Vast
Senior Technical Recruiter
$122K–$165K
Long Beach, California, United States · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, including hardware or aerospace engineering roles.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
About the job
Own full-cycle recruiting for Vast Satellite, hiring technical and manufacturing talent for its high-power satellite program.
What you'll do
- Manage searches from intake through offer acceptance, including sourcing, candidate screening, pipeline tracking, and offer discussions.
- Advise hiring managers and executives on role requirements, interview plans, market conditions, and hiring priorities.
- Guide interview debriefs and decisions, maintain recruiting processes and ATS documentation, and report hiring progress to leadership.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, including hardware or aerospace engineering roles.
- Strong domain knowledge in at least one listed area: thermal, avionics, power, propulsion, GNC, flight software, or manufacturing.
- Experience managing multiple searches, advising senior leaders, and sourcing passive candidates; exposure to other technical disciplines or ability to ramp quickly.
Nice to have
- Recruiting experience across avionics, electrical engineering, thermal controls, power systems, propulsion, GNC, software, structures, manufacturing, production engineering, or hardware engineering.
- Experience in space, satellite, defense, or other regulated hardware industries; Greenhouse or similar ATS experience; or experience supporting rapid scale-up.
Pay
$122,000 — $165,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Greenhouse
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