Your day-to-day activities will include handling candidate communications, sourcing talent and seeking referrals, screening applications in our ATS, and coordinating interviews and paid work trials. An ideal candidate for this role might already have multiple years of recruiting experience at a small, fast-moving organization.
This role is fully remote, and we are able to hire in many countries. We invite anyone who is interested to apply, regardless of background, experience, or credentials. Please do not include a cover letter, photograph, or headshot of yourself, or any personal information that is not relevant to the role for which you're applying (including marital status, age, identity traits, etc.).
Applications are rolling.
Key Responsibilities
- Scope new roles with hiring managers: define ideal candidates, must-haves, and realistic timelines before a role opens
- Advertise roles, seek referrals, and proactively source candidates through networks, job boards, communities, and direct outreach
- Design skills assessments and screening filters that mirror real work
- Own candidate communications: fast, warm, and complete responses at every stage
- Screen high volumes of applications quickly and calibrate judgments with hiring teams
- Project-manage 5–10 simultaneous hiring rounds: pipelines, scheduling, budgets, and decision timelines
As a Senior Recruiter, you would also own more strategic decisions, such as which analytics to track for hiring and making recommendations for the budget size of each hiring round.
What we're looking for
- 1–2+ years of recruiting experience, ideally at a small or early-stage organization, or 3+ for a Senior Recruiter
- Familiarity with applicant tracking systems (we use Lever) and comfort experimenting with AI tools in your workflow
- Familiarity with the AI research landscape and adjacent research/nonprofit communities
- Excellent communication skills most of this job is words, and candidates will experience Epoch through yours. The employee experience begins with you!
- Strong prioritization under pressure: many rounds, many stakeholders, and a clear sense of what matters first
- Transparent reasoning: you explain your judgment calls to hiring managers and push back constructively when a bar seems miscalibrated
- High agency: when you don't know an answer, you find it and answer the question rather than redirecting to someone else
- Ability to travel: our three team retreats per year are strongly recommended for all staff
If you don’t tick all these boxes but think you would be a great fit, please consider applying anyway!
Compensation & Benefits
- Annual salary between $105,000 and $140,000 USD, depending on seniority.
- For successful candidates based in the San Francisco Bay Area, we will adjust salaries upwards to 21% more.
- In Washington DC and New York City, we will adjust salaries upwards to 10% more.
- In countries where employment costs are particularly high we will adjust salaries downwards 10%, or 20% in Brazil, Sweden, or France.
- Salaries are not restricted to USD, and contracts and payments are usually in local currencies. Conversions are based on one-year average exchange rates.
- Fully remote environment, including flexible work hours.
- Competitive global benefits program, including a comprehensive health insurance program—including supplemental benefits specific to a local country, as available and mandated by local law—and life insurance and a pension plan, if applicable in your country.
- Generous paid time off (PTO), including no specific annual limit, with 30 days PTO per year protected, unlimited personal and sick leave, and 4 months paid parental leave for permanent staff with at least 12 months of tenure (prorated parental leave if less than 12 months).
- A flexible and generous expense policy for you to spend on equipment and a large range of productivity tools or learning/development opportunities, including unlimited spending on AI tools, subject to regulations and manager approval.
- Access to our very well-equipped offices in Berkeley, California, including paid meals and a gym, or reimbursement for coworking space in your area, if desired.
While we welcome applicants from all time zones, we prefer candidates who can overlap with UTC–8 (Pacific Time) and UTC (Greenwich Mean Time), as most of our staff work in this range of time zones. We also prefer candidates who can travel: we hold three retreats per year, during which we record podcast episodes and other communication efforts.
Please submit all of your application materials in English and note that we require professional level English proficiency.
Epoch is committed to building an inclusive, equitable, and supportive community for you to thrive and do your best work. We’re committed to finding the best people for our team, so please don’t hesitate to apply for a role regardless of your age, gender identity/expression, political identity, personal preferences, physical abilities, veteran status, neurodiversity or any other background. Please email [email protected] if you have any questions about this role, accessibility requests, or if you want to request an extension to the application deadline. However, we will not review applications submitted to this email address; please submit your application through the link on this page.
About Epoch AIEpoch AI is a research institute that investigates trends in machine learning and the economic consequences of AI. Our mission is to develop a comprehensive, publicly accessible knowledge base on AI that informs policymakers, industry leaders, and society at large.
We strive to achieve both rigor and accessibility to our work, as exemplified by some of our most successful projects, including our database of AI models and our AI trends dashboard. Our body of research includes our work on compute trends (IJCN 2022), data scarcity (ICML 2024), and algorithmic progress (NeurIPS 2024). You can read more about our work and mission on our website and in this Time profile.
Skills Required
- 1–2+ years of recruiting experience for Recruiter candidates
- 3+ years of recruiting experience for Senior Recruiter candidates
- Familiarity with applicant tracking systems, specifically Lever
- Comfort experimenting with AI tools in recruiting workflows
- Familiarity with the AI research landscape and adjacent research or nonprofit communities
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong prioritization under pressure
- Transparent reasoning and ability to constructively challenge hiring decisions
- High agency and ability to independently find answers
- Professional-level English proficiency
- Ability to travel to approximately three team retreats per year
- Experience recruiting at a small or early-stage organization
What We Do
Epoch AI is a multidisciplinary research institute investigating the trajectory of artificial intelligence. Its mission is to understand the driving forces behind AI's development and forecast its ramifications on the economy and society. The organization emphasizes making its research accessible through reports, models, and visualizations to ground discussions of AI on a solid empirical footing and foster a rigorous scientific environment.
