Technical Talent Sourcer (6-Month Contract)

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Hiring Remotely in Menlo Park, CA, USA
In-Office or Remote
Mid level
Energy
The Role
Owner of top-of-funnel sourcing for engineering roles across hardware and software domains. Run outbound campaigns, talent mapping, and market research; use AI-enabled sourcing tools and ATS to identify, engage, and qualify candidates; partner with recruiters and hiring managers to refine profiles and outreach; track sourcing metrics and maintain clean ATS data.
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Company Overview

Mainspring Energy is revolutionizing power generation with the world’s most flexible and adaptable local power generation technology, the Mainspring Linear Generator. Commercial, industrial, and utility leaders are choosing Mainspring over traditional options like engines, turbines, and fuel cells to quickly and reliably deliver local power for EV charging, commercial facilities, data centers, and grid-scale operations. 

The Mainspring Linear Generator is fuel flexible, ramps up and down to meet demand, and utilizes a flameless reaction with near-zero NOx emissions. Backed by top-tier investors including Khosla Ventures, Bill Gates, American Electric Power, Lightrock, and General Catalyst Mainspring designs, manufactures and delivers its products to customers across the U.S. today, and we’re quickly scaling for international expansion.

Inspired by our vision of the affordable, reliable, net-zero carbon grid, Mainspring is rapidly expanding within the $816B global electricity equipment market, and we’re hiring the best talent to meet growing customer demand around the globe. We welcome a broad range of backgrounds, experiences, and talents to bring fresh perspectives and ongoing innovation to our customers.
We are looking to build relationships with people who share our values:
Pragmatic Optimism. Building a new category of world-class power generation requires the optimism of ambition and creativity, balanced with practicality to solve problems efficiently. The challenges that arise are opportunities for growth.
Excellence without Ego. We bring expertise and commitment to creating the best customer experience, from sales to deployment and service, just as we apply deep technical rigor to building and delivering world-class products. We strive for excellence and behave as leaders with the humility to acknowledge our challenges, both collectively and as individual contributors.
Proactive Collaboration. The integration and cross-disciplinary nature of Mainspring’s business requires intentionally seeking out others who bring different skills, perspectives, and priorities. Our culture of inclusion and respect extends beyond our team to interactions with our partners and customers.
More information can be found at www.mainspringenergy.com


Job Overview

This is a high-impact, execution-focused sourcing role designed to accelerate our technical team hiring over the next six months. You will own the top of the recruiting funnel for critical technical roles and partner closely with recruiters and hiring managers to identify, engage, and qualify exceptional engineering talent.

This role requires speed, precision, strong technical intuition, and comfort leveraging modern sourcing technologies — including AI-powered tools — to increase efficiency, personalization, and pipeline quality.

What You’ll Do

  • Drive outbound sourcing campaigns for high-priority engineering roles

  • Build targeted pipelines across hardware, mechanical, electrical, firmware, controls, manufacturing, and software engineering disciplines

  • Conduct detailed talent mapping and market research for niche or hard-to-fill skill sets

  • Partner closely with recruiters and hiring managers to align on candidate profiles and outreach strategies

  • Develop personalized, high-conversion outreach that clearly communicates Mainspring’s mission, culture, technology, and growth trajectory

  • Leverage sourcing platforms and alternative channels to identify high-signal candidates

  • Utilize AI-enabled sourcing tools and automation thoughtfully to improve search precision, messaging personalization, workflow efficiency, and candidate engagement

  • Qualify and conduct initial outreach conversations as needed

  • Track sourcing metrics (response rates, conversion rates, from posting to interviews) and continuously optimize strategy

  • Maintain clean, accurate data within the ATS

What We’re Looking For

  • 3–7+ years of technical sourcing experience in a high-growth or technical environment

  • Demonstrated success sourcing engineers across hardware and software domains

  • Strong proficiency with modern sourcing tools and talent intelligence platforms

  • Experience leveraging AI tools to enhance sourcing research, outreach personalization, candidate screening, and workflow efficiency

  • Ability to quickly understand complex technical requirements

  • Strong written communication skills — you write outreach that converts

  • Comfort managing multiple searches simultaneously under tight timelines

  • High level of organization, ownership, and bias toward action

  • Strong curiosity to understand technology

Does your experience not meet all of our posted requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to positions unless they meet every listed requirement. At Mainspring, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, flexible, and collaborative environment, so if you want to help us transition the world to clean and affordable electricity, and don’t meet all posted requirements for a particular role, we’d still love to hear from you. Mainspring can sometimes be flexible enough to shift responsibilities for the right person, or otherwise identify open or upcoming roles that may better fit your professional background.

In more traditional words, Mainspring Energy, Inc is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

This compensation and benefits information is based on Mainspring Energy's estimate as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future. We generally do not negotiate on salary once we have made an offer. The level of pay within the range will depend on a variety of job-related factors that may include location, relevant prior experience and/or education, or particular skills and expertise. New hires joining the company tend to be paid within the starting base pay range noted above, with opportunities to increase pay over time based on development of additional skills, competencies, and company-specific knowledge.

Skills Required

  • 3-7+ years of technical sourcing experience in a high-growth or technical environment
  • Demonstrated success sourcing engineers across hardware and software domains
  • Strong proficiency with modern sourcing tools and talent intelligence platforms
  • Experience leveraging AI tools to enhance sourcing research, outreach personalization, candidate screening, and workflow efficiency
  • Ability to quickly understand complex technical requirements
  • Strong written communication skills and ability to write high-conversion outreach
  • Comfort managing multiple searches simultaneously under tight timelines
  • High level of organization, ownership, and bias toward action
  • Strong curiosity to understand technology
  • Maintain clean, accurate data within the ATS
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The Company
HQ: Menlo Park, CA
294 Employees
Year Founded: 2010

What We Do

Driven by our vision of the affordable, reliable, net-zero carbon grid of the future, Mainspring has developed a new category of power generation — the linear generator — that delivers onsite, fuel-flexible power to accelerate the transition to the future grid. To learn more visit www.mainspringenergy.com.

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