Recruiter, Forward Deployed Engineering

United Kingdom
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About this Team
Our Recruiting team is the gateway to OpenAI — a tight-knit, mission-driven group that takes pride in thoughtful, relationship-first hiring. We partner deeply with teams across the company to find, engage, and support the people who will shape the future of AI. At OpenAI, we are dedicated to building safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) to benefit all of humanity. The Recruiting team is at the heart of this mission, tasked with identifying and hiring exceptional individuals who align with OpenAI's values and cultural ambitions. Our approach to recruitment aims to set the standard for excellence and innovation in the field, connecting outstanding candidates with opportunities to impact the future of AI.

About this Role
We are looking for an experienced Recruiter to build out our Forward Deployed Engineering organization, driving full-cycle hiring for a team that turns research breakthroughs into real-world production systems. You’ll shape hiring strategy with business leaders, run sourcing and evaluation end-to-end, ensure an exceptional candidate experience, and partner across supporting teams like HRBP, Legal, and Compensation to deliver a smooth, compliant process.

In this role you will:

  • Manage full-cycle recruitment for our Forward Deployed Engineering team, including sourcing, managing the recruitment process, and closing candidates

  • Work directly with business leaders to understand departmental objectives and develop proactive hiring strategies that align with organizational goals

  • Utilize advanced sourcing strategies and tools to attract and engage top-tier candidates

  • Ensure an outstanding candidate experience

  • Collaborate with internal teams such as HR, Legal, and Compensation to ensure compliance and operational excellence throughout the recruitment lifecycle

  • Provide expert advice and support to hiring managers on best practices in interviewing, candidate evaluation, and employment branding

You'll thrive in this role if you have:

  • 7+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, particularly within in-house environments at high-growth companies.

  • A strong track record of hiring top 1% talent.

  • A high level of adaptability in fast-paced, evolving environments—balancing strategic vision with hands-on execution.

  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to engage effectively with diverse teams and stakeholders across the globe.

  • A continuous improvement mindset and the ability to evolve processes to meet global hiring needs.

  • Proficiency with ATS and sourcing platforms such as Ashby, LinkedIn Recruiter, and other modern recruitment tools.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.

Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

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