# Technical Sourcer, Research

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Seattle, WA
**Role:** Recruiting
**Salary:** $137k – $240k/yr
**Skills:** Sourcing, Talent Acquisition, Ai Research, Technical Recruiting, Candidate Engagement, Pipeline Development, Stakeholder Management, Data-Driven Recruiting, Conference Engagement, Relationship Building
**Posted:** 2026-06-05

> Identify and engage world-class AI researchers and scientists through targeted sourcing, outreach, and relationship-building to support OpenAI's research hiring goals.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build highly targeted searches that deliver candidate profiles with precision
- Craft thoughtful approaches to candidate outreach that will engage even the most passive talent and cultivate relationships with high priority targets over the long-term
- Develop and utilize creative strategies to discover non-traditional, research-adjacent, and/or up and coming talent
- Partner closely with hiring managers across OpenAI to develop customized sourcing strategies and advise them on the market
- Take a highly organized and data driven approach to candidate tracking and funnel metrics
- Represent OpenAI and engage with candidates at conferences and events

## Requirements
- Significant experience sourcing specialized Engineering and/or AI talent across a range of highly technical domains
- Deep interest in AI research and a desire to engage directly with global research communities
- Demonstrable success in sourcing and hiring top technical talent at a premier tech company and/or high-growth startup
- Ability to drive multiple complex searches in parallel while maintaining a high quality bar and exceptional stakeholder + candidate experience
- A passion for the research and mapping components of sourcing; it's a long game

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