Senior Technical Recruiter

Salient Motion • Torrance, CA

5d • $145,000 - $165,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Salient Motion is seeking a Senior Technical Recruiter to serve as the primary on-site recruiting presence as the company scales. This individual will own full-cycle recruiting for core engineering requisitions, manage a significant portion of the current hiring load, and operate independently. The role requires partnering with engineering leadership, proactively sourcing passive candidates in specialized fields, managing the candidate experience, refining hiring processes, and tracking key metrics. The position also involves navigating compliance considerations for defense-adjacent hiring. This is a high-ownership, high-visibility individual contributor role with influence over hiring strategies.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizen or PERM required due to ITAR Compliance
• 5+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, with a track record of hiring hardware, mechanical, electrical, robotics, or embedded software engineers
• Demonstrated success sourcing and closing passive candidates for hard-to-fill, specialized technical roles
• Prior experience operating with a high degree of autonomy, ideally supporting a recruiting function while a manager worked remotely or across multiple sites
• Strong presence and sound judgment; comfortable being the go-to recruiting voice in the room with engineering leadership
• Comfort operating in a startup environment with high ownership, ambiguity, and limited process; you build what doesn't exist yet
• Strong ability to partner with technical hiring managers, translate engineering requirements into sourcing strategy, and act as a trusted advisor
• Excellent communication and organizational skills; able to manage multiple searches simultaneously and prioritize under a high-growth hiring load
• Experience with ATS platforms (e.g., Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby) and modern sourcing tools
• Must be willing and able to work on-site consistently; this role is the in-office anchor for the recruiting function

Nice To Haves

• Experience recruiting in aerospace, defense, robotics, automotive, or other hardware-intensive industries strongly preferred

Responsibilities

• Own full-cycle recruiting for critical and complex requisitions, primarily core engineering roles across hardware, embedded/firmware, controls, mechanical design, robotics, and software engineering.
• Take on a significant share of the team's current recruiting load, adding capacity as we scale rapidly.
• Serve as the senior, on-site point of contact for recruiting; run day-to-day operations independently.
• Partner directly with engineering leadership to scope roles, define hiring criteria, and build role-specific sourcing strategies.
• Proactively source and engage passive candidates in aerospace, defense, robotics, and advanced motion/controls, building talent pipelines in a niche, high-demand field.
• Manage the candidate experience end-to-end: screening, interview coordination, feedback loops, offer negotiation, and closing.
• Build and refine hiring processes, interview scorecards, and structured interview loops to support rapid headcount growth.
• Track and report on pipeline health, time-to-fill, and hiring funnel metrics, flagging risks and bottlenecks proactively.
• Navigate compliance considerations relevant to defense-adjacent hiring (e.g., US person requirements and export control awareness) in partnership with Legal/People.

Benefits

• Relocation assistance
• Great benefits
• Equity
• Exceptional healthcare benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision) - Medical is 100% covered by the company
• Flexible PTO Policy
• 401K

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed