People Operations Specialist

About Liquid AI

Spun out of MIT CSAIL, we build general-purpose AI systems that run efficiently across deployment targets, from data center accelerators to on-device hardware, ensuring low latency, minimal memory usage, privacy, and reliability. We partner with enterprises across consumer electronics, automotive, life sciences, and financial services. We are scaling rapidly and need exceptional people to help us get there.

The Opportunity

Our People team shapes how Liquid AI grows and how we look after our people, across the US and around the world. Every moment in someone's time here depends on HR data and operations that are right the first time: their offer, their first day, a move to a new country, a visa, a pay review, their last day.

You'll own that data and the operations that run on it, reporting to our Head of People Operations and working closely with the engineers on our People team who are building our internal operating system. This is a hands-on operator role, not an HR business partner role.

This role will be based in our SF office, with expectations of 3-4 days in office.

What We're Looking For

We need someone who:

• Catches what doesn't match: You notice when a record is off, see how one change affects everything downstream, and fix it at the source.
• Gets it done without being chased: You move through a high volume of work at pace without letting quality slip, make the calls you can, and know when to escalate.
• Treats every record as a person: You pitch in wherever the team needs you, no task too small, and you handle sensitive information with care because getting the details right is how we look after our team.

The Work

• Own our HR data: keep HR, payroll and headcount records accurate and matching across systems, run regular checks, and fix errors where they start
• Run every employee lifecycle event end to end, from onboarding and offboarding admin to contractor conversions, moves between states or countries, contract amendments, salary changes, leaves and visa updates (with our outside immigration counsel), so each is touched once and right in every system
• Run benefits operations: lead open enrollment, keep plan documents current, and work with our broker on renewals and compliance
• Act as day-to-day admin and escalation point for our HRIS, payroll, benefits and global EOR providers, and push open issues until they close
• Benchmark roles against market data, model the full cost of offers and changes across countries, and prepare accurate offer letters consistent with approved terms
• Be the main beta tester for our internal operating system, running new features against real cases with the engineers until they're right, and help run cross-functional People projects such as our coworking weeks

Experience & Capabilities

What you'll need:

• Experience in People Operations, HR operations or payroll, including at an early-stage startup or on a small team where you covered a bit of everything
• Hands-on admin experience with a modern HRIS (Rippling, Workday, Deel or similar), including owning the data and processing onboarding, offboarding and employee changes in it
• Experience supporting employees across multiple US states and countries
• Working knowledge of US benefits and compliance (open enrollment, ERISA, COBRA)
• Strong spreadsheet and analysis skills for comp benchmarks, cost models and headcount reporting, and the habit of checking your own numbers

Helpful, not required:

• A background in finance, accounting or payroll
• Experience with US immigration processes (H-1B, O-1, green cards) alongside outside counsel
• Experience with comp benchmarking tools such as Pave or Carta
• Experience at an early stage start-up

What Success Looks Like (Year One)

• HR, payroll and headcount records match across every system, with regular checks that catch errors before anyone else does
• Every employee change, benefits cycle and vendor issue is owned and closed by you, tracked in one place
• Leadership relies on your comp benchmarking and offer cost models without re-checking them
• Our internal operating system has a tight feedback loop with you as its main tester

What We Offer

• Shape how we look after our people: You'll own the details behind every key moment in someone's time at Liquid AI, and help shape the internal tools our People engineers are building to run them.
• Compensation & Equity: Competitive base salary plus equity, so you share in what we build. Final offers reflect skills, experience, and location.
• Time Off: Unlimited PTO, plus company-wide Refill Days, long weekends when the whole company rests together.
• Health & Wellbeing: Comprehensive health coverage, with details varying by location.
• Paid Leave: Paid leave for pregnancy, parenting, medical needs, and caring for family.