Senior Recruiter

Who we are

Odyssey is an AI lab pioneering general-purpose world models: causal, multimodal systems that learn to predict and interact with the world over long horizons, while generating real-time, interactive simulations from any starting point. This foundational technology promises to revolutionize robotics, science, healthcare, education, gaming, defense, and beyond.

What we’re looking for

We’re looking for a senior recruiter to own hiring across a broad set of functional areas—including operations, commercial, product, design, go-to-market, people and finance. Nearly every role at Odyssey is unique and high-impact, so this feels more like executive recruiting than high-volume hiring. You’ll work closely with leadership to identify, attract, and close exceptional talent in a highly competitive market.

This is a hands-on individual contributor role. If you’ve reached manager level and want to get back to the craft of recruiting at a company where every hire matters, this could be a great fit.

What you’ll do

• Own the full recruiting lifecycle for operations, product, design, go-to-market, and finance roles.

• Partner directly with founders and hiring managers to define role requirements and hiring strategy.

• Source, engage, and close senior and executive-level candidates in a highly competitive talent market.

• Develop creative outreach strategies to attract candidates who may not yet know Odyssey—we’re building employer brand awareness from the ground up.

• Implement and refine structured, data-driven recruiting processes.

• Leverage AI tools to enhance sourcing, outreach, and workflow efficiency.

• Manage candidate experience end-to-end, ensuring a high-touch, executive-level process for every hire.

Who you are

• Senior-level recruiter with meaningful in-house experience.

• Track record of filling a broad variety of role types across multiple functions.

• Executive recruiting experience strongly preferred—comfort with high-touch, high-stakes searches.

• Has worked in a quickly scaling recruiting organization.

• Contributed to establishing key processes.

• Delivered results in an organization with exceptionally high talent density.

• Curious and quick to ramp on emerging technology—experience in robotics, AI, or DeepTech is ideal but not required.

• You can pitch genuinely interesting, frontier technology to top talent.

• Deep sourcing expertise. Develop sourcing and engagement strategies in highly competitive industry.

• Structured thinker; analytical and data-oriented.

• Relationship oriented when it matters most.

• Exceptional listening skills with candidates and stakeholders.

• Proven ability to use data to drive recruiting performance improvements,

• Able to communicate effectively with logical, data-driven stakeholders (founders, engineers, researchers).

• Experience implementing AI into your recruiting workflow.