Engineering Recruiter

ALTEN Technology USA; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

ALTEN Technology USA in Irvine, CA is seeking an engineering recruiter to build long‑term candidate relationships and proactively source across social networks and professional platforms. You will craft recruiting emails, screen candidates, and coordinate with Recruitment Manager and Business Managers to align on staffing needs.

Experience with Greenhouse ATS and MS Office is a plus. All qualified applicants will be considered.

Qualifications

• 1-3 years of engineering recruiting experience.
• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Experience with Greenhouse ATS preferred.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office.
• Strong interpersonal and cross-cultural communication.
• Self-motivated, organized and collaborative.

Responsibilities

• Proactively builds candidate relationships and networks via social platforms.
• Crafts and sends recruiting emails.
• Executes sourcing searches and manages candidate experience.
• Provides talent market insights to inform managers and business leaders.
• Develops recruitment campaigns to create diverse pipelines.
• Screens candidates for fit and needs.
• Maintains accurate pipelines and data.

Skills

Engineering recruiting

Interpersonal skills

Autonomous

Team player

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Greenhouse ATS

Microsoft Office

Job description

We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life‑saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.

As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries, we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.

When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.

Responsibilities

• Proactively builds solid and long‑term candidate relationships and networks for current and future talent needs, by interacting with potential candidates on social media and professional networks (e.g. LinkedIn, CB, Handshake, and Jobvite.)
• Crafting and sending recruiting emails.
• Execute sourcing searches (cold calling, networking, identifying applicant associations/pools/professional groups and affiliations, websites, Boolean searches, targeted companies/individuals etc.), managing candidate experience through the sourcing process.
• Provide talent market insights, competitive intelligence and talent demographics as appropriate to enable Recruitment Manager and Business Managers to be best informed on market conditions.
• Develop recruitment campaigns for specific vacancies to provide diverse pools/ pipelines of high quality candidates
• Screen candidates to determine availability, interest level, business unit needs, and qualifications
• Establish and maintain accurate and well documented pipelines of searches, recruiting activity, contact data, etc.
• Ensures compliance with all policies
• Assist with special projects as needed
• Ability to navigate databases (Greenhouse expierience a plus)

Skills and qualification required

• 1-3 years Engineering Recruiting experience, preferably in Engineering or other highly technical fields
• Bachelor’s degree required
• Experience in Greenhouse ATS preferred
• Microsoft Office knowledge
• Very good interpersonal and communication skills to use in a multicultural context
• Autonomous and rigorous person with high technical interest
• Able to manage his/her own priorities while also being a team player keeping a focus on the company’s interests

Salary:

$60,000-70,000 with $1,000 per placement.

The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, the candidate’s combination of job‑related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, or pregnancy.

Compliance Notice:

Alten USA is a federal contractor subject to the requirements of the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) and Executive Order 11246. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Drug Screening Requirement:

As a federal contractor, Alten USA maintains a drug‑free workplace. All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a pre‑employment drug screening as a condition of hire.