We are looking for a motivated, execution-focused Associate Technical Recruiter to help support hiring across some of the company’s most critical software engineering organizations. This person will partner closely with senior recruiters and sourcers to help build, manage, and move pipelines for highly specialized technical roles across areas such as Autonomy, Robotics, Embedded Software, Perception, Planning, Controls, Infrastructure, and related engineering domains.
This role is designed for someone who has built a strong foundation in recruiting and wants to deepen their technical recruiting experience. You’ll work alongside experienced recruiters, support complex searches, engage with candidates, and help keep hiring processes moving quickly and efficiently.
The ideal candidate is organized, curious, responsive, and comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment with a high level of urgency.
What You’ll Do:
- Partner closely with senior recruiters to support hiring for Software Engineering, Autonomy, Robotics, Embedded Software, Infrastructure, Machine Learning, and related technical roles
- Help manage candidate pipelines from initial outreach through interview stages, ensuring candidates continue moving through the process
- Conduct recruiter screens and help assess candidate experience, motivations, and alignment with role requirements
- Partner with sourcers and senior recruiters to build strong pipelines for difficult-to-find technical talent
- Support proactive sourcing and candidate engagement across aerospace, defense, robotics, autonomous systems, automotive, AI/ML, and adjacent industries
- Coordinate closely with hiring managers and recruiting partners to maintain strong communication and quickly resolve pipeline blockers
- Maintain strong operational rigor across pipeline management, ATS accuracy, candidate follow-up, and recruiting data
- Deliver a responsive, high-quality candidate experience throughout the recruiting process
- Develop a strong understanding of software engineering roles, relevant talent markets, and the competitive landscape
- Use recruiting tools, AI, and automation to improve efficiency while maintaining a personalized approach with candidates
- Support recruiting process improvements, documentation, and other team priorities as needed
What We’re Looking For:
- 2-6 years of recruiting experience, ideally with exposure to technical or engineering roles
- Experience supporting software engineering, technical, or other complex searches
- Experience managing candidate pipelines and working across multiple open roles at once
- Strong sourcing, candidate engagement, or recruiter screening experience
- Interest in developing deeper expertise in software engineering and highly technical talent markets
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills with candidates, recruiters, and hiring managers
- Highly organized with strong follow-through and attention to detail
- Ability to prioritize competing needs and maintain urgency in a fast-paced environment
- Experience using ATS systems, sourcing platforms, and other recruiting tools
- Comfortable receiving feedback, asking questions, and learning from more senior recruiting partners
- Team-oriented mindset with a willingness to jump in wherever needed to help drive hiring outcomes
Skills Required
- 2-6 years of recruiting experience
- Experience supporting software engineering, technical, or complex searches
- Experience managing candidate pipelines across multiple open roles
- Strong sourcing, candidate engagement, or recruiter screening experience
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills
- Strong organization, follow-through, and attention to detail
- Ability to prioritize competing needs and maintain urgency
- Experience using ATS systems, sourcing platforms, and recruiting tools
- Comfort receiving feedback, asking questions, and learning from senior recruiting partners
- Team-oriented mindset and willingness to support hiring outcomes
- Exposure to technical or engineering recruiting
- Interest in developing deeper expertise in software engineering and technical talent markets
What the Team is Saying
Shield AI Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage includes medical, dental, vision, and mental-health support, with company materials describing excellent coverage. Feedback suggests these offerings are comprehensive and consistently highlighted across official and third-party benefit lists.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity is granted to all full-time hires, with RSU structures and tools like Carta Tax intended to improve understanding and tax timing. Feedback suggests this broad-based ownership approach is a notable component of total rewards.
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Parental & Family Support — Benefits include paid parental leave, fertility support, childcare benefits, family medical leave, and onsite resources such as a Mother's Room. Feedback suggests the family-oriented offerings are more expansive than basic coverage.
Shield AI Insights
What We Do
At Shield AI, you won't wait years to see your work reach the field. You'll build hardware and software that operates in the real world right now, in the hands of the people who depend on it. Hivemind, our AI pilot, has been flying since 2018. It has flown more than 30 platforms, including an F-16, and it now sits under a U.S. Air Force production contract for Collaborative Combat Aircraft. When you write code or shape a system here, you contribute to technology with a proven flight record and a clear production future. V-BAT flies intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions with an operational record that stretches from Ukraine to the Indo-Pacific. It delivers eyes where they matter most, in the most demanding conditions on earth. The teams behind it watch their work get tested where the stakes are real. X-BAT takes its first flight this year. It's an AI-piloted fighter that needs no runway, built to operate where traditional aircraft can't. Join now and you help shape a program at its earliest, most formative stage. That's the kind of ground-floor work that defines a career. Do the most impactful work of your life, on problems that matter. Autonomy at this level asks a lot of you. You'll take on problems in perception, planning, and control that few teams anywhere are equipped to solve. You'll work across disciplines, from aerospace and robotics to machine learning and systems engineering, alongside people who hold themselves to an exacting standard and expect the same from you. Our mission is clear: protect service members and civilians with intelligent systems. That purpose runs through every decision, every design review, and every deployment. It's why the work here carries a weight you can feel. Ready to join our mission? Explore our open roles and find where you fit.
Why Work With Us
Founded in 2015 by a former Navy SEAL, Shield AI builds AI pilots and uncrewed aircraft. Veterans aren't an afterthought here, they're at every level. It's why the work carries weight: AI pilots and uncrewed aircraft flying real missions, from Ukraine to the Indo-Pacific, protecting service members and civilians.
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