Recruiter, Engineering & Manufacturing (Spark) (Contract)

Crusoe; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 96,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Crusoe is seeking a highly motivated Contract Recruiter to own niche technical hiring for Crusoe's Spark business. This six-month contract covers Manufacturing and Engineering roles, with end-to-end recruiting responsibilities and the ability to move quickly while maintaining a high quality bar.

You will map the market, build pipelines, run intake sessions, and guide hiring managers on market size and comp expectations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full life-cycle recruiting experience focused on niche engineering, manufacturing, or hardware roles.
• Experience filling searches with small, passive candidate pools.
• Strong market mapping and passive outreach using sourcing tools.

Responsibilities

• Own full-cycle recruiting for niche technical requisitions across manufacturing, engineering, and operations.
• Build pipeline from scratch through market mapping and sustained passive outreach.
• Run intake sessions to pressure-test role definitions and must-have skills.
• Screen for technical depth and translate backgrounds for hiring managers.
• Educate managers on market size, timelines, and comp expectations.
• Structure interviews and assessments with hiring managers.
• Lead compensation negotiations and keep ATS data up-to-date.
• Manage a high-complexity requisition load with minimal oversight.

Skills

Full life-cycle recruiting

Niche engineering recruiting

Market mapping

Passive outreach

Technical conversations with engineers

Stakeholder management

Salary and equity negotiation

Data-driven recruiting

ATS documentation

Travel willingness

Tools

LinkedIn Recruiter

Sourcing tools

Job description

Crusoe is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. As the only vertically integrated AI infrastructure company built from the ground up, we own and operate each layer of the stack — from electrons to tokens — to power the world's most ambitious AI workloads. When you join Crusoe, you join a team that is building the future, faster.

We're in the midst of the greatest industrial revolution of our time. The demand for AI compute is boundless, and power is a bottleneck. We're solving that — with an energy-first approach that makes AI infrastructure better for the world and faster for the people innovating with AI.

We're looking for problem-solving, opportunity-finding teammates with a sense of urgency, who believe in the scale of our ambition and thrive on a path not fully paved — people who want to grow their careers alongside a team of experts across energy, manufacturing, data center construction, and cloud services.

If you want to do the most meaningful work of your career, help our customers and partners advance their AI strategies, and be part of a high-performing team that believes in each other, come build with us at Crusoe.

About the Role:

We are seeking a highly motivated and results-driven Contract Recruiter to own niche technical hiring for Crusoe's Spark business. This is a specialist search role covering hard-to-fill manufacturing and engineering positions such as Manufacturing Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Manufacturing Project Management, Quality, and Supply Chain, along with adjacent technical roles as the business scales.

These are thin, competitive talent markets. Success in this role depends far more on market mapping, research, and persistent outreach than on working an inbound pipeline. You should be comfortable learning unfamiliar technical domains quickly, holding a credible conversation about what a candidate actually builds, and telling a hiring manager honestly when the profile they want does not exist at the volume or price they expect.

This role is built for a highly autonomous recruiter who can run complex, high-bar searches end-to-end, manage senior stakeholders, and operate as a true talent partner rather than a coordinator. You will inherit an active requisition load and be expected to move quickly while holding a high quality bar.

This is a six month contract with potential to extend based on business need.

What You'll Be Working On:

• Own full-cycle recruiting for niche technical requisitions across manufacturing, engineering, and operations functions supporting Spark

• Build pipeline from scratch through market mapping, competitor and adjacent-industry research, and sustained passive outreach

• Run intake sessions that pressure-test the role definition, must-have skills, and realistic candidate profile before a search kicks off

• Screen for genuine technical depth, translating engineering and manufacturing backgrounds into a clear read on fit for the hiring manager

• Educate hiring managers on market size, realistic timelines, and comp expectations for scarce profiles, and reset the search when the data says to

• Structure interview processes and role-appropriate technical assessments in partnership with hiring managers

• Conduct candidate interviews, provide timely updates, and lead compensation negotiations

• Manage a high-complexity req load independently with minimal oversight

• Keep pipeline data, notes, and status current in the ATS so leadership can see progress without asking

What You'll Bring to the Team:

• 5+ years of full life-cycle recruiting experience with a meaningful focus on niche engineering, manufacturing, or hardware roles

• Demonstrated success filling searches where the qualified population is small and largely passive

• Strong research and market-mapping skills, including passive outreach via LinkedIn Recruiter and other sourcing tools

• Ability to learn technical domains quickly and hold credible conversations with engineers about their work

• Comfort recruiting for on-site and facility-based roles, including markets outside major metros

• Experience partnering with and influencing senior stakeholders, including director-level and above hiring managers

• Experience recruiting in fast-paced, high-growth environments

• Skilled in salary and equity negotiation

• Proven ability to consistently meet or exceed hiring goals

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal

• Highly organized with strong attention to detail and time management skills

• Data-driven, with the ability to use recruiting metrics and market trends to guide hiring strategy

• Experience maintaining detailed documentation in an ATS

• Willingness and ability to travel as needed

Compensation:

Compensation will be paid in the hourly range of $70.00 - $80.00. Compensation to be determined by the applicant’s knowledge, education, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.

Crusoe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, citizenship, marital status, sex/gender, sexual preference/ orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, national origin, or any other status protected by law or regulation.