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Salary: USD 90,000 - 110,000 / annual
Fortastra designs and delivers resilient, high-performance spacecraft for critical orbital assets and national security space applications. The company integrates advanced autonomy, sensing, and control into systems engineered for reliability, speed, and scale.
You will join Fortastra's People team as a Technical Recruiter, working closely with engineering leadership, product leadership, and executive management to scale the engineering and operations teams. This is an individual contributor role with limited oversight, owning recruiting processes, searches, and reporting.
In this role, you will own full-cycle recruiting from sourcing through offer acceptance. You will develop and execute sourcing strategies to identify highly qualified technical and non-technical candidates, build and maintain candidate pipelines across engineering, product, operations, and business functions, and partner with hiring managers to define job requirements, interview plans, and hiring strategies. You will conduct candidate screening and assessment activities, coordinate and manage interview scheduling and candidate communications, and drive an exceptional candidate experience throughout the recruiting process. Additional responsibilities include tracking recruiting activity and providing regular pipeline updates, supporting offer preparation and hiring process coordination, helping improve recruiting processes and systems as the company grows, and representing Fortastra professionally in all candidate interactions and external recruiting activities.
The ideal candidate has solid technical recruiting experience in aerospace startups, strong execution discipline, and enjoys operating in a fast-paced startup environment. Fortastra values simplicity, accountability, and disciplined execution, with a culture emphasizing talent density over headcount, high autonomy and ownership, mission context over bureaucracy, and direct impact over career bureaucracy.
**Requirements:**
- 2+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience
- Demonstrated success recruiting engineers and technical professionals in aerospace, defense, software, robotics, autonomy, or related industries
- Proven ability to source and engage passive candidates for difficult-to-fill technical positions
- Strong sourcing experience utilizing LinkedIn Recruiter, referrals, networking, and direct outreach
- Experience managing multiple searches simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
- Strong communication, organizational, and relationship-building skills
- Experience using Greenhouse or similar applicant tracking systems
- Ability to operate effectively in high-accountability startup environments
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to candidate experience
- 5 days on-site in Torrance, CA required
- U.S. Citizenship required
