UniversalAGI

UniversalAGI

Founding Technical Sourcer

San Francisco · Exec

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 82 days ago
GitDatabricksMachine LearningBrand StrategyProcess ImprovementRecruitingANSYSFEACFDResearchCommunicationCollaboration

About the role

  • As our founding Technical Sourcer, 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 learned about technical recruiting and use it to build a world-class team that will transform industrial engineering.
  • You'll work directly with the CEO and founding team to identify, engage, and close the most specialized technical talent in the world: AI researchers, CFD engineers, physicists, applied mathematicians, and deep tech builders who are currently defining the cutting edge at places like OpenAI, NVIDIA, ANSYS, Siemens, Tesla, SpaceX, and top research labs.
  • This isn't passive recruiting. This is strategic talent acquisition at the highest level-finding needles in haystacks, building relationships with people who aren't looking, and closing candidates who have multiple competing offers.

Responsibilities

  • Build and execute creative sourcing strategies to identify talent in highly specialized niches: AI researchers working on physics-informed neural networks, CFD engineers from automotive/aerospace/maritime, computational physicists, applied mathematicians, and systems engineers
  • Own the entire candidate pipeline from initial identification through offer acceptance, managing 50+ active candidates simultaneously while maintaining exceptional candidate experience
  • Develop deep technical fluency in our domains (AI, CFD, physics simulation, numerical methods) to have credible conversations with senior technical talent and assess fit
  • 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, meetups, and technical 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 technical recruiting looks like in the age of AI.
  • This is your chance to take everything you've learned about technical recruiting and use it to build a world-class team that will transform industrial engineering.
  • UniversalAGI is building OpenAI for Physics.

Requirements

  • 2+ years of high-volume technical recruiting or sourcing experience with proven track record of closing specialized talent quickly.
  • Strong technical fluency and ability to quickly learn complex technical domains to have credible conversations with senior engineers and researchers.
  • Ability to earn respect through deep technical curiosity and genuine understanding of what makes engineers tick
  • 2+ years of high-volume technical recruiting or sourcing experience with proven track record of closing specialized talent quickly. You've personally closed 30+ technical hires and can demonstrate rapid pipeline-to-offer conversion.
  • Expert in sourcing strategies and tools (LinkedIn Recruiter, JuiceBox, GitHub, Boolean search, X-ray searches, AI sourcing tools, research paper databases, conference attendee lists, etc.).
  • Demonstrated success recruiting for deep tech roles: AI/ML engineers, research scientists, simulation engineers, computational specialists, or similarly specialized technical talent.
  • Outstanding execution velocity and delivery- you move fast, manage multiple pipelines simultaneously, and consistently hit aggressive hiring targets.
  • Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills capable of engaging passive candidates and building long-term talent networks.
  • Data-driven mindset with strong analytical skills to optimize recruiting funnels and improve conversion rates.
  • Comfortable working in high-intensity, fast-paced startup environments with evolving priorities, ambitious hiring goals, and tight deadlines.
  • Bonus Qualifications
  • Experience building recruiting processes and infrastructure from scratch at early-stage startups.

Nice to have

  • Prior experience recruiting for AI startups (Seed to Series C) during hypergrowth phases (0-50+ employees).
  • Experience recruiting for simulation software companies (ANSYS, Siemens, Dassault Systèmes, Altair, etc.) or physics-heavy engineering roles.
  • Background recruiting for research-focused roles (PhDs, postdocs, research scientists) from top universities and labs.
  • Technical background or engineering degree that enables deeper technical conversations.
  • Existing talent network in AI research, computational physics, or simulation engineering communities.
  • Experience with employer branding initiatives and representing companies at technical conferences.
  • Technical Respect: Ability to earn respect through deep technical curiosity and genuine understanding of what makes engineers tick
  • Intensity: Thrives in our unusually intense culture - willing to grind when needed to close critical hires

Compensation

  • Competitive Salary + Equity

Benefits

  • We provide great benefits, including:
  • Competitive compensation and equity.
  • Competitive health, dental, vision benefits paid by the company.
  • Flexible vacation.
  • AI tools stipend.
  • Monthly commute stipend.
  • Monthly wellness/fitness stipend.
  • Competitive compensation with significant equity upside.

Company info

  • AI startup based in San Francisco and 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).
  • If you're passionate about AI, physics, or the future of industrial innovation, we want to hear from you.
  • 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.
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