We're looking for a Recruiter to become our first Talent Acquisition team member based in Ukraine. In this role, you'll partner with our global Talent Acquisition team and hiring leaders to hire exceptional talent across technical and non-technical roles while ensuring a seamless candidate experience. You’ll play a key role in hiring and growing our teams across Kyiv and Lviv.
From generating strong talent pipelines to maintaining a successful offer acceptance rate, you'll manage the entire candidate journey. By developing a strong understanding of our teams’ hiring needs and search requirements, you'll effectively match candidates with the roles in which they will be most successful.
What You'll Do
- Manage the full recruitment lifecycle for technical and non-technical roles.
- Source candidates outside standard channels such as LinkedIn, using local job boards, Ukrainian veteran networks, industry communities, referrals, events, and your own professional network.
- Partner with hiring managers to understand hiring needs and develop recruiting strategies.
- Partner collaboratively with our PX Partners to ensure alignment on hiring needs, internal mobility processes, performance considerations, and to uphold strong, consistent hiring practices across the organization
- Source, engage, and screen high-quality talent using LinkedIn Recruiter and other sourcing tools.
- Develop creative sourcing strategies beyond traditional channels, leveraging job boards, veteran networks, professional communities, referrals, and your own network to identify hard-to-reach talent.
- 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.
Required Qualifications:
- 3 - 6 years of experience in a technical recruiting role.
- Experience sourcing candidates outside standard channels such as LinkedIn
- Experience recruiting within the defence, aerospace, autonomy, or advanced technology sectors
- 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.
- Fluent Ukrainian and English speaker
- Experience sourcing engineering talent
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience supporting hiring in partnership with global teams
- Passion for process improvement and delivering an outstanding candidate experience.
Skills Required
- 3–6 years of experience in technical recruiting
- Experience sourcing candidates outside standard channels such as LinkedIn
- Experience recruiting within defense, aerospace, autonomy, or advanced technology sectors
- 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
- Fluent Ukrainian and English speaker
- Experience sourcing engineering talent
- Ashby experience
- Experience supporting hiring in partnership with global teams
- 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 highlight comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with mental-health support and an EAP. Third-party benefits summaries also portray health coverage as a strong component of the package.
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Retirement Support — Offerings include a 401(k) with employer matching, cited on the careers page and independent benefits directories. Multiple sources indicate a match exists, though exact formulas have varied over time and warrant confirmation.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Company communications describe equity for all full-time hires and stock benefits as part of total rewards. Independent listings also note company equity/RSUs as a standard element.
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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