Technical Sourcer

About the Team
At OpenAI, we are dedicated to building safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) to benefit all of humanity. Our mission attracts the world’s top talent in science, engineering, and business to address one of the most ambitious challenges of our time.

This role sits within the Recruiting team and partners directly with OpenAI’s B2B Applications organization—the group responsible for building and scaling the products that bring OpenAI’s research to businesses, enterprises, and governments around the world. The Recruiting team plays a critical role in enabling this work by hiring exceptional talent who can operate in highly technical, fast-moving, and evolving product environments.

About the Role
As a Technical Sourcer, you will be responsible for identifying and engaging top-tier engineering talent to support OpenAI’s B2B Applications teams. These teams build and operate the OpenAI API and Enterprise products that power AI-driven solutions for millions of developers and organizations globally.

You will partner closely with recruiters, hiring managers, and technical leaders across B2B Applications to build pipelines for highly specialized engineering roles, including product engineering, backend systems, and platform-adjacent teams. This role requires comfort sourcing in complex technical domains, navigating evolving product priorities, and operating with speed and rigor as the business scales.

In this role, you will:

• Lead sourcing strategies for engineering roles supporting B2B and enterprise-facing products.

• Build and maintain strong pipelines of passive candidates through proactive outreach, research, and networking.

• Partner closely with recruiters and hiring managers to understand role requirements, team needs, and shifting priorities.

• Leverage advanced sourcing tools and techniques to identify high-impact talent in competitive markets.

• Maintain accurate candidate data and sourcing metrics to inform strategy and execution.

You’ll thrive in this role if you:

• Have 6+ years of experience sourcing engineers, especially across product engineering, backend systems, or platform-adjacent roles.

• Have sourced engineers for B2B, enterprise, developer, or API-driven products.

• Can quickly understand complex technical requirements and translate them into effective sourcing strategies and outreach.

• Build strong partnerships with recruiters, hiring managers, and technical leaders in fast-moving environments.

• Can manage multiple searches simultaneously while maintaining a high quality bar
  Adapt quickly as product priorities, org structures, and hiring needs evolve.

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.

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