Technical Recruiter

Icarus

<p>Icarus was founded on the belief that the Stratosphere is the <a href="https://henryicarus.substack.com/p/the-forgotten-frontier?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ee;">Forgotten Frontier</span></strong></a> and that reclaiming it will define the next era of aerospace and what is possible from the sky. We build solar-powered aircraft that fly at 60,000 ft for weeks at a time, delivering persistent, affordable, and scalable presence from this layer of the atmosphere.</p> <h2 style="color: #0000ee;">Mission</h2> <p>Re-establish and maintain dominance in the Stratosphere.</p> <h2 style="color: #0000ee;">What you’ll do</h2> <ul> <li>Own full-cycle recruiting for our engineering and manufacturing roles, from intake through close.</li> <li>Source creatively to build a deep pipeline, identifying talent from aerospace, robotics, and hardware companies and continuously growing that network.</li> <li>Write outreach that senior engineers actually answer, and carry those candidates through the process yourself.</li> <li>Partner with hiring managers to define what strong looks like before the first screen, and build the scorecards and interview loops that hold that bar.</li> <li>Own and report the funnel. Track pipeline KPIs, find where candidates fall out, and fix it.</li> <li>Close exceptional engineers against offers from larger, better-capitalized companies. You will need to pitch the mission honestly and well.</li> <li>Develop a deep understanding of what we build, enough to be credible with the engineers you are recruiting.</li> <li>Improve the recruiting function as you run it. You are our first dedicated recruiter, and you will define how this works as we scale.</li> </ul> <h2 style="color: #0000ee;">What we’re looking for</h2> <ul> <li>2+ years of full lifecycle technical recruiting experience at a hardware company, or hiring mechanical, electrical, embedded, or software engineers.</li> <li>Experience owning and managing a high-volume req load.</li> <li>Demonstrated sourcing ability. You can point to specific senior engineers you found, engaged, and closed — not requisitions you filled from inbound applicants.</li> <li>Genuine technical curiosity. You do not need an engineering degree, but you do need to be the kind of person who reads the spec sheet.</li> <li>Comfort operating without process and building it as you go. Our recruiting function is early; you will be defining it.</li> <li>Fluency with data. You track funnel metrics, diagnose bottlenecks, and use numbers to argue for changes.</li> <li>A serious commitment to feedback and growth.</li> <li>The drive to perform in a fast-paced, high-intensity environment.</li> </ul> <h2 style="color: #0000ee;">Why Icarus</h2> <ol> <li>Meaningful equity</li> <li>Top market salary and bonuses</li> <li>Health, dental, and vision insurance</li> <li>Factory in El Segundo</li> <li>Real ownership, real hardware, real flight</li> <li>Small team, massive responsibility (but growing very fast)</li> <li>High signal (engineering) to noise (management) culture</li> <li>Dream desk setup</li> <li>Daily lunch</li> <li>Unlimited celsius</li> </ol> <h2 style="color: #0000ee;">This is not a normal recruiting job</h2> <ol> <li>We are pioneers, not corporate managers. Icarus deliberately optimizes for a high signal (engineering) to noise (management) ratio, where

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