Recruiting Manager, Engineering (Manufacturing)

Location: Torrance, California, United States

Salary: $127,520–$203,420 USD per year

Company

Advanced engineering and manufacturing company building production-ready systems for automotive, aerospace, defense, robotics, and other demanding industries.

What you will do

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of engineering and technical recruiters.
• Personally manage full-cycle recruiting for critical, senior-level, specialized, and difficult-to-fill engineering roles.
• Partner with engineering leaders and hiring managers on intake, candidate profiles, interview plans, sourcing strategies, and hiring priorities.
• Source and engage passive candidates through LinkedIn Recruiter, Greenhouse, referrals, targeted research, and networking.
• Monitor recruiting metrics, pipeline health, requisition aging, time to fill, offer acceptance, and recruiter capacity.
• Improve recruiting workflows through technology, automation, and AI-enabled tools while maintaining human oversight.

Requirements

• Ability to lawfully access information and technology subject to U.S. export controls.
• 8+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including significant engineering or highly technical recruiting.
• 2+ years of directly managing, leading, or formally developing recruiters.
• Demonstrated success sourcing and closing difficult-to-find engineering talent while managing an active requisition workload.
• Experience supporting engineering organizations in aerospace, automotive, advanced manufacturing, robotics, hardware, defense, industrial technology, or other deep-tech environments.
• Strong technical sourcing, stakeholder management, analytical, organizational, and communication skills; Greenhouse and LinkedIn Recruiter experience are strongly preferred.

Nice to have

• Recruiting experience across mechanical, electrical, manufacturing, automation and controls, software, materials, structures, test, or systems engineering.
• Experience in high-growth, startup, or rapidly scaling engineering organizations.
• Experience developing recruiting dashboards, capacity models, or hiring-performance reports.
• Experience implementing recruiting technology, automation, AI-enabled sourcing, or candidate-assessment tools.
• Experience recruiting for roles subject to U.S. export-control requirements.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive salary with equity and discretionary results-based incentive bonus opportunities.
• Paid vacation, sick time, company holidays, year-end shutdown, and paid parental leave.
• HMO and Premium PPO health plans, company-sponsored life insurance, and short- and long-term disability coverage.
• Learning and development reimbursement opportunities.
• Collaborative, high-performing, mission-driven environment focused on innovation and reducing the manufacturing footprint.