Recruiter, Data Center Infrastructure

AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.

41 current maintainers27 active leads7 new active leads120 lead step-downs17 early lead departures
San Francisco, United States
About OpenAI

OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group, a public benefit corporation governed by the Foundation.

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Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.

About the Role

You will own searches from intake through offer and start, partnering with hiring managers, recruiters and sourcers across sites and regions. You will balance specialized technical searches with recurring site-based hiring, build pipelines, keep leaders informed and lead closing conversations.

Requirements

  • Full-cycle recruiting experience for technical or operational teams
  • Ability to build trust with hiring managers and challenge assumptions with market evidence
  • Experience building pipelines across multiple geographies
  • Experience recruiting for data centers or adjacent environments such as energy, construction, advanced manufacturing or field operations (data center experience is a plus)

Responsibilities

  • Build relationships with hiring managers before searches open
  • Lead search intake and calibrate candidate profiles and interview criteria
  • Develop and execute sourcing strategies and direct outreach
  • Manage multiple searches across sites and reset priorities as build schedules shift
  • Use pipeline data and candidate feedback to identify bottlenecks
  • Keep leaders informed on hires and start dates
  • Own the candidate relationship from first outreach through start
  • Lead closing conversations and coordinate offer approvals and start dates

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
  • Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax accounts
  • 401(k) with employer match
  • Paid parental leave, medical and caregiver leave
  • Flexible PTO
  • 13+ paid company holidays and company office closures
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid life and disability coverage
  • Learning and development stipend
  • Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends