--- title: 'Recruiter (Research) at White Circle' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/recruiter-research-white-circle-remote-1vekq2rdfrvz' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-05' --- # Recruiter (Research) at White Circle - **Company:** White Circle - **Location:** Remote - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-08-10 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/whitecircle/ac4e2904-67b6-46d1-9426-34c2a3faa61c ## Job description TL;DR: We’re looking for an AI Research Recruiter who knows where exceptional AI Researchers and engineers can be found. You’ll own full-cycle hiring across research, machine learning, data, evaluations, and ML infrastructure, helping us build one of the strongest teams in AI safety. ## ABOUT US White Circle https://whitecircle.ai is an AI Safety company building the safety, reliability, and optimization layer for AI systems. At the core of our platform are policies – simple natural-language rules that define what an AI model should and shouldn’t do. We automatically test, enforce, and continuously improve these policies at scale. - We’ve raised $11M from top funds, founders, and senior leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, HuggingFace, Mistral, DeepMind, Datadog, Sentry, and others - We process over one hundred million API calls every month - We fine-tune and train our own LLMs so they run faster and cheaper than any open or proprietary model We’re a small, highly focused team. If you want to work deeply on hard problems, see your work ship to production quickly, and influence how AI safety is actually built – you’re the one we need. ## YOU WILL: - Own full-cycle recruitment for ML/AI Research, Multimodal ML Engineer, Research Scientist (AI Behaviours, Evals, Agentic Systems), and ML Infra roles - Develop a deep understanding of White Circle’s research agenda, technical challenges, and the profiles required to solve them - Source talent from AI labs, research organisations, technical startups, universities, open-source communities, and relevant scientific networks - Understand the differences between Research Scientists, Research Engineers, Applied ML Engineers, and ML infra Engineers & assess candidates accordingly - Evaluate candidates’ actual contributions - Engage researchers and engineers who are not actively looking for a new role and communicate why White Circle’s problems are technically meaningful - Design structured hiring processes that assess research depth, engineering ability, originality, and real-world impact - Deliver an exceptional candidate experience, including for candidates navigating multiple highly competitive opportunities - Track recruiting performance and continuously improve sourcing strategies, processes, tools, and workflows - Support hiring outside your primary stream when business priorities require it YOU’LL FIT RIGHT IN IF YOU: - Have 2+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including significant experience hiring Research and ML talent - Have personally hired for several roles comparable to Research Scientist, Research Engineer, ML Research Engineer, Applied Scientist, Multimodal ML Engineer, or ML Infrastructure Engineer - Understand what these roles do and how their responsibilities, technical depth, and candidate pools differ - Can confidently discuss LLM training and fine-tuning, inference, evaluations, data pipelines, model behaviour, multimodal learning, agent systems, and ML infra - Can interpret technical profiles beyond keywords, job titles, or company names - Know how to assess the significance of a candidate’s publications, open-source work, models, datasets, experiments, and production systems - Understand where exceptional AI research talent can be found and how to reach candidates who are not visible through conventional sourcing channels - Participate in or closely follow AI research and engineering communities - Can build credibility with highly technical candidates and communicate nuanced research problems accurately - Have experience recruiting across the US and European markets - Can act as a trusted talent advisor to technical hiring managers and research leadership - Are comfortable operating with ambiguity and continuously refining profiles as research priorities evolve - Are willing and able to recruit beyond Research roles when needed - Speak and write fluent English (C1+) A big plus: - Experience recruiting for a frontier AI lab, AI safety org, research-focused startup, or leading AI company - A strong existing network among AI researchers, research engineers, and ML infra specialists - Experience sourcing through publications, conference programs, citations, GitHub, open-source projects, research communities, and academic labs - A technical or research background in computer science, machine learning, mathematics, or a related field - Experience recruiting for an early-stage startup where the research direction and hiring requirements evolve quickly ## WHY WHITE CIRCLE - Meaningful equity package - Paid time off in line with your local regulations, no matter where you work from - All the hardware, tools, and services you need - Covered subscriptions for AI agents - Team off-sites twice a year: we’ve recently been to the Alps and to Saint-Tropez ## HOW WE HIRE 1. Introductory call with Head of People (25 min) 2. Take-home test 3. Final conversation with our CEO & Research Lead (45 min) Please submit your application in English. ## About White Circle ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: White Circle is a control layer for AI in production, providing safety, security, evals, and performance optimization through a unified API. - **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage) - **Headquarters**: Dover, Delaware, United States (operational hub in Paris, France) - **Founded**: 2025 - **Founders**: Denis Shilov (Founder & CEO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: AI Governance, AI Security, AI Observability - **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise (companies deploying AI agents, chatbots, or LLM-powered applications) - **Mission or purpose**: To give organisations visibility into how their AI behaves, help them respond when things go wrong, and provide a unified system for improving reliability, safety and compliance. ## Products & Services - **White Circle Platform**: A single API that integrates three layers: - **Protect**: Custom low-latency guardrails for blocking unsafe inputs, preventing jailbreaks, detecting prompt injections, PII leakage, and sensitive data leaks. - **Observe**: Real-time analytics including topic classification, user behavior clustering, custom metrics, error rate analysis, sentiment analysis, and risk scoring. - **Improve**: Model routing, dynamic prompt engineering, context enrichment, and automated optimization based on labelled user feedback. - **CircleGuardBench**: A proprietary benchmark for evaluating AI moderation models across harm detection, jailbreak resistance, false positives, and latency. - **KillBench**: A benchmark of hidden LLM biases in critical decisions (life-and-death scenarios). ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: $11M raised in seed funding (announced May 2026) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by prominent AI and technology leaders including Romain Huet (ex-Head of Product @DeepMind), Dirk Kingma (Anthropic), Guillaume Lample (Mistral), Thomas Wolf (Hugging Face), Olivier Pomel (Datadog), François Chollet (Keras), Mehdi Ghissassi (ex-DeepMind), Paige Bailey (DeepMind), and David Cramer (Sentry). - **Growth Signals**: - 21 employees (+283.3% YoY, +9.5% monthly growth) - Monthly website traffic: 32,090 visits (+682.7% yearly) - Active job postings: 6 (monthly job posting growth +20%) - SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA compliant - Operates in 7 countries (France, Russia, Netherlands, Serbia, Switzerland, Georgia, Spain) ## Competitive Advantages - **Proprietary self-adjusting models** optimized for low-latency and high performance - **Unified platform** that combines safety, security, evaluation, and performance optimization – no need for multiple point solutions - **Enterprise-grade compliance** (SOC 2 Type II & HIPAA) - **Strong network effects** from backing by leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, Hugging Face, and Datadog - **Automated red-teaming** and continuous improvement through user feedback ## Strategic Focus - Accelerate product development and expand the team across the US, UK, and Europe - Grow global customer base across healthcare, finance, hiring, and security verticals - Continue building benchmarks (CircleGuardBench, KillBench) to shape AI safety standards - Maintain deep integration with the AI open-source ecosystem ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: “Smart, friendly, and fun” team with a strong engineering and research focus (43% technical staff) - **Location**: Based in Paris, France with a hybrid work model (office + remote) - **Benefits**: - Strong salary - 20 paid days off (plus ability to take more for recovery) - Free education (company covers learning costs) - Team offsites several times a year - **Open roles** (June 2026): QA Engineer, Product Engineer (Backend), DevOps Engineer, Product Designer, AI Engineer (Audio), Data Engineer - **Impact**: Build the future of AI safety at a well-funded, high-growth startup with world-class investors ## Sources 1. [whitecircle.ai](https://whitecircle.ai) 2. [whitecircle.ai/careers](https://whitecircle.ai/careers) 3. [LinkedIn – White Circle](https://www.linkedin.com/company/whitecircle) 4. [Tech.eu – White Circle lands $11M](https://tech.eu/2026/05/12/white-circle-lands-11m-to-help-companies-secure-ai-systems/) ## Other roles at White Circle - [Finance Lead](https://feeny.ai/job/finance-lead-white-circle-us-san-francisco-or-s3jtsbzkwt7f) — US San Francisco OR, NY - [Product Brand Designer](https://feeny.ai/job/product-brand-designer-white-circle-us-san-francisco-or-3v7jkx8gskhf) — US San Francisco OR, NY - [Founding Account Executive](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-account-executive-white-circle-us-san-francisco-or-rns9xb4d5gj6) — US San Francisco OR, NY - [DevOps Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/devops-engineer-white-circle-paris-y84p4fve5nn1) — Paris, France - [Founding Events Lead](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-events-lead-white-circle-new-york-wczngn43ffxc) — New York, NY - [Partnerships Manager](https://feeny.ai/job/partnerships-manager-white-circle-london-c3ep31m67xse) — • London, United Kingdom - [Senior Data Labeler](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-data-labeler-white-circle-paris-vtp78vea9yp4) — Paris, France - [AI Red Team Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/ai-red-team-engineer-white-circle-j1xbb74qxv2e) — •, United States - [ML Infrastructure Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/ml-infrastructure-engineer-white-circle-paris-cjvfwvec3k00) — Paris, France - [Multimodal ML Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/multimodal-ml-engineer-white-circle-paris-kd1xveq65a91) — Paris, France