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Recruiter (Research)

White Circle· Operations
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RemoteFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

AI Research Recruiter responsible for full-cycle hiring across ML/AI research, multimodal engineering, and ML infrastructure to build a leading AI safety team.

Responsibilities

  • Own full-cycle recruitment for ML/AI Research, Multimodal ML Engineer, Research Scientist (AI Behaviours, Evals, Agentic Systems), and ML Infra roles
  • Develop a deep understanding of White Circle’s research agenda, technical challenges, and the profiles required to solve them
  • Source talent from AI labs, research organisations, technical startups, universities, open-source communities, and relevant scientific networks
  • Understand differences between Research Scientists, Research Engineers, Applied ML Engineers, and ML infra Engineers & assess candidates accordingly
  • Evaluate candidates’ actual contributions
  • Engage researchers and engineers who are not actively looking for a new role and communicate why White Circle’s problems are technically meaningful
  • Design structured hiring processes that assess research depth, engineering ability, originality, and real-world impact
  • Deliver an exceptional candidate experience, including for candidates navigating multiple highly competitive opportunities
  • Track recruiting performance and continuously improve sourcing strategies, processes, tools, and workflows
  • Support hiring outside your primary stream when business priorities require it

Qualifications

  • Have 2+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including significant experience hiring Research and ML talent
  • Have personally hired for several roles comparable to Research Scientist, Research Engineer, ML Research Engineer, Applied Scientist, Multimodal ML Engineer, or ML Infrastructure Engineer
  • Understand what these roles do and how their responsibilities, technical depth, and candidate pools differ
  • Can confidently discuss LLM training and fine-tuning, inference, evaluations, data pipelines, model behaviour, multimodal learning, agent systems, and ML infra
  • Can interpret technical profiles beyond keywords, job titles, or company names
  • Know how to assess the significance of a candidate’s publications, open-source work, models, datasets, experiments, and production systems
  • Understand where exceptional AI research talent can be found and how to reach candidates who are not visible through conventional sourcing channels
  • Participate in or closely follow AI research and engineering communities
  • Can build credibility with highly technical candidates and communicate nuanced research problems accurately
  • Have experience recruiting across the US and European markets
  • Can act as a trusted talent advisor to technical hiring managers and research leadership
  • Are comfortable operating with ambiguity and continuously refining profiles as research priorities evolve
  • Are willing and able to recruit beyond Research roles when needed
  • Speak and write fluent English (C1+)
  • A big plus: experience recruiting for frontier AI labs, strong existing network among AI researchers, sourcing through publications/conferences/open-source, technical/research background, startup recruiting experience

Skills

Required:Full-cycle recruiting

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation package, including equity
  • Flexible time off
  • Health insurance
  • Mental health support, including therapy coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Learning and development support for courses, conferences, and skill growth
  • All the hardware, subscriptions, tools, and services you need
  • Team off-sites twice a year
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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