# Technical Recruiter (Defense)

**Company**: Applied Intuition, Inc.
**Location**: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $120,000 - 160,000 USD annually
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/appliedintuition/jobs/4510407005?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_71b4280c-56e

## Description

As a Technical Recruiter (Defense) at Applied Intuition, you will partner closely with engineering and program leadership to design and execute hiring strategies that attract, evaluate, and close exceptional software engineering talent for our defence business unit.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a business-critical role at the intersection of autonomy and national security, scaling a high-priority team building technology that matters. Extremely strong technical Sourcerers looking for mentorship on full desk work are urged to apply.

Responsibilities:

- Develop and execute recruiting strategies to identify and hire software engineers, ML engineers, and other technical talent with defence-relevant experience across cleared and non-cleared talent pools

- Partner with engineering leaders, program managers, and cross-functional stakeholders to understand hiring needs, clearance requirements, and long-term workforce strategy

- Leverage AI and agentic coding tools to drive recruiting workflow automation and increase recruiting productivity

- Lead structured, high-quality interview processes that assess technical excellence, problem-solving ability, and alignment with Applied's values and defence mission

- Build and maintain pipelines into defence-adjacent talent communities

- Provide leadership with data-driven insights on funnel health, pass-through rates, and time-to-fill across both cleared and non-cleared requisitions

- Deliver an exceptional candidate experience and represent Applied Intuition's mission within the defence and national security talent community

Requirements:

- 3+ years of experience in technical recruiting, with meaningful experience hiring for defence product companies

- Extremely strong candidate sourcing capabilities is required

- Strong business partnership skills and the ability to influence stakeholders using data and insights

- Proven ability to manage multiple complex searches in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with shifting program priorities

- High ownership mindset with the ability to operate autonomously

Nice to have:

- Experience recruiting software or systems engineers for autonomy, robotics, embedded systems, or defence platforms (UAS, ground vehicles, C2 systems)

- Familiarity with modern ATS such as Ashby or Greenhouse

## Skills

### Required
- technical recruiting
- software engineering
- ML engineering
- defence-relevant experience
- AI
- agentic coding tools
- structured interview processes
- data-driven insights
- funnel health
- pass-through rates
- time-to-fill

### Nice to have
- candidate sourcing
- business partnership
- influencing stakeholders
- data analysis
- problem-solving
- autonomy
- robotics
- embedded systems
- defence platforms
- ATS
- Ashby
- Greenhouse

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