Technical Recruitment Sourcer

About World Labs:

We build foundational world models that can perceive, generate, reason, and interact with the 3D world - unlocking AI's full potential through spatial intelligence by transforming seeing into doing, perceiving into reasoning, and imagininginto creating.

We believe spatial intelligence will unlock new forms of storytelling, creativity, design, simulation, and immersive experiences across both virtual and physical worlds.

We bring together a world-class team, united by a shared curiosity, passion, and deep backgrounds in technology - from AI research to systems engineering to product design - creating a tight feedback loop between our cutting-edge research and products that empower our users.

We're looking for a Technical Recruiter / Research Talent Sourcer to join World Labs and help us build a world-class research and engineering team. In this role, you will own and scale our technical recruiting and sourcing systems, with a particular focus on identifying and engaging top-tier AI researchers and engineers from leading universities and industry labs.

You will work closely with founders, research leaders, and hiring managers to translate ambitious research goals into exceptional hires.

Design, build, and continuously improve recruiting and sourcing systems, processes, and tooling with an emphasis on rigor, accuracy, and scalability

Proactively source researchers and engineers from top universities, AI labs, and leading technology companies across ML, robotics, computer vision, and related fields

Maintain exceptionally high-quality candidate data, pipelines, and documentation across ATS and internal tracking systems

Develop creative sourcing strategies using publications, citations, open-source work, conference participation, academic networks, and referrals

Analyze recruiting metrics and pipeline data to identify gaps, improve efficiency, and inform hiring decisions

Support interview coordination and hiring operations as needed to keep processes running smoothly and predictably

3+ years of experience in technical recruiting or sourcing, with a strong focus on AI, ML, robotics, or adjacent deep-tech domains

Demonstrated ability to build and maintain highly organized recruiting systems and processes

Strong data discipline: comfortable working with pipelines, metrics, and structured tracking to drive decisions

Recruiting or sourcing for research-heavy organizations or frontier AI labs

Familiarity with academic research signals (publications, citations, arXiv, conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, RSS, etc.)

Experience hiring PhD-level researchers or highly specialized engineers

Background in startup environments or early-stage team building

Collaborative Spirit: We're building something bigger than any one person. We need team players who can harness the power of collective intelligence.

We're hiring the brightest minds from around the globe to bring diverse perspectives to our cutting-edge work. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law. We welcome all qualified applicants and are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the hiring process upon request.

180,000-$225,000 base salary (good-faith estimate for San Francisco Bay Area upon hire; Base salary plus equity awards