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About the Role

As a Technical Recruiter at Nominal, you will own recruiting for technically complex roles across Engineering and Product. This role is for a recruiter who can quickly learn technical domains, develop strong opinions about talent, and operate as a true partner to technical leaders. You will own searches end-to-end while helping build stronger, more repeatable ways to identify and assess exceptional technical talent as Nominal scales.

Responsibilities

Lead full-cycle recruiting across Software Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, AI, and other highly technical areas.
Build targeted search strategies and market maps for roles with narrow or competitive talent pools.
Develop and maintain relationships with exceptional technical talent, including passive candidates.
Own the candidate relationship from initial outreach through offer and close.
Partner directly with engineering and product leaders to understand team problems and required capabilities.
Translate ambiguous hiring needs into clear role definitions, candidate profiles, sourcing strategies, and job descriptions.
Learn unfamiliar technical concepts quickly to distinguish meaningful experience.
Provide market signal to hiring teams and challenge or recalibrate profiles based on market feedback.
Translate role requirements into clear assessment criteria and structured interview strategies.
Partner with hiring managers to define interview signals and ensure interviews assess for them.
Develop a strong point of view on candidate quality.
Use learnings from searches and interviews to refine the understanding of great candidate profiles.
Balance hands-on recruiting execution with improving systems, processes, and infrastructure for technical hiring.
Identify opportunities to improve sourcing, interviewer calibration, candidate experience, recruiting operations, and talent intelligence.
Help build a technical recruiting function capable of maintaining a high talent bar during engineering organization growth.

Requirements

4+ years of technical recruiting experience in startups or high-performance technology environments.
Significant experience recruiting software engineers and other highly technical profiles.
Ability to speak credibly about differences between engineering backgrounds, domains, and skill sets.
Ability to learn technical concepts quickly and ask necessary questions to understand a role.
Ability to independently turn ambiguous hiring needs into clear candidate profiles, search strategies, and assessment plans.
Strong sourcing instincts and an existing network within technical talent markets.
Comfort forming a point of view, using market data to challenge assumptions, and pushing back thoughtfully with hiring managers.
Excellent full-cycle recruiting skills including sourcing, assessing, managing complex processes, negotiating, and closing.
High agency and ability to make progress without a perfectly defined process or profile.
Ability to build credibility quickly with technical hiring managers and candidates through preparation, curiosity, and sound judgment.

Skills

Recruiting software engineers
Recruiting infrastructure engineers
Recruiting AI engineers
Recruiting developer tools engineers
Recruiting data engineers
Recruiting for technically complex product companies
Recruiting through significant engineering organization growth
Recruiting at venture-backed startups
Recruiting for high-growth technology companies
Building technical interview processes
Improving technical interview processes
Building technical assessment strategies
Improving technical assessment strategies
Recruiting across multiple technical domains
Explaining startup compensation and equity
Closing candidates on startup compensation and equity
Familiarity with hardware
Familiarity with aerospace
Familiarity with defense
Familiarity with robotics
Familiarity with developer infrastructure
Familiarity with data-intensive software
Familiarity with technically complex domains

Location

Remote

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

4+ years of technical recruiting experience

Benefits

100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance
Unlimited PTO and sick leave
Free lunch, snacks, and coffee
Professional Development Stipend
In-office hardware lab with a $250 project stipend
Annual company retreat

About the Company

Nominal is building the connected test and operations platform powering advanced hardware systems, including spacecraft, autonomous vehicles, and defense programs.
Our platform enables hardware engineering teams to ingest data, analyze performance, automate test execution, and collaborate across development phases.
We are a fast-moving team that owns problems end-to-end, works across disciplines, and thrives at the intersection of hardware and software.
We serve top-tier commercial and defense customers such as Anduril, Shield AI, Hermeus, REGENT, Pratt Miller Motorsports, the U.S. Navy, and the U.S. Air Force.
We are backed by investors including Sequoia, General Catalyst, Founders Fund, Lux Capital, and Lightspeed.
Our team members come from companies like SpaceX, Palantir, Anduril, and Applied Intuition.
Our mission is to provide hardware engineers with tools to build the future with speed, safety, and confidence.

Equal Opportunity

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.
To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.