Founding Recruiter (onsite, contract)

Our Client is an AI evaluation and security company. The company’s platform helps enterprise teams test whether AI systems — large language models, agents, and the applications built on them — are reliable, accurate, safe, and resistant to failure or misuse.

In practical terms: when a company builds a product powered by AI, they help them find out where it breaks, what risks it carries, and whether it is ready to put in front of real users. The platform automates evaluation that would otherwise require large internal QA teams working through AI outputs manually — at a fraction of the time and cost.

Founded by ML researchers from Meta AI and Meta Reality Labs. Backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners and others. Fast-scaling, technically credible, and operating at the center of one of the most active segments in enterprise AI.

This is the foundational recruiter at a company that is hiring fast and needs its recruiting function to run cleanly. You are not a coordinator. You are not a pure sourcer. You are the person who owns the operational backbone of every active search: scheduling, candidate communications, loop coordination, offer logistics, and closing support — all of it, all at once. The company has active inbound, a growing pipeline, and hiring managers who need a recruiting partner they can trust completely. Your job is to make sure nothing falls through, every candidate is treated well, and every loop moves at startup speed. Contract role. Approximately 40 hours per week. Bay Area in-person presence.

What to Expect

• High volume of active loops across technical and non-technical roles. You will be managing candidates at every stage simultaneously and will be expected to sequence your work by urgency, not by order of arrival.
• The hiring manager is hands-on and will want a true partner: someone who flags issues early, manages candidate experience tightly, and contributes to closing strategy, not just logistics.
• The interview process includes a live screen-share exercise. You will be asked to demonstrate how you handle a real scheduling scenario, draft a candidate communication in real time, and describe the client on the fly.
• What succeeds here: precision, accountability, proactive communication, and genuine command of the company story.

• Someone who has been the only recruiter — or one of two — at a seed, Series A, or Series B company. Not someone who worked at a startup alongside a team of eight recruiters. The real thing.
• End-to-end recruiting ops ownership: scheduling, ATS, coordination, comms
• Stage-based prioritization — closes-first, always
• High personal accuracy standard, without needing to be managed to it
• Can describe what the client does clearly and credibly to any candidate
• Disciplined, bounded use of AI tools — every external output is reviewed before it goes out
• Comfortable building process in ambiguity
• The right person brings energy and precision together. High pace is expected. Sloppy is not.

 

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.