Engineering Recruiter

ALTEN Technology USA; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

ALTEN Technology USA in Irvine, CA is seeking an engineering recruiter to build lasting relationships with candidates and hiring teams. You will source talent across engineering disciplines, craft emails, and guide candidates through the recruitment process.

The role emphasizes proactive candidate outreach, market insights, and diverse pipeline development, with a salary range of $60,000–$80,000 plus placement bonuses. All qualified applicants will be considered.

Qualifications

• 1-3 years of engineering recruiting experience.
• Experience with Greenhouse ATS preferred.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills in a multicultural context.

Responsibilities

• Proactively builds candidate relationships and networks across social media and professional networks.
• Crafting and sending recruiting emails.
• Execute sourcing searches and manage candidate experience through the process.
• Provide talent market insights to enable leaders to make informed decisions.
• Develop recruitment campaigns to provide diverse candidate pools.
• Screen candidates to determine availability, interest, and fit.
• Maintain pipelines of searches and candidate data.
• Ensure compliance with policies and assist with special projects.
• Navigate databases; Greenhouse experience a plus.

Skills

Engineering Recruiting

Interpersonal communication

Autonomous work style

Candidate relationship management

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—\u2014 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
• 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: $60,000-80,000 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.

Please beware of job seeker scams and see this important notice on our careers page for more information about our recruiting process.

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.

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