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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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First seen Oct 29, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)