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title: 'Head of Talent at Hyperbolic Labs'
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# Head of Talent at Hyperbolic Labs

- **Company:** Hyperbolic Labs
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-10-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hyperbolic/4283d14e-f7d6-4a85-954b-52def69f8fc5

## Job description

## Who We Are

Hyperbolic Labs is on a mission to democratize AI by breaking down the barriers to computing power with our Open-Access AI Cloud. By making better use of idle computing resources across the globe, we offer an innovative GPU marketplace and AI inference service that promise affordability and accessibility for all. As pioneers at the intersection of AI and open-source technology, we believe in an open future where AI innovation is limited only by imagination, not by access to resources. We're looking for forward-thinking individuals who share our passion for making AI universally accessible, secure, and affordable. Join us in building a platform that empowers innovators everywhere to turn their visionary AI projects into reality.

## About the Role

Hyperbolic is seeking a hands-on Head of Talent to refine the systems and processes behind our next stage of growth from ~30 to ~70-100 employees in the next 6-12 months. This role will shape what Hyperbolic looks like and where our future holds. Working directly with our founders and leadership team, you will define hiring priorities, personally lead critical searches, and build a rigorous, scalable recruiting engine. This is a player-coach role for someone who can attract exceptional technical and business talent while creating the systems that help us hire with speed and quality.

## What You Will Do

- Own full-cycle recruiting across all departments.
- Translate company goals, mission and culture into clear hiring priorities, candidate profiles, and search strategies.
- Personally source, assess, and close top talent.
- Build the talent roadmap to help Hyperbolic scale and help balance hiring priorities across different functions.
- Design end-to-end talent engine with structured interviews, scorecards, and decision frameworks.
- Serve as a trusted partner to the founders and hiring managers on candidate strategy, leveling, and offer construction
- Stand up the tooling, data, and pipeline visibility we need to run 60+ hires per year without dropping quality
- Manage the recruiting team, recruiting resources and hiring partners efficiently.
- Build Hyperbolic’s employer brand and make Hyperbolic an exciting place to work at.

## Who You Are

- You have 10+ years of recruiting experience, including ownership of a recruiting function in a high-growth company.
- You have successfully hired technical talent across infrastructure, distributed systems, AI/ML, cloud, or developer tools.
- You are a hands-on recruiter who enjoys sourcing and closing, not only managing.
- You have built or meaningfully improved recruiting processes, systems, and metrics.
- You can understand complex technology and engage credibly with senior technical candidates.
- You use data and market intelligence to improve hiring decisions.
- You exercise strong judgment and can challenge leaders constructively.
- You thrive in fast-moving, ambiguous environments and take ownership from strategy through execution.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience at a neocloud, hyperscaler, AI lab, GPU cloud, or infrastructure company.
- Experience as the first or early Talent hire at a venture-backed startup.
- A strong network across AI and infrastructure talent.

Hyperbolic is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Hyperbolic is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

## About Hyperbolic Labs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Hyperbolic provides an open-access cloud platform offering affordable, on-demand GPU compute and AI inference services for developers, researchers, and AI teams.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States (also listed as Irvine, California, per CB Insights) [LinkedIn], [CB Insights]
- **Founded**: 2022 [CB Insights]
- **Founders**: Jasper Zhang (CEO) and Yuchen Jin (CTO, departed April 2026) [hyperbolic.ai/about], [LinkedIn]

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: AI Infrastructure, Cloud Computing, GPU-as-a-Service
- **Target customers**: B2B – AI startups, ML engineers, academic researchers, enterprise AI teams, and individual developers.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Build the world's most accessible and comprehensive AI platform, empowering developers with affordable, seamless access to meet all their AI needs in one unified platform.” [hyperbolic.ai/about]

## Products & Services
- **On-Demand GPU Clusters**: Rent H100/H200 GPUs in under one minute with no sales calls or quota limits. Pay-as-you-go, scale up/down as needed. [hyperbolic.ai]
- **Reserved Clusters**: Guaranteed, isolated capacity for long-term workloads at discounted prepaid pricing. Ideal for 24/7 inference or large training jobs. [hyperbolic.ai]
- **Dedicated Endpoints**: Single-tenant GPU instances with private endpoints for high-throughput inference (100K+ tokens/min) and full control. Hourly pricing. [hyperbolic.ai]
- **Serverless Inference API**: OpenAI-compatible API to run models like Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek, SDXL, Flux, etc. Swap base URL and key with minimal code changes. [hyperbolic.ai]
- **AI Consulting Services**: Engineering support for setup, scaling, sharding, and debugging across training, fine-tuning, and inference. [hyperbolic.ai]

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Total Funding**: $19.73M (Series A: $12M in December 2024; Seed: $7M in July 2024; additional earlier rounds) [LinkedIn], [CB Insights]
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Variant, Polychain Capital, Chapter One, Faction, Bankless Ventures, Blockchain Builders Fund, and 29+ others. [CB Insights]
- **Growth Signals**: 200,000+ builders on the platform; claims 3–10x less expensive than inference competitors; presence in 5 countries (US, Singapore, Vietnam, France, South Korea). [hyperbolic.ai], [LinkedIn]
- **Key Metric**: Total funding $19.73M; no public revenue data.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Cost leadership**: 3–10x cheaper than competing inference providers, with no hidden fees or long-term commitments. [hyperbolic.ai]
- **Zero quota limits**: No artificial caps on GPU usage – provision instantly. [hyperbolic.ai]
- **Unique model support**: Only platform serving Llama-3.1-405B-Base in BF16 (high-precision) and FP8 (ultra-fast inference). Endorsed by Andrej Karpathy. [hyperbolic.ai]
- **Open-access ethos**: Focus on democratizing compute by aggregating underutilized GPUs (consumer-grade and data center), enabling AI development without vendor lock-in. [hyperbolic.ai/about]
- **Speed**: Deploy a cluster in under one minute; pay with credit card or crypto. [hyperbolic.ai]

## Strategic Focus
- **Scalability & automation**: Building the most automated platform to eliminate sales calls and friction. [hyperbolic.ai/about]
- **Open ecosystem**: Partnering with top research labs, institutions, and major AI/ML teams to advance open-source AI and open-access compute. [hyperbolic.ai/about]
- **Expanding model variety**: Continuously adding new state-of-the-art models and inference optimizations. [hyperbolic.ai]

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Emphasizes “open access, collaboration, innovation, and automation.” Founding story rooted in removing barriers for developers and researchers. [hyperbolic.ai/about]
- **Team**: Small (17 employees as of mid-2026), with a flat structure and hands-on roles. Engineering-centric (5 technical staff) plus growing GTM and product teams. [LinkedIn]
- **Remote/Hybrid**: HQ in San Francisco; employees across 5 countries – likely offers remote flexibility, though policy not explicitly stated. [LinkedIn]
- **Notable perks**: Work on cutting-edge AI infrastructure; direct impact on product; collaboration with top AI labs; use of latest GPUs (H100/H200). [hyperbolic.ai/about]
- **Caution**: Recent high-profile departures (co-founder/CTO Yuchen Jin, Head of Business Operations, and a founding AI engineer in April 2026) – candidates should investigate stability and leadership continuity. [LinkedIn]

## Sources
1. [Hyperbolic – Official Website](https://www.hyperbolic.ai/)
2. [Hyperbolic – About Page](https://www.hyperbolic.ai/about)
3. [Hyperbolic – LinkedIn Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hyperbolic-labs)
4. [Hyperbolic Labs – CB Insights Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/hyperbolic-labs)
5. [Hyperbolic – Careers Page (Ashby)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hyperbolic)

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