Technical Recruiter – Hardware
Golden · USD 120,000-150,000 / year · 3+ years experience · Full-time · Onsite · Posted Oct 9, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 3+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Location
- Golden
- Salary
- USD 120,000-150,000 / year
Responsibilities
- Conduct phone screens, assess technical alignment, and manage candidate communication throughout the full interview lifecycle.
- Partner closely with hiring managers and the internal recruiting team, providing market insights and recommendations to improve hiring outcomes.
Requirements
- 3+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, with a strong focus on hardware and engineering roles, ideally in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
- Demonstrated strength in proactive sourcing, including LinkedIn Recruiter, advanced Boolean search techniques, and creative approaches to identifying and engaging passive candidates.
- Experience recruiting technical talent across hardware and product engineering disciplines, including mechanical engineering, electrical/electronics, embedded systems, firmware, RF/wireless, systems engineering, and hardware test.
- Strong understanding of hardware engineering concepts and technologies, including CAD, GD&T, PCB design, signal integrity, power electronics, and complex electromechanical systems.
- Ability to understand and translate highly technical requirements into effective sourcing strategies, including specialized areas such as embedded C/C++, RTOS, microcontrollers, FPGA, RF systems, antennas, and EMI/EMC.
- Familiarity with engineering verification and validation processes, hardware test methodologies, and environmental testing.
- Experience recruiting within aerospace, space, satellite, defense, or adjacent complex hardware/deep-tech industries.
- Proven ability to build and maintain strong talent pipelines for specialized hardware engineering positions in competitive markets.
- Ability to effectively pitch Loft’s mission, culture, and technical challenges to highly specialized, passive candidates.
- Proficiency with ATS tools (Lever preferred), including maintaining accurate and up-to-date pipelines.
Preferred qualifications
- Direct experience recruiting for satellite systems, avionics, GNC, RF engineering, hardware test, or assembly, integration, and test (AI&T) positions.
- Familiarity with spacecraft hardware development, electronics manufacturing, PCB design, and satellite production environments.
- Experience recruiting globally, with knowledge of both US and European aerospace and hardware engineering talent ecosystems.
- Familiarity with ITAR, EAR, and compliance considerations relevant to US-based space and defense hiring.
- Prior work in or close partnership with startup or high-growth aerospace companies.
- Background in agency recruiting or experience managing multiple specialized technical searches simultaneously.
- Skilled at using social platforms like LinkedIn to enhance employer brand and attract niche technical talent.
- Comfort reporting on recruiting metrics, pipeline health, and sourcing performance.
Benefits
- 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance option for employees and dependents
- Flexible Spending (FSA) and Health Savings (HSA) Accounts offered with an employer contribution to the HSA
- 100% employer paid Life, AD&D, Short-Term, and Long-Term Disability insurance
- Flexible Time Off policy for vacation and sick leave, and 12 paid holidays
- 401(k) plan and equity options
- Daily catered lunches and snacks
- International exposure to our team in France
- Fully paid parental leave; 14 weeks for primary caregiver and 10 weeks for secondary caregiver
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- Relocation assistance when applicable
Skills
- LinkedIn Recruiter
- Boolean Search
- CAD
- GD&T
- PCB Design
- Embedded C/C++
- RTOS
- Microcontrollers
- FPGA
- RF Systems
- Antennas
- EMI/EMC
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