Senior Technical Recruiter (Aerospace)

Location: Playa Vista, California, United States — on-site, full-time

Salary: $110,000–$180,000 annual salary, commensurate with experience

Company

hirify.global is an orbital logistics company building reusable Earth-return vehicles for in-space manufacturing, on-orbit warehousing, commercial cargo, national security logistics, research payloads, and rapid global delivery.

What you will do

• Own full-cycle recruiting from intake and job description calibration through sourcing, screening, interviews, offers, and pre-onboarding.
• Build and maintain pipelines for mechanical, GNC/controls, avionics/embedded, software, manufacturing, integration, testing, and related technical roles.
• Partner with engineering and operations leaders to define profiles, create structured interview scorecards, train interviewers, and run consistent debriefs.
• Source candidates through LinkedIn Recruiter, referrals, targeted communities, events, and niche aerospace channels.
• Maintain accurate Greenhouse ATS stages, tags, and weekly pipeline reporting while improving time-to-hire, pass-through rates, and onsite-to-offer metrics.
• Calibrate compensation, prepare base/equity/bonus offers, close candidates, support referral and university initiatives, and assist with non-technical recruiting.

Requirements

• 6+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience with hands-on sourcing and closing.
• Experience recruiting in hardware-centric or deep-tech environments; aerospace experience is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated hiring experience across at least two technical areas, including test, GNC/controls, avionics/embedded systems, software, manufacturing/integration/test, reliability, or quality.
• Strong stakeholder partnership, structured interviewing, ATS reporting, pipeline analysis, and persuasive communication skills.
• Familiarity with ITAR/EAR export-control considerations in recruiting workflows and documentation.
• Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, protected individual under 22 C.F.R. § 120.15, or otherwise eligible to obtain required U.S. Department of State authorizations.

Nice to have

• Existing Southern California aerospace network.
• Experience scaling hiring from approximately 20 to 100+ hires per year.
• Campus or early-career program setup and event organization experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Incentive stock options.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Life, short-term, and long-term disability coverage.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Paid time off and paid holidays.
• Catered daily lunch, snacks, and coffee.