Technical Sourcer Full Time

Founding Technical Recruiter
Early-stage defense AI company. Full-time employee.

Government, every one of them deploying into classified spaces. We were selected from a field of 200+ companies for a defense innovation challenge and won it. We beat two established defense primes on the same program and earned the follow-on, now in execution.

We are hiring across engineering, GTM, product, design, operations, and security. You are the first recruiter in the building. You are not inheriting a sourcing engine, a warm pipeline, or proven outbound messaging. You are building them, with the founding team beside you rather than above you. You hire the people who beat the primes.

Someone who works inbound and waits for the pipeline to fill itself. Someone who wants to manage a recruiting team on day one, because there isn’t one yet.

Full-cycle recruiting across every function and level: sourcing, screening, scheduling, candidate management, and driving offers to close. Some weeks are engineering deep-dives, some weeks are operations and security searches. The cleared pipeline for TS/SCI and polygraph roles. This candidate pool does not behave like commercial tech. The people we want are not browsing job boards and they do not respond to standard outreach. LinkedIn Recruiter, referrals, community and event channels, and whatever else works. Compensation conversations, equity explanation, competing offers, and the follow-through that gets a signature. Ashby ownership : pipeline hygiene, accurate stages, scheduling, and the weekly numbers leadership uses to decide where to push.

Employer brand and candidate-facing presence, in partnership with marketing and the founding team. Job posts, outbound messaging, referral campaigns, conference presence, and the content that makes cleared operators notice us.

Referral activation across a team of CIA officers, Special Operations veterans, and frontier-lab engineers. Their networks are the best source of cleared talent we have and most of it is untapped.

3+ years of full-cycle or full-desk recruiting , with meaningful technical hiring in it. Track record sourcing passive candidates and building pipeline from nothing, not just working inbound or agency-fed reqs

Cleared recruiting exposure (TS/SCI, FSP, IC/DoD talent pipelines)

Hands-on Ashby experience, or fast fluency with a comparable modern ATS

Familiarity with sourcing and CRM tooling beyond LinkedIn Recruiter (Gem, SeekOut, or similar)

DC-market fluency for cleared and commercial talent

Experience contributing to employer brand : job posts, sourcing content, events, or recruiting-driven social presence

Health, dental, and vision insurance. Health Reimbursement Account for qualified healthcare expenses.

Life insurance , 100% company paid, plus AD&D.

401(k) with a 100% match on the first 6%, immediately vested. Every federal holiday , plus additional paid days off over the winter break.

Supportive leave of absence program , including time off for military service, medical events, and parental leave.

Breakfast, lunch, and endless snacks every day you are in the office.

Pre-tax commuter benefits.

Company phone plan. CIA officers, MIT engineers, Special Operations combat vets, and applied AI engineers from frontier labs like Anthropic and Google. You’ll make decisions that immediately affect national security.