Technical Recruiter

The posting, as UniversalAGI wrote it

📍 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), 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 relentl

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ego and high accountability—you win when the team wins

WHAT WE OFFER

• Opportunity to build the talent engine for a rapidly growing foundational AI company from the ground up.
• Work on cutting-edge talent acquisition challenges finding the world's most specialized technical talent.
• Direct collaboration with the founder & CEO and ability to influence company strategy and culture.
• Competitive compensation with significant equity upside.
• In-person first culture - 5 days a week in office with a team that values face-to-face collaboration.
• Access to world-class investors and advisors in the AI space who can open doors to top-tier talent networks.

BENEFITS

We provide great benefits, including

• Competitive compensation and equity.
• Competitive health, dental, vision benefits paid by the company.
• 401(k) plan offering.
• Flexible vacation.
• Team Building & Fun Activities.
• Great scope, ownership and impact.
• AI tools stipend.
• Monthly commute stipend.
• Monthly wellness/fitness stipend.
• Daily office lunch & dinner covered by the company.

HOW WE'RE DIFFERENT

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again... who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly." - Teddy Roosevelt

At our core, we believe in being "in the arena." We are builders, problem solvers, and risk-takers who show up every day ready to put in the work: to sweat, to struggle, and to push past our limits. We know that real progress comes with missteps, iteration, and resilience. We embrace that journey fully knowing that daring greatly is the only way to create something truly meaningful.

If you're ready to join the future of physics simulation, build a world-class team from scratch, and deliver impact, UniversalAGI is the place for you.