Lead Technical Recruiter (Contract to Hire)

Exowatt•Miami, FL

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Exowatt is seeking a Lead Technical Recruiter to manage the full hiring cycle for critical engineering and technical positions. This role will partner with engineering and product leaders in Miami to build talent pipelines for challenging roles in hardware, mechanical, electrical, power systems, optical, controls, and firmware engineering. The recruiter will be responsible for sourcing, engaging, assessing, and closing top candidates in a competitive market, aiming to elevate the company's recruitment standards. This is a hands-on, in-office position based in the Miami headquarters, allowing the recruiter to work closely with the engineers they hire and gain a deep understanding of the technology. The role begins as a 1099 contract with the potential for full-time employment.

Requirements

6+ years of technical recruiting experience, with a demonstrated track record of sourcing, identifying, and closing top talent for hardware, mechanical, software, electrical, power systems, optical, controls, and firmware roles.
Understanding of the Miami, and Florida engineering talent market and local networks.
Deep experience recruiting for hardware and engineering-heavy organizations.
Proven ability to build pipelines for niche, senior, and hard-to-fill roles through direct sourcing, networking, referrals, and market mapping.
Strong closing skills: experience navigating complex offers, competing opportunities, relocations, and equity conversations.
Excellent judgment on candidate quality and the confidence to push back on hiring managers when it improves the outcome.
Highly organized and data-driven, with fluency in Lever, LinkedIn Recruiter, and modern sourcing tools.
Experience using AI tools, Claude specifically, to enhance productivity and efficiency.
Comfortable operating in a fast-moving, early-stage environment with shifting priorities and a high degree of ownership.
Based in the Miami, FL metro area and able to work on-site five days per week.
Able to travel to Exowatt's Austin, TX facility as needed.

Nice To Haves

Experience recruiting for climate tech, energy, solar, energy storage, or industrial hardware companies.
Experience hiring for manufacturing, test, and field engineering roles in addition to design engineering.
Experience as a first or early recruiting hire, building processes and infrastructure from scratch.
Familiarity with the Austin engineering talent market and local networks.

Responsibilities

Own full-cycle recruiting to include intake, sourcing, screening, interview coordination, offer negotiation, and close for technical roles spanning hardware, mechanical, software, electrical, power systems, optical, manufacturing, controls, and firmware engineering.
Build and execute creative sourcing strategies to reach passive candidates from hardware, energy, aerospace, automotive, semiconductor, robotics, and adjacent deep-tech industries.
Partner closely with hiring managers to define role requirements, calibrate on candidate profiles, and design structured, efficient interview processes.
Serve as a trusted advisor to engineering leadership on market conditions, compensation benchmarks, talent availability, and hiring strategy.
Deliver an exceptional candidate experience from first outreach through onboarding, representing Exowatt's mission and culture with credibility.
Manage a high-priority requisition load while maintaining rigor on quality and data hygiene in our ATS (Lever).
Track and report on pipeline health, funnel metrics, and time-to-fill; use data to identify bottlenecks and improve outcomes.
Help establish and refine recruiting processes, tooling, employer brand, and interviewer training as the team scales.
Travel periodically to our Austin facility to align and partner with other leadership and team members.