Technical Recruiter

About Quindar

Quindar builds modern software for satellite operations, helping teams operate spacecraft with greater speed, clarity, and reliability. We work at the intersection of aerospace, software, and operations, and we are growing thoughtfully as we scale.

About the Role

Quindar is looking for a Technical Recruiter to help us find, engage, and support exceptional talent across engineering, product, operations, aerospace, software, and other mission-aligned roles.

You’ll focus on technical sourcing, outbound recruiting, first-round candidate screens, pipeline development, interview coordination, and hiring manager partnership. You’ll also play a meaningful role in people operations, including onboarding support, recruiting administration, employee documentation, and company programs that help new hires and employees feel set up for success.

What You’ll Do

• Build targeted pipelines for technical, operational, and mission-aligned roles.

• Source and engage candidates through LinkedIn, communities, job boards, referrals, university networks, and other relevant channels.

• Partner with hiring managers on role requirements, target profiles, sourcing priorities, and screening criteria.

• Conduct first-round candidate screens to assess role alignment, background, motivation, and mission fit.

• Support outbound recruiting campaigns, including research, outreach, follow-up, and pipeline tracking.

• Coordinate interviews and keep candidates, hiring managers, and interview teams moving through the process.

• Maintain accurate recruiting data, job postings, applicant tracking workflows, and candidate records.

• Support offer-stage logistics, preboarding, onboarding, documentation, and first-day readiness for new hires.

• Assist with people operations administration, company events, team programs, and offsites.

What We’re Looking For

• Experience in technical recruiting, sourcing, talent acquisition, recruiting coordination, people operations, or a similar role.

• Comfort finding, engaging, and screening candidates across technical, operational, aerospace, software, or mission-driven talent markets.

• Ability to translate role requirements into clear sourcing strategies, candidate profiles, and screening questions.

• Strong research instincts, organization, judgment, and follow-through.

• Discretion with confidential candidate and employee information.

• Comfort using applicant tracking systems, LinkedIn Recruiter, Slack, sourcing tools, HRIS tools, or similar platforms.

• Interest in startups, aerospace, software, and mission-driven technology.

Nice to Have

• Experience sourcing or screening for engineering, product, operations, aerospace, satellite operations, or software roles.

• Familiarity with Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Gem, HireEZ, or similar recruiting tools.

• Experience supporting onboarding, preboarding, employee documentation, or people operations workflows.

• Experience running outbound recruiting campaigns from research through pipeline tracking.

• Experience partnering directly with hiring managers in a startup or high-growth environment.

• Interest in building inclusive, scalable recruiting and people practices.

ITAR Requirements

To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.

Why you’ll love working at Quindar

• We work in a cutting edge industry and you will get the opportunity to be part of a small team with a large direct impact on the success of our customers’ space missions!

• We take work life balance very seriously. We require employees to take 15 days off but provide unlimited PTO and follow most US federal government holidays.

• Mental health is just as important as physical so we provide quarterly health & wellness benefits.

• Comprehensive health insurance for you and your family with 100% coverage for employees.

• We encourage employees to save for retirement and provide 4% 401(k) matching.

• Each year we have a 4-day company offsite. Previous locations include San Francisco, Nashville, Denver, Santa Fe, New Orleans, San Diego, Bozeman, and New York City.

• Our culture and company is evolving. You will be key in creating the next major or minor version!