# Staff Hardware Recruiter

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: Remote
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $120,000-180,000 per year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai/7866a552-dd2f-4e81-89cd-67a52d1bbb39?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_59a45abf-0db

## Description

We are looking for a highly strategic and execution-focused Staff Hardware Recruiter to help scale some of the most critical engineering organisations within the company.

This person will own full-cycle recruiting for complex hardware engineering functions with a particular emphasis on Electrical Engineering, Power Systems, Avionics, and other highly specialised technical domains supporting next-generation aerospace and autonomous systems development.

### Responsibilities

- Own full-cycle recruiting for highly specialised hardware engineering roles across Electrical Engineering, Power Electronics, Embedded Systems, Avionics, PCB Design, Power Distribution, RF, Systems Integration, and related technical domains

- Partner directly with engineering leadership and hiring managers to define hiring strategy, interview processes, and prioritisation plans aligned to business objectives

- Build and execute proactive sourcing strategies for difficult-to-find technical talent across aerospace, defence, automotive, robotics, energy, and adjacent industries

- Act as a strategic advisor to leadership on market trends, talent availability, compensation competitiveness, and hiring risks

- Drive strong operational rigor across pipeline management, funnel health, data accuracy, and stakeholder communication

- Help influence workforce planning and ensure hiring activity remains aligned to approved business priorities

- Improve recruiting scalability through process improvements, documentation, interview calibration, and tooling optimisation

- Deliver an exceptional candidate experience while maintaining urgency and high hiring quality standards

- Mentor junior recruiters and sourcers while helping elevate recruiting best practices across the organisation

### Requirements

- 7+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, including significant ownership of complex hardware engineering searches

- Proven success recruiting Electrical Engineers, Power Electronics Engineers, Embedded Hardware Engineers, Avionics Engineers, or similar technical talent

- Strong understanding of technical hardware concepts and engineering organisational structures

- Experience partnering with senior engineering leadership in fast-paced or high-growth environments

- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple complex searches simultaneously while maintaining strong hiring outcomes

- Strong sourcing and market-mapping capabilities across highly competitive technical domains

- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and operational execution skills

- Experience using ATS systems, sourcing platforms, and recruiting analytics to drive decisions and pipeline visibility

- Ability to operate strategically while remaining highly execution-oriented

### Preferred Qualifications

- Experience recruiting within aerospace, defence, robotics, autonomous systems, automotive, energy, or other highly technical industries

- Familiarity with hardware development lifecycle concepts, embedded systems, power systems, avionics, or electromechanical integration

- Experience supporting hiring at scale during periods of rapid organisational growth

- Experience influencing workforce planning, prioritisation, or recruiting operations initiatives

## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- Power Electronics
- Embedded Systems
- Avionics
- PCB Design
- Power Distribution
- RF
- Systems Integration

### Nice to have
- Aerospace
- Defence
- Robotics
- Autonomous Systems
- Automotive
- Energy

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