Recruiter Jobs in San Francisco, USA

Looking for a recruiter job in San Francisco? Choose from 120 open roles at 53 employers. Explore real salary data and skills breakdown across remote, hybrid and on-site roles.

120 Open roles
53 Companies hiring
171K Average salary

What do Recruiters and people teams in San Francisco work on?

The roles span the full people-team spectrum. At one end, full-cycle recruiters and sourcers manage candidate pipelines for technical, research, and general-and-administrative functions. A G&A Recruiter at Anthropic is expected to carry high requisition loads across Finance, Legal, and Operations simultaneously, while a Lead Sourcer at Chime Financial focuses on building pipelines for engineering and leadership roles using pipeline analysis and AI-enabled sourcing tools. At the other end, HR Business Partners and People Partners act as advisors to technical and non-technical leadership on performance management, employee relations, organisational design, and compensation. The People Partner, Engineering and People Partner, Research roles at Anthropic both require deep fluency with North American employment law and prior experience supporting fast-growing tech organisations. Compensation-focused roles, such as the GTM Compensation Lead at Notion, sit at the intersection of financial modelling, incentive design, and cross-functional planning. Director, Head, and Principal-level titles indicate that leadership and strategy work features prominently across the sample.

Skills and experience employers ask for

The skills counts reflect mentions in job descriptions across all postings on this page, not stated requirements, and the sample is one snapshot in time. Notably, terms associated with AI products — agents, evaluation, and LLMs — appear frequently, suggesting many employers want recruiters and people partners who are comfortable understanding or discussing technical AI work. Programming languages such as Python and PyTorch appear in a minority of postings, likely tied to roles that recruit for or sit within engineering and research teams.

Agents 29%
Evaluation 14%
LLMs 8%
Publications 7%
Statistics 6%
APIs 6%
Python 5%
Go 5%
PhD 5%
PyTorch 4%
Computer vision 3%
Reinforcement learning 3%
SQL 3%
Java 3%

Recruiter roles that state a salary

The employers' own advertised ranges, for individual roles at different levels — not an average and not a market rate.

San Francisco office, hybrid or remote?

Most postings in this set specify onsite work, with a meaningful share stating hybrid arrangements. Only a very small number are listed as fully remote. The People Partner, G&A at Anthropic specifies a minimum of twenty-five per cent office time, which is one of the few postings that states a precise in-office threshold. No postings have an unknown work mode, so candidates can treat the stated arrangement as reliable for every listing here, though specific days and schedules are not always detailed in the summaries.

Make your application specific to the work

  1. Check the work-mode first Most roles on this page require regular or full-time onsite presence in San Francisco; confirm the arrangement before applying, as remote options are limited in these postings.
  2. Match your specialism to the role type These postings split across sourcing, full-cycle recruiting, HR business partnering, and compensation — tailor your application materials to the specific function rather than sending a general people-team CV.
  3. Prepare for AI-context questions Terms like agents, evaluation, and LLMs appear in a notable share of descriptions, so be ready to demonstrate familiarity with AI product areas, even if the role itself is not technical.
  4. Note seniority and pay together A minority of postings advertise pay ranges; where a range is shown, it corresponds to a specific title and employer, so do not use one posting's figures as a benchmark for a different role on the page.

Questions about Recruiter jobs in San Francisco

Only a subset of postings on this page include advertised ranges. Among those that do, the figures vary widely by seniority and specialism. For example, an Executive Recruiter role at Lambda lists 210,000–280,000 and a Senior Technical Recruiter role at Decagon lists 180,000–240,000. These are individual advertised ranges from specific postings, not a city-wide benchmark.

A very small number of postings in this set are listed as fully remote. The majority require onsite presence, and a meaningful share specify hybrid arrangements. You should check the individual posting for the exact requirement.

It depends on the specific role. Some postings, particularly those focused on technical sourcing or recruiting for engineering and research teams, mention familiarity with engineering stacks and AI concepts. Others, such as HR business partner or compensation roles, focus on HR expertise, employment law knowledge, and stakeholder management rather than technical skills.

Anthropic has the largest number of postings among employers listed on this page, followed by OpenAI, Decagon, and Harvey. Other employers with multiple postings include Snorkel AI, Amazon, Notion, and Exa.

The postings cover a wide range of levels. Senior and executive-level roles each account for a notable share of those with a stated seniority, and there are also director, lead, and manager titles. A small number of intern postings appear, including an undergraduate science recruiting internship. A large portion of postings do not state a seniority level explicitly.

Jobs checked 1 hour ago. · Guide reviewed 9 September 2026.