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El Segundo, California, United States · On-site
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El Segundo, California, United States • Hybrid
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Own the end-to-end technical recruiting process across hardware, software, and operations to scale the team from 5 to 50 employees. Build and manage the company's recruiting infrastructure, including ATS configuration, interview guides, and sourcing strategies.
Requires 5+ years of in-house full-cycle technical recruiting experience in high-performance environments, specifically sourcing specialized engineering disciplines. Must be proficient with modern ATS platforms and capable of creating structure in a fast-paced startup environment.
The role
We’re hiring a Founding Technical Recruiter to build the team that extends the internet to space. As we scale from 5 to 50 in the next 18 months, the engineers and operators you recruit will design the hardware that flies, write the software that routes data across orbital networks, and run the missions that prove it all works. Your fingerprints will be on every single one of those hires.
You will own full-cycle recruiting across every discipline: hardware, firmware, software, optical communications, mission management, and operations. More importantly, you will set the pace of our recruiting function itself. You will define what excellence looks like for sourcing strategy, interview infrastructure, candidate experience, and hiring manager partnerships.
This role will require you to dive deep technically. In any given day, you may need to review a resume for solar baffling experience, a real conversation with a physics PhD, and close an offer for an optomechanical engineer. Our expectation is that you’re able to effectively evaluate these candidates and compellingly articulate why Ephemeris Net is the next step in their career.
Key responsibilities
Full-Cycle Technical Recruiting
Process & Infrastructure
Employer Brand & Pipeline
What we're looking for
Minimum Qualifications
What we offer
Compensation & Benefits
Work Environment
The Opportunity
Our Vision and Values
Ephemeris Net's vision is to enable an open, space internet that anyone can utilize and access.
We believe that access to better digital connectivity is essential for human progress and that space is the frontier of digital connectivity. We believe that collaboration within market competition is the most effective way to expand the internet into space. Using Ephemeris Net to build space network solutions is how we can proliferate digital connectivity, collaboration, and "the raising of all boats" while achieving a commercial impact.
We care deeply about:
We are building a company people feel great about working at. We are seeking people who are open and actively seeking growth - both technical and personal. We value honesty, creativity, and a culture of ownership.
About our locations
El Segundo, CA: Located in the heart of the aerospace industry, surrounded by SpaceX, Aerospace Corporation, Northrop Grumman, and hundreds of space startups. A unique ecosystem where strangers on the street are excited about space.
Oakland, CA: Right off BART. Close collaboration opportunities with UC Berkeley and the broader Bay Area networking and space research communities.
Ephemeris Net is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
We are extending the internet to space.
Ephemeris Net is a pre-seed space networking company on a mission to provide space connectivity for all through collaborative engineering of commercial space networking solutions. We are creating the infrastructure that will enable the space internet beyond bent pipe—starting with foundational networking infrastructure that will define how data moves through space.
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