Recruitment Coordinator
Evolution
Staff Hardware Recruiter
Shield AI
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $120,000 - $180,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Manage full-cycle recruitment for Electrical, Mechanical, and cross-disciplinary hardware roles across multiple programs.
- Partner with hiring managers and engineering leadership to define role requirements, hiring strategies, and interview processes.
- Proactively source top hardware engineering talent from both traditional aerospace and adjacent industries (autonomous vehicles, robotics, defense, etc.).
- Build and maintain strong candidate pipelines for critical and niche hardware roles.
- Drive exceptional candidate experience from first outreach to close.
- Leverage data and recruiting metrics to advise stakeholders and continuously improve processes.
- Collaborate with People Ops and HRBPs on offer strategy, leveling, and compensation alignment.
- Represent the company at technical events, conferences, and university programs to strengthen brand awareness.
Requirements
- 5+ years of technical recruiting experience, including full-cycle ownership of hardware or systems engineering roles.
- Proven success hiring in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related hardware domains.
- Experience recruiting within aerospace, defense, robotics, or autonomous systems industries strongly preferred.
- Strong understanding of hardware product lifecycles — from concept and design to integration and production.
- Comfortable sourcing highly specialized talent (e.g., RF, power systems, PCB design, test & validation, structures, or propulsion).
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; confident advising technical leaders and executives.
- Passion for recruiting in a high-growth, mission-oriented environment.
Benefits
- Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
- Temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
technical recruitingfull-cycle recruitmenthardware engineeringsystems engineeringsourcing specialized talentRF designpower systemsPCB designtest & validationpropulsion
Soft skills
communication skillsstakeholder managementcandidate experiencecollaborationadvising technical leadersprocess improvementstrategic thinkingrelationship buildingproblem-solvingpassion for recruiting
