Technical Sourcer, Residency (Contingent)

About the team

OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) which benefits all of humanity. This is a long-term undertaking that brings the world’s best scientists, engineers, and business professionals under one lab, together, to accomplish this. 

In pursuit of this mission, our Recruiting team is responsible for finding, assessing, and hiring exceptional talent across various fields and specialties. The team acts as consultative partners to our leaders across the organization, from technical managers up to our CEO, Sam Altman. We’re an established, collaborative team with a balance of structure, process, and ambitious problems to solve for.

About the role

As a Technical Sourcer at OpenAI, you’ll have the opportunity to act as a strategic leader and build out org-wide best practices and processes. There is a significant impact opportunity available on our recruiting programs team for someone who has deep experience sourcing for a wide range of highly specialized roles and driving all stages of the front-end candidate funnel. You’ll own hiring manager relationships across the entire organization, identify and engage leading experts in their respective fields, and partner with our recruiters, program managers and Technical leaders to carefully scale, diversify and optimize our Residency program.

The OpenAI Residency provides a pathway for engineers and researchers to transition into the field of artificial intelligence. Residents build on their existing experience while learning and working on practical problems with our teams. OpenAI has long been home to many self-taught researchers and engineers. We’re looking to scale up our program significantly in 2023 and need full sourcing support to achieve our ambitious goals.

In this role, you will:

• Partner with our Programs team and hiring managers across the business to build and improve recruiting processes and develop customized sourcing strategies for each of your roles, with a focus on finding underrepresented talent
• Build highly targeted searches that deliver candidate profiles with precision
• Craft thoughtful approaches to candidate outreach that will engage even the most passive talent
• Cultivate relationships with high priority targets over the long-term
• Act as the primary touchpoint for candidates from initial outreach until the onsite interview stage, ensuring an exceptional candidate experience throughout 
• Utilize non-traditional and creative strategies to discover undervalued talent
• Take a highly organized and data driven approach to candidate tracking and funnel metrics
• Represent OpenAI and engage with candidates at conferences and events
• Effectively lead and contribute to cross-functional projects

Our ideal candidates will have:

• Experience sourcing software engineering talent across a range of specializations including ML/AI, research, hardware, supercomputing, security, etc. 
• Experience sourcing for non-technical roles such as product design, program management, policy, communications, legal, finance, operations, marketing, etc.
• Demonstrable success in hiring top technical talent at a premier tech company and/or high growth startup
• Track record of delivering healthy candidate volume across a wide variety of roles simultaneously, while maintaining a high degree of responsiveness and care to each stakeholder and candidate in process

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Are deeply interested in technology and artificial intelligence, and their potential for positive impact on humanity
• Passionate about building and growing relationships 
• Connect and relate to a wide range of people, personalities, and values
• Care deeply about building a diverse recruiting pipeline and inclusive work environment
• Have a history of balancing a high volume of open roles with ease
• Learn quickly and adapt well to a constantly 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 do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or other legally protected statuses. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. 

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via [email protected].