We’re building the company which will de-risk the largest infrastructure build-out in history.

When people finance GPU clusters, the datacenters housing them, and the infrastructure powering them, they need “offtake” – meaning someone has signed a contract to lease the cluster for a period of time before its even built.

Financing a GPU cluster is inherently risky, since margins are thin and volumes are huge. Lenders don’t want to take on the risk that cluster developers can’t repay their loan, and cluster developers really don’t want to risk not selling their cluster. As a result, risk is offloaded to the customer using fixed-price long-term contracts.

If you don’t mitigate this customer risk, there’s a bubble. This isn’t SaaS anymore – application layer companies sign multi-year contracts for computer and inference, but sell to customers on monthly subscriptions. If you mess up a purchase, it’s game over: a minor shift in your revenue growth rate might mean the difference between profit or bankruptcy. But what if companies could exit their contract by selling it back to the market?

Otherwise, as AI scales, compute only becomes available to folks who can effectively take on that risk. A 2-person startup in a San Francisco Victorian can’t realistically sign a 5-year take or pay contract on $100m supercomputers. But they may be able to buy the month of liquidity that someone else sold back.

So that’s what we make: a liquid market for GPU offtake.

About the Role

We just completed our Series A funding a few months ago and looking to scale our ~30 person team 3-4x the next few quarters! We are ready to bring on board an experienced Founding Recruiter to help build our talent team from the ground up. You’ll own full-cycle recruiting for technical & GTM roles, manage agencies and sourcing platforms, and partner closely with hiring teams to identify and close top talent.

What You’ll do

• Strategic Recruiting: You will own full-cycle recruiting for technical and strategic non-technical roles and manage external recruiting agency relationships to keep our hiring pipeline organized and running smoothly.

• Talent Branding: You will develop our talent brand through through content, events, communities, and candidate touchpoints.

• Recruiting Operations: You will build a repeatable, data-driven hiring engine—including pipeline generation, interview loops, scorecards, closing strategies and handle post-offer administrative tasks like onboarding, benefits review, etc.

• Candidate Experience: You will own the candidate experience – from outreach message to onboarding – ensuring timely communication and a smooth process.

Who You Are

• Experience: You have 6+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including 1+ year in a high-growth startup, talent-dense engineering firm, and/or a top tier search firm. You have a proven track record of closing hard to fill roles.

• Operational Wizard: You will manage recruiting tools, systems, analytics and introduce scalable processes as we grow. You have experience with modern recruiting tools like Ashby, Notion, Gusto, LinkedIn, Wellfound, Slack, DianaHR, Google Suite, Gem/ Juicebox, Ramp, Linear and sourcing platforms. You will use the appropriate tools as needed for state entity filings, compliance, etc.

• Talent Bar: You will collaborate with hiring managers to define role requirements & expectations, success criteria, and ideal candidate profiles. You are someone who cares deeply about talent quality and culture fit, not just quotas.

• Communication: You can sell the vision. You are able to distill complex technical requirements and pitch the opportunity to candidates.

• Flexibility: You are willing to roll up your sleeves for scheduling coordination one minute, consulting with candidates on HR best practices the next minute, and advising a hiring manager on compensation strategy the next.

• Culture: You are resourceful, adaptable, low ego, and comfortable operating in ambiguity.

• Presence: You love working with in-person teams and have no problem reporting into our San Francisco HQ 3-4 days per week.

Bonus Points

• Experience hiring for both technical and non-technical roles (Engineers, GTM, Ops, G&A).

• Experience as a founding recruiter for a fast pace series A-C AI or deep tech company.

• Experience with Human Resources – including streamlining payroll, benefits, onboarding, performance review administration, compensation strategies and compliance.

• Experience with managing cap tables and keeping hiring and equity docs in order.

Benefits

Generous equity grant

Team members are offered a competitive salary along with equity in the company

Visa Sponsorships

Yes, we sponsor visas and work permits

Retirement matching

We match 401(k) plans up to 4%

Medical, dental & vision

We offer competitive medical, dental, vision insurance for employees and dependents and cover 100% of premiums

Time off

We offer unlimited paid time off as well as 10+ observed holidays

Parental leave

We offer biological, adoptive, and foster parents paid time off to spend quality time with family

Daily lunch

We cover lunch daily for employees

Unlimited office book budget

You can buy as many books for the office as you want

The San Francisco Compute Company is committed to maintaining a workplace free from discrimination and harassment.

We make employment decisions based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, belief, national origin, social or ethical origin, age, physical, mental, or sensory disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, HIV status, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status including pregnancy, or any other status protected by law.

We welcome the opportunity to consider qualified applicants with prior arrest or conviction records. Our commitment to diversity includes hiring talented individuals regardless of their criminal history, in accordance with local, state, and federal laws, including San Francisco’s Fair Chance Ordinance and California’s ban-the-box laws.

If you require reasonable accommodation for any reason, please reach out to us at hiring@sfcompute.com

Compensation Range: $170K – $250K