles, which includes AI researchers, CFD engineers, physicists, applied mathematicians, and deep tech builders and beyond. You will partner directly with our functional leaders and our growing recruiting team to define hiring priorities, pressure test profiles, and close high impact talent in competitive markets.
You will run point on many of the most critical hires at the company and help shape how it scales. Recruiting is treated as a strategic function here. You will be expected to bring judgment, data, and clear recommendations to the table. Source, engage, and close individual contributors and leaders for a broad range of roles at UniversalAGI Build and execute creative sourcing strategies to identify talent in specialized niches like automotive/aerospace/maritime, computational physicists, applied mathematicians, and full stack engineers Own the entire candidate pipeline from initial identification through offer acceptance, managing 50+ active candidates simultaneously while maintaining exceptional candidate experience Partner directly with the CEO & Hiring Managers to understand role requirements, ideal candidate profiles, and competitive landscape- then execute with relentless urgency Build and maintain a robust talent pipeline that stays weeks ahead of hiring needs, ensuring we never slow down due to lack of qualified candidates Design and optimize recruiting workflows, tools, and processes that scale with our hypergrowth while maintaining quality- you'll build the playbook that future recruiters will follow Track, analyze, and optimize key recruiting metrics: pipeline conversion rates, time-to-hire, source effectiveness, offer acceptance rates, and candidate quality scores Represent UniversalAGI at conferences, and meetups, and relevant communities, building our employer brand and talent network in AI and deep tech circles This is a role for someone who's ready to solve some of humanity's hardest recruiting challenges, build a world-class talent engine from scratch, and define what exceptional recruiting looks like in the age of AI.
Qualifications 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with a strong track record of sourcing and closing exceptional Tech