HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE HHMI
Human Resources Generalist
University of California, San Diego
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Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$16,150 more — $108,243 — moves this role to Level IV and 4 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $108,243 would place this position at wage Level IV. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Human Resources Specialists" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Human Resources Specialists (13-1071) · San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- This broad generalist role covers the full employee lifecycle at HHMI.
- The work combines established processes with situations that require judgment.
- You'll often be the first person a new hire meets and someone managers rely on when sensitive situations arise.
Responsibilities
- Own onboarding end to end: preboarding, orientation and 30- and 90-day check-ins.
- Support employee relations casework alongside HR Business Partners: intakes, development plans, memos, and Performance Improvement Plans.
- Identify opportunities to improve HR processes and workflows, then help design and implement better ways of working.
- Participate in P&C projects that cut across HR and other functions, contributing both subject-matter knowledge and hands-on implementation support.
- Support recruitment activities in Workday and the performance review cycle, and build the checklists and SOPs that keep the rest of HR consistent.
Requirements
- The position requires mobility, including the ability to move materials weighing up to several pounds (such as a laptop computer or tablet).
- ability to see and hear within normal parameters
- ability to move about workspace.
- Comfort balancing projects with ongoing HR work.
- You can contribute to broader P&C initiatives, help move work from idea through implementation and still stay on top of the operational details that keep HR running.
Nice to have
- Experience with Workday specifically, not just an HRIS in general.
- What this role is not
- This is not a purely administrative or forms-processing job.
- The role includes transactional work, but it also requires judgment.
- This is not a strategic HRBP role.
- You'll contribute through the issues, patterns and risks you identify and escalate, but the day-to-day work is operational.
- This is not a specialist role.
- Practical details
Compensation
- Our employees are compensated from a total rewards perspective in many ways for their contributions to our mission, including competitive pay, exceptional health benefits, retirement plans, time off, and a range of recognition and wellness programs.
- Annual The posted range reflects HHMI's good faith estimate of the anticipated hiring salary range for this role at the time of posting.
- Actual hiring compensation is determined by a candidate's qualifications, experience, and internal equity.
Benefits
- Actual hiring compensation is determined by a candidate's qualifications, experience, and internal equity.
- Coordinate benefits and leave questions with the Benefits team and HHMI's leave administrator, as well as retirement enrollment.
- You've worked across onboarding, offboarding, benefits, compensation, leave and employee relations rather than within a single HR specialty.
- Visit our Benefits at HHMI site to learn more.
- In a given week, you might run new hire orientation, coordinate an exit interview, follow up on a leave status, and help draft a job profile with Compensation.
Company info
- What we are looking for - Broad generalist experience.
- What we are looking for
Equal opportunity
- Persons with disabilities may be able to perform the essential duties of this position with reasonable accommodation.
- Requests for reasonable accommodation will be evaluated on an individual basis.
- HHMI is an Equal Opportunity Employer
This listing is sourced directly from HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE HHMI's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.