Why This Role Matters
We're looking for a Senior Technical Recruiter who loves building teams as much as building relationships. You'll be a strategic partner to hiring managers, a trusted guide for candidates, and an important part of how we grow. This role sits close to the work — you'll collaborate with engineering leaders and cross-functional teams to hire across our expanding technical disciplines, and you'll do it as part of a team that genuinely values curiosity, bold thinking, and collaboration.
This is an on-site role based in the Bay Area.
What You'll Do
- Own end-to-end recruiting across mechanical and electrical engineering, experimental physics, manufacturing, and other technical teams.
- Partner closely with leaders and engineers to understand what exceptional looks like for each role, well beyond the job description.
- Develop and maintain long-term relationships with talent across fusion, aerospace, defense, and adjacent deep tech fields.
- Advise hiring managers on interview structure, candidate evaluation, leveling, and compensation.
- Balance a portfolio of complex, specialized requisitions with equal care for quality and candidate experience.
- Keep pipelines healthy, data clean, and reporting actionable in our ATS.
- Help raise the bar on interview quality and consistency, supporting the team in making thoughtful, well-informed hiring decisions.
- Contribute to and improve recruiting processes as we scale.
- Serve as a trusted advocate for both candidates and hiring teams throughout the process.
What You Bring
- 5+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience.
- Background recruiting for specialized scientific, research, or hardware engineering roles.
- Intellectual curiosity about the work you recruit for, enough to ask sharp questions and spot strong candidates.
- A track record of building genuine trust with hiring managers and technical stakeholders.
- Comfort with ambiguity: talent pools without obvious sourcing channels and hiring managers still shaping what they need.
- Warmth, patience, and professionalism with every candidate, at every stage.
- Resourceful and persistent in finding the right people, even when the path isn't obvious.
- Energized by fast-moving environments where priorities evolve and no two days look the same.
Bonus Points For
- Passion for clean energy, deep tech, or mission-driven work.
- Experience recruiting in aerospace, energy, or advanced manufacturing.
- An existing network within physics, national lab, or deep tech engineering communities.
