Recursive
Recursive Superintelligence develops artificial intelligence systems designed to autonomously improve their own capabilities through recursive self-learning processes. The company focuses on building AI models and frameworks that can iteratively refine their performance without direct human intervention, targeting the automation of the full AI development lifecycle. Its technology aims to handle t
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Roles are read from Recursive’s Ashby every hour and disappear here as soon as they close there.
Recursive hiring insights
Counted from every role read from its board, compared with every startup listed on firsthires.live.
Key findings
- Recursive has the 930th most open roles of 2,940 startups hiring on firsthires.live.
- 8 open roles is 0.8× the average Series A startup here (10.3).
- 75% of openings are in Engineering, then Marketing (13%).
- Most roles are mid level (63%). None are tagged for graduates or interns.
- With a team of about 61, these openings would grow headcount by up to 13%.
- Median posted pay of $288k is 74% above the Series A startup median ($165k).
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- Engineering pay here (median $319k) is 74% above the market median for Engineering ($184k).
- 63% of its roles post pay, against 42% across all listed startups.
- 0% of its roles are fully remote (market: 23%).
- 8 roles added in the last 30 days; 0 closed in the last 90.
- A typical open listing here is 8 days old, against 2 months across the site.
Hiring momentum
50 is flat. Blends the 4-week change, the 12-week trend and net roles added.
- Added, last 4 weeks
- 00%
- vs 0 in the 4 weeks before
- Added last week
- 00%
- Week before: 0
- Weekly trend
- +0.00
- Roles/week, per week · R² 0.00
- Net roles, 4 weeks
- +0
- 0 added − 0 closed
- Forecast this week
- 0
- Holt exponential smoothing
- Average week
- 0.0
- σ 0.0 · CV —
- 4-week refresh rate
- 0%
- New roles ÷ open roles
- 4-week churn
- 0%
- Closed roles ÷ open roles
- Median time listed
- >90 days
- 0% close within 30 days
Momentum, explained
- Recursive hasn’t added enough roles in the last few months to read a trend yet.
Hiring history
- Roles ever listed here
- 8
- Roles added in 30 days
- 8
- Roles added in 90 days
- 8
- Roles closed in 90 days
- 0
- Tracked since
- Oct 2026
- Rank by open roles
- #930
- of 2,940 hiring startups
- Openings per current employee
- 0.13
Volume and freshness
- Open roles
- 8
- Listed in the last 7 days
- 0
- 0% of open roles
- Listed in the last 30 days
- 8
- 100% of open roles
- Typical listing age
- 8 days
- Oldest: 8 days
Pay
- Median posted pay
- $288k
- Annual USD, range midpoint
- Middle half of pay
- $288k–$350k
- 25th to 75th percentile
- Roles that post pay
- 63%
- 5 of 8
- Mention equity
- 0%
Work, level and access
- Fully remote
- 0%
- Say they sponsor visas
- 0
- Graduate and intern roles
- 0
- Median experience asked
- 2 yrs
Breakdowns
- 1Engineering675%
- 2Marketing113%
- 3Operations113%
- 1Mid level563%
- 2Staff338%
- 1Not stated8100%
- 1San Francisco788%
- 2London113%
- 1Full-time8100%
- 1General Research / Engineering675%
- 2Operations225%
Pay is each role’s posted range converted to annual US dollars, midpoint. See every Recursive role.