The Role
The Sr. Technical Recruiter will manage full-cycle recruiting for technical roles in aerospace and defense, focusing on sourcing candidates, improving recruiting processes, and ensuring a high-quality candidate experience.
Summary Generated by Built In
Long Wall Company was created in 2024 to accelerate missile defense technology for the U.S. and our allies. Building on the RS1 and GS0 launch systems, Long Wall develops containerized, mass-producible missile defense systems and offers rapid, low-cost flight testing. We believe that the future of global security and stability require defensive technology that is lower cost, higher performing, better tested, and more broadly distributed than is possible today. Join us.
What we look for
Mission-Driven Problem Solvers. The aerospace frontier demands ingenuity. We want Team members who approach challenges with curiosity, embrace failure as a learning opportunity, and stay focused on delivering the best solution for the mission.
Total Ownership. We seek staff and engineers who take full responsibility for contributing to and delivering flight-ready work while recognizing that no one succeeds alone. The best engineers, corporate professionals, and technicians make their teammates better. Knowing that complementary skills create force multiplication and drive mission success.
DESCRIPTION
As a Sr. Technical Recruiter at Long Wall, you will own full-cycle recruiting throughout the company, with a particular focus on our most critical technical roles spanning engineering, manufacturing, and test across all of Long Wall’s missile defense programs. You'll partner closely with hiring managers and engineering leadership to develop deep role fluency, build targeted sourcing strategies, and move candidates through our process without losing speed or quality. This role will be more than execution, the goal is to bring a strategic perspective to talent, push back when the bar isn't right, and help build repeatable recruiting infrastructure as the company scales. You'll need proven familiarity with the aerospace, defense, and VC backed hardware technology talent landscape, and an intuition for finding and closing engineers and technicians who are hard to source and harder to move.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Own full-cycle recruiting for the company, with a special emphasis on roles across hardware engineering, manufacturing, and test - from early sourcing through offer close
- Partner with engineering leadership and hiring managers to develop deep role fluency, craft compelling job profiles, and define candidate evaluation criteria
- Build and maintain proactive talent pipelines for hard-to-fill roles in the aerospace, defense, and hardware tech talent market
- Serve as a strategic thought partner to hiring managers, advising on market conditions, talent availability, and calibration throughout the search
- Drive a high-quality candidate experience from first contact through offer, with clear and timely communication at every stage
- Oversee accurate records in Lever across all active requisitions, including opportunity stages, candidate notes, and disposition data
- Partner with HR on offer construction, comp recommendations, and the approval workflow prior to verbal delivery
- Support regular pipeline reporting and hiring updates to leadership and key stakeholders
- Contribute to building and improving recruiting strategy, processes, and best practices as Long Wall scales
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience: 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with a track record of successfully hiring for hardware engineering, manufacturing, or test roles in aerospace, defense, or hardware tech environments
- Education: (preferred not required) bachelor’s degree in human resources, business, communications, or a related field
REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
- Demonstrated ability to source and close passive candidates for specialized hardware, production, and test engineering roles
- Deep familiarity with the aerospace, defense, or hardware tech talent landscape, including where to find candidates and how to engage them
- Proficiency with ATS platforms; experience with Lever strongly preferred
- Strong stakeholder management skills, able to build trust with engineering leaders, manage expectations, and push back constructively when needed
- Experience managing 10+ requisitions simultaneously across varying technical disciplines and seniority levels
- Proficiency with sourcing tools and techniques including LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean search, and passive outreach strategies
- High attention to detail and discipline in maintaining accurate records, pipeline data, and candidate dispositions
PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
- Experience recruiting for roles requiring security clearances (Secret, TS/SCI) or familiarity with the cleared talent market
- Hands-on experience recruiting for production or manufacturing ramp — including technicians, production engineers, and quality roles
- Prior exposure to ITAR-controlled environments and comfort navigating US Person requirement disclosures in the recruiting process
- Experience supporting compensation benchmarking and offer construction, including equity and comp band positioning
- Familiarity with California employment law as it applies to hiring practices (pay transparency, ban-the-box, etc.)
- Experience building or improving recruiting processes at a scaling startup or in a high-growth defense or aerospace environment
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Ability to sit or stand for extended periods of time
- Ability to use a computer to complete assignments
- Ability to communicate with individuals and groups in person, by phone and telepresence
- Ability to travel for events related to Recruiting
- Ability to lift up to 12 lbs
- This role is onsite at our Long Beach, CA facility
ITAR Requirement
This position requires access to information protected under US export control laws, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations and/or the Export Administration Regulations. As such, US person status (including US citizens, U.S. permanent residents, individuals granted U.S. asylum status, or individuals admitted in U.S. refugee status) is a required qualification for this position.
Equal Opportunity Employer
We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, genetics, or citizenship status (when otherwise legally authorized to work and access export-controlled data) and will not be discriminated against on the basis of such characteristics or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. We encourage applicants of all ages.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience
- Demonstrated ability to source and close passive candidates
- Deep familiarity with aerospace, defense, or hardware tech talent landscape
- Proficiency with ATS platforms; experience with Lever preferred
- Strong stakeholder management skills
- Experience managing 10+ requisitions simultaneously
- Proficiency with sourcing tools and techniques
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The Company
What We Do
Long Wall is an American aerospace company based in Long Beach, California, that specializes in developing and manufacturing deployable launch vehicles and infrastructure for missile defense. Formerly known as ABL Space Systems, the company focuses on creating containerized, mass-producible missile defense systems and providing rapid, low-cost flight testing to enhance global security and stability through advanced defensive technology.
