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title: 'Technical Recruiter at 10a Labs'
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# Technical Recruiter at 10a Labs

- **Company:** 10a Labs
- **Location:** Remote
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-15
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-20
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/10alabs/jobs/4454147009

## Job description

About 10a Labs: 10a Labs is the safety and threat-intelligence layer trusted by frontier AI labs, AI unicorns, Fortune 10 companies, and leading global technology platforms. Our adversarial red teaming, model evaluations, and intelligence collection enable engineering, safety, and security teams to stay ahead of evolving threats and deploy AI systems safely.

Location & Travel Expectations

We are primarily seeking candidates based in the Washington, DC, New York City, San Francisco Bay Area, and Denver metropolitan areas. Candidates hired in these locations will be expected to work from a 10a Labs office at least two days per week.

All new hires will participate in in-person onboarding in Washington, DC, New York City, or San Francisco during their first week. Occasional travel may also be required for interviews, in-person meetings, and other business needs.

About the Role: We are hiring a Technical Recruiter to architect and scale our talent engine and strengthen core people operations.

This is a high-ownership role focused primarily on recruiting exceptional technical and mission-driven talent in competitive markets. You will build talent pipelines across engineering, red teaming, research, product, operations, and specialized technical roles, and design the systems that enable them to succeed once hired.

You will work directly with leadership to shape hiring strategy and ensure we consistently hire exceptional talent.

What You’ll Own:

- Talent Acquisition
- Own full-cycle recruiting, including sourcing, interviewing, and onboarding.
- Build and execute proactive sourcing strategies for highly competitive AI and engineering markets.
- Develop structured interview processes and evaluation rubrics.
- Partner with hiring managers to define performance profiles and talent gaps.
- Drive candidate experience and closing strategy.
- Track recruiting metrics and continuously improve funnel performance and ATS workflows.
- Partner with leadership on workforce planning and hiring prioritization.
- People Operations & Infrastructure
- Contribute to improvements of structured onboarding programs
- Support performance review cycles and feedback systems.
- Implement and document SOPs for core processes.
- Coordinate with external vendors, legal counsel, and service providers.
- Identify bottlenecks and test new tools or workflows to boost efficiency.
- Contribute to and own other cross-functional, operational projects as the company continues to scale.

Required Qualifications:

- 3+ years in recruiting and operations, ideally at a high-growth startup.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.
- Demonstrated success recruiting both technical (e.g., ML engineers, software engineers, data scientists, etc.) and non-technical (e.g., researchers, threat investigators, etc.) roles in competitive markets.
- Strong outbound sourcing capability.
- Experience designing and implementing hiring processes, SOPs, onboarding programs, and process improvements.
- Comfort rolling up your sleeves, operating in ambiguity, and building systems from scratch.
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
- Familiarity with HR management systems, job boards, and applicant-tracking systems.
- Comfort working in fast-moving, high-impact environments, such as startups, AI research labs, or security-focused teams.

Desired Qualifications

- Experience recruiting in AI, cybersecurity, or mission-driven domains.
- Experience recruiting in the US and internationally.

## Benefits

- Competitive salary: USD $90k to $120k
- Room for growth with demonstrated success
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) plan
- Unlimited PTO
- Professional development stipend
- Remote work environment

Thank you for submitting your application. If there's a good fit, a member of the 10a Labs team will reach out to discuss next steps.

## About 10a Labs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: 10a Labs is an applied research and technology company providing AI security, threat intelligence, and independent safety evaluations for frontier AI models and major technology platforms.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Privately Held)
- **Headquarters**: Washington, D.C., United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Bobby McKenzie (Founder & CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI Security & Safety, Threat Intelligence, Research Services
- **Target customers**: Frontier AI labs, AI unicorns, Fortune 10 companies, and leading global technology platforms (B2B, Enterprise)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "The safety and threat-intelligence layer trusted by frontier AI labs... enabling engineering, safety, and security teams to stay ahead of evolving threats and deploy AI systems safely."

## Products & Services
- **Model Evaluations & Red Teaming**: Independent safety evaluations for frontier AI models, built for EU AI Act compliance and regulatory readiness. Includes scaled red teaming technology stress-testing generative and agentic AI systems against high-priority threats (CBRNE, Cyber Harms, Data Exfiltration, Model Distillation, Terrorism, Fraud, and more).
- **Threat Intelligence (Scout)**: Real-time monitoring for emerging threats to frontier AI systems, with proprietary threat intelligence delivered via API. Covers malicious tooling, novel abuse patterns, unauthorized access pathways, credential resale, jailbreaks, and dark web monitoring.
- **Model Defense & Integrity (Spartan)**: Advanced R&D in agentic AI systems, ML and RL model-distillation risks, and multimodal adversarial defenses to strengthen AI security and robustness.
- **Data Center Risk Analysis**: Assessment of risks to data centers stemming from geopolitical, regulatory, jurisdictional, and operational challenges.
- **Classification System**: A proprietary production ML pipeline with datasets and taxonomies informed by deep subject-matter expertise to detect emerging abuse patterns across text and other modalities.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Total headcount of approximately 36 employees (as of mid-2025), with strong growth (+172.2% year-over-year).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Clients include frontier AI labs, AI unicorns, Fortune 10 companies, and leading global technology platforms. Alumni have gone on to OpenAI, Microsoft, Verizon, and other tech leaders. Talent sourced from organizations like the U.S. Department of State, Columbia SIPA, and the United Nations University.
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid headcount growth (+172.2% YoY), 32 active job postings in mid-2025, quarterly job posting growth of +166.7% and yearly growth of +3100.0%, indicating aggressive expansion across multiple departments (Research, Engineering, Threat Investigation, Data, Operations).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Specialized Focus**: A rare company fully dedicated to AI safety, security, and threat intelligence for frontier models, serving as an independent, expert safety layer.
- **Deep Expertise**: Combines subject-matter expertise (e.g., CBRNE, cyber, terrorism) with proprietary ML pipelines and red teaming technology.
- **Trusted Client Base**: Serves the most advanced AI labs and largest tech platforms, providing a unique vantage point on emerging threats.
- **Regulatory Readiness**: Built to help clients comply with frameworks like the EU AI Act, positioning them as a critical partner in the evolving regulatory landscape.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling the Team**: Aggressively hiring across engineering, research, threat investigation, and operations to expand capacity.
- **Advancing R&D**: Deepening research into agentic AI risks, model distillation, and multimodal adversarial defenses.
- **Global Expansion**: Posting roles in multiple regions (US, UK, Australia, France), indicating international growth.
- **Product Development**: Continuing to build out their suite of safety, intelligence, and evaluation products (Scout, Spartan, Classification System).

## Why Work Here
- **High-Impact Mission**: Work directly on ensuring the safe deployment of the world's most advanced AI systems, addressing critical security and societal risks.
- **Compelling Compensation**: Salary ranges for technical roles are highly competitive (e.g., $255K–$405K + Equity for exceptional engineers, per a recent hiring post).
- **Rapid Growth Environment**: Join a company in a strong growth phase (+172% headcount growth), offering significant opportunities for impact and career advancement.
- **On-Site Collaborative Culture**: While some roles are remote, many positions are in-office (Washington D.C., San Francisco, London), emphasizing a collaborative, hands-on work environment.
- **Strong Talent Network**: Surrounded by colleagues from top institutions and government agencies (State Department, UN, Columbia SIPA, Michigan State), fostering a culture of expertise and mission-driven work.
- **Comprehensive Roles**: Opportunities span from hands-on red teaming and software engineering to research and operations, appealing to a wide range of skills and career paths.

## Sources
1. [10alabs.com](https://10alabs.com/)
2. [Built In - 10a Labs](https://builtin.com/company/10a-labs)
3. [LinkedIn - 10a Labs](https://www.linkedin.com/company/10a-labs)
4. [Greenhouse - 10a Labs Jobs](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/10alabs)

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