Singularity is an aerospace and defense startup headquartered in Gardena, CA. Our founding team hails from SpaceX, Anduril, and Lockheed Martin, and we are backed by Joint Staff-level military leadership and several Silicon Valley firms. Our first product is a low-cost air defense system built for immediate deployment worldwide. With a world-class business development and leadership team already in place, we are well positioned to capitalize on already overwhelming demand.
The Role
We’re hiring our first Senior Talent Acquisition Manager to own recruiting at Singularity. You’ll start hands-on, personally running searches across the company, then build and lead a recruiting team within your first 3–6 months. You’ll partner closely with leadership and our People Operations lead as a functional owner, and report to the COO.
What You’ll Do
- Own full-cycle recruiting across engineering, production, program management, BD, and G&A, from intake and sourcing through closing and offers
- Partner with leadership and hiring managers to define roles, leveling, and hiring plans tied to program and production milestones
- Personally source and close hard-to-fill technical talent, including propulsion, guidance and controls, embedded, test, and manufacturing engineers
- Evaluate and improve our interview process: structured loops by role family, scorecards, clear decision owners, and fast feedback
- Hire, onboard, and manage a recruiting team, such as technical recruiters and coordinators, as hiring volume grows
- Get the most out of our existing ATS, build hiring metrics and reporting for leadership, and recommend tooling changes as we scale
- Run compliant hiring for a defense environment, including U.S. person/ITAR requirements and coordination on clearance eligibility and sponsorship
- Build sourcing channels and employer brand, including referrals, defense and aerospace networks, universities, and military transition pipelines
- Partner with People Operations on compensation benchmarking, offers, and the new-hire experience
What You Bring
- 7+ years of full-cycle recruiting, including meaningful time at a high-growth startup
- Track record recruiting technical talent in defense, aerospace, hardware, or deep tech
- Experience building recruiting processes from scratch, ideally as an early or first recruiting hire
- Experience managing recruiters or recruiting coordinators
- Working knowledge of ITAR/export control hiring considerations and the security clearance process
- Strong sourcing and closing skills with senior and highly competitive candidates
- Sound judgment, discretion, and comfort operating with minimal structure
- U.S. person status required (U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or protected individual under ITAR)
Nice to Have
- Experience recruiting cleared talent or supporting facility clearance (FCL) growth
- Network in LA aerospace and defense, national labs, or the military transition community
Skills Required
- 7+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience
- Meaningful experience working at a high-growth startup
- Experience recruiting technical talent in defense, aerospace, hardware, or deep tech
- Experience building recruiting processes from scratch
- Experience managing recruiters or recruiting coordinators
- Working knowledge of ITAR and export-control hiring considerations
- Working knowledge of the security clearance process
- Strong sourcing and closing skills with senior and highly competitive candidates
- Sound judgment, discretion, and comfort operating with minimal structure
- U.S. person status under ITAR
- Experience recruiting cleared talent or supporting facility-clearance growth
- Network in Los Angeles aerospace and defense, national labs, or the military transition community
What We Do
Singularity Defense is a U.S. aerospace and defense innovator developing scalable, cost-effective air-defense technologies and low-cost interceptor systems to counter modern, mass-produced aerial threats. The company engineers counter-weapon systems at scale to protect people on the battlefield and at home, with a mission to bring warfighters home and keep cities safe through affordable defenses for the most urgent security challenges.
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