Founding Technical Sourcer

San Francisco | Work Directly with CEO & Founding Team | OpenAI for Physics | 5 Days Onsite

Location: Onsite in San Francisco

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Equity

UniversalAGI is building OpenAI for Physics. 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). We're building foundation AI models for physics that enable end-to-end industrial automation from initial design through optimization, validation, and production.

We're building a high-velocity team of relentless researchers and engineers that will define the next generation of AI for industrial engineering. If you're passionate about AI, physics, or the future of industrial innovation, we want to hear from you.

As a 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 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 strategically helping closing candidates who have multiple competing offers.

• Source, engage, and close high volumes of specialized technical talent spreading across AI/ML researchers, physics simulation engineers, and deep tech engineers at unprecedented speed

• 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

• Partner directly with the CEO & Hiring Manager to understand role requirements, ideal candidate profiles, and competitive landscape—then execute with relentless urgency

• 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.

• 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 (Linked In Recruiter, Juice Box, Git Hub, Boolean search, X-ray searches, AI sourcing tools, research paper…