We're looking for a Technical Recruiter & Recruiting Coordinator to become our first Talent Acquisition team member based in India. In this hybrid role, you'll partner with our global Talent Acquisition team and engineering leaders to hire exceptional technical talent while ensuring a seamless candidate experience. You'll play a key role in scaling our engineering teams across Delhi and Bangalore, owning both recruiting and recruiting operations.
What You'll Do:
- Manage the full recruitment lifecycle for technical and engineering roles.
- Partner with hiring managers to understand hiring needs and develop recruiting strategies.
- Source, engage, and screen high-quality engineering talent using LinkedIn Recruiter and other sourcing tools.
- Build and maintain strong talent pipelines for current and future hiring.
- Guide candidates through the interview process from initial outreach through offer acceptance.
- Provide hiring managers with market insights, pipeline updates, and hiring recommendations.
- Deliver an exceptional candidate experience while representing Shield AI's mission and values
- Coordinate interview schedules across multiple interviewers and time zones.
- Manage interview logistics, candidate communications, and interview documentation.
- Coordinate candidate travel
- Maintain accurate candidate records and data integrity within the Applicant Tracking System (ATS).
- Partner with the global Talent Acquisition team to improve recruiting processes and operational efficiency.
Required Qualifications
- 3 - 6 years of experience in technical recruiting role.
- Experience recruiting software or engineering talent.
- Strong sourcing skills using LinkedIn Recruiter and other recruiting platforms.
- Excellent organizational, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience using an Applicant Tracking System (ATS); Ashby experience is a plus.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience recruiting within AI, robotics, aerospace, autonomy, or other deep technology industries.
- Experience supporting hiring across multiple office locations or global teams.
- Experience in a high-growth startup or technology company.
- Passion for process improvement and delivering an outstanding candidate experience.
Skills Required
- 3-6 years of experience in a technical recruiting role
- Experience recruiting software or engineering talent
- Strong sourcing skills using LinkedIn Recruiter and other recruiting platforms
- Excellent organizational, communication, and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Experience using an Applicant Tracking System (ATS)
- Ashby experience
- Experience recruiting within AI, robotics, aerospace, autonomy, or deep technology industries
- Experience supporting hiring across multiple office locations or global teams
- Experience in a high-growth startup or technology company
- Passion for process improvement and delivering an outstanding candidate experience
What the Team is Saying
Shield AI Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Company materials describe excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage alongside a mental‑health EAP. Site perks such as an onsite gym in DC and a gym discount in San Diego support a health‑focused offering.
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Retirement Support — Careers materials highlight a 401(k) with company match as part of the standard package. A Total Rewards overview emphasizes retirement features within a broader, transparent compensation view.
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Career-Linked Recognition & Rewards — Compensation for in‑demand technical and senior go‑to‑market roles is described as competitive, with visible engineering ranges and top‑end packages. This points to meaningful upside tied to role, level, and scarce skills.
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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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
