Senior Technical Recruiter, Production Engineering (contract)

Anduril Anduril · Defense · Costa Mesa, CA · People : Talent Acquisition : Recruiting

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company seeking a Senior Technical Recruiter to scale their Production Engineering team. This contract role involves full-cycle recruiting, talent mapping, and collaborating with leaders to define hiring needs and improve processes. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in high-volume talent acquisition, stakeholder management, and recruiting for hardware, production, or manufacturing engineering roles, preferably in agency or startup environments.

What you'd actually do

  1. Act as a subject matter expert in prospecting techniques and tools used for information retrieval, data extraction, web-scraping, continuous process improvement, process automation, and candidate management
  2. Own and drive hiring strategy full-cycle, providing effective, clear communication and reporting
  3. Conduct a high volume of interviews, demonstrating ability to anticipate and influence hiring manager preferences through successful interview-to-offer conversion ratios
  4. Engage and source passive candidates using LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean strings, referrals and SOBO campaigns
  5. Build talent maps to generate market insights to inform your engagement strategy

Skills

Required

  • 6+ years of high-volume talent acquisition experience
  • 3+ years of experience working with senior level leaders
  • Experience recruiting for Hardware, Production, or Manufacturing Engineering roles
  • Experience recruiting at an agency and fast-paced startup
  • Prospecting techniques and tools
  • Information retrieval
  • Data extraction
  • Web-scraping
  • Process automation
  • Candidate management
  • Full-cycle recruiting
  • Interviewing
  • Sourcing passive candidates
  • LinkedIn Recruiter
  • Boolean strings
  • Talent mapping
  • Market insights
  • Diverse talent sourcing
  • Candidate experience management
  • Brand representation
  • Value proposition selling

Nice to have

  • Knowledge of ITAR policies
  • Consultative guidance
  • Clear and effective communication with candidates
  • Managing high-volume pipelines
  • Highly autonomous
  • Collaborative
  • Adaptable

What the JD emphasized

  • 6+ years of high-volume talent acquisition experience evaluating and hiring top tier talent
  • 3+ years of experience working with senior level leaders and stakeholders, reporting on progress, creating and advising on talent strategies
  • Experience recruiting at an agency and fast-paced startup, hiring exempt roles for Hardware, Production, or Manufacturing Engineering