Space Kinetic Corp.

Senior Technical Recruiter

El Segundo, California · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$140k-$200kDetected 13 hours ago

RecruitingAvionicsSystems EngineeringRoboticsResearchLeadershipCommunication

About the role

This is not a role for someone looking for a traditional 40-hour work week.
The ideal candidate has experience scaling teams at venture-backed aerospace, defense, or deep-tech companies and understands how to identify, engage, and close world-class engineering talent in highly competitive markets.

Space Kinetic is seeking an experienced Technical Recruiter to help build the team that will redefine how humanity operates in space.
This individual will serve as a strategic talent partner to engineering and leadership teams, leading full-cycle recruiting efforts across highly technical disciplines including spacecraft systems, avionics, software, GNC, propulsion, manufacturing, test, and mission operations.
Own end-to-end recruiting processes across engineering, operations, and leadership roles.
Develop sourcing strategies to identify exceptional candidates from aerospace, defense, robotics, autonomous systems, and adjacent industries
Manage candidate pipelines from initial outreach through offer acceptance and onboarding
Build talent pipelines for critical technical functions including systems engineering, flight software, avionics, structures, manufacturing, propulsion, and mission operations
Partner closely with engineering leaders to define hiring needs, role requirements, and candidate evaluation criteria.
Develop structured interview processes that assess technical excellence, startup aptitude, and cultural alignment
Build and maintain recruiting processes, metrics, and reporting mechanisms that support company growth
Demonstrated experience building teams within the aerospace, defense, space, robotics, autonomous systems, or deep technology sectors

Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience
5+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, including experience hiring engineers and technical professionals
Track record of successfully hiring highly specialized technical talent in competitive markets
This role requires exceptional sourcing ability, strong technical fluency, and the ability to operate autonomously in a fast-paced startup environment.

Equity-Based Compensation
Highly Competitive PTO and Holiday Calendar
Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
Unique Performance-Based Bonus Structure
Serve as an ambassador for Space Kinetic's mission, culture, and technology vision

Space Kinetic is building ambitious, first-of-its-kind technology, and that requires urgency, ownership, and a high level of commitment to changing the foundational assumptions for everything we do in space.
Space Kinetic is a dual use space technology startup building a completely new architecture for space operations - one that brings the advantages of proliferated drone technology (low-cost, operationally flexible, attritable, distributed) to space missions while reducing the ecosystem's reliance on consumable fuel.
In a world where many companies are focused on incrementally improving the status quo, we are focused on creating something entirely different - an architecture underpinned by new first principles to meet the opportunities and challenges of the third space age head-on.
Our goal is to move away from one-to-one space architectures - where each satellite in a constellation has one (or a small # of) primary payloads attached to the bus -- and unlock a 'one-to-many' system, where each satellite has a large number of payloads which can be deployed from their host spacecraft at high velocities without firing a thruster.

Space Kinetic provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.
The annual base salary for this role is below.
Pay Grades are determined by role, level, location, and alignment with market data.
Individual pay will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: interviews and an assessment of several factors that are unique to each candidate, job-related skills, relevant education/experience, certifications, abilities of the candidate and internal equity.

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