Research Recruiter — Frontier AI Lab

Salary: $350k plus Bonus & Equity

Hybrid Palo Alto - 3 days a week

A frontier AI lab is building general-purpose world models: causal, interactive, real-time simulations. Not video generation, but actual simulation with a persistent world state, real-time interactivity, and agent-readiness. The team is ~50 people, scaling towards 150, and well-funded by tier-1 VCs and strategic corporate investors.

They're hiring a recruiter to focus purely on research talent, the people building the world models themselves.

What you'll do

• Own full-lifecycle research searches: source, engage, close against every other frontier lab competing for the same small pool of people.
• Source where researchers actually are: papers (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, RSS, CoRL), GitHub, citation graphs, lab alumni ...