Senior Recruiter

Rainmaker Technology Corporation

El Segundo (CA)

On-site

USD 85,000 - 120,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Stock options with high potential

401(k) with employer matching

Full health coverage (medical, dental,

Relocation assistance provided

Unlimited PTO

Paid parental leave

Lunch provided when in-office

Free EV charging at HQ

Job summary

Rainmaker is seeking a Senior Recruiter to build and lead Rainmaker's recruiting engine, spanning sourcing, interview design, decision-making, and candidate experience. You will partner with the Head of People and leadership to scale hiring with rigor and excellence.

You will own end-to-end recruitment, ensuring fast, predictable, and high-quality hires while upholding Rainmaker's culture and bar across cross-functional teams in a high-growth environment.

Qualifications

5+ years of experience recruiting in a high-growth company with a track record of building exceptional recruiting operations including its process, systems and standards.
Demonstrated ability to hire hard-to-find talent in engineering, hardware, science, operations, and senior leadership.
Deep fluency in structured, evidence-based hiring with scorecards, signal-owned interview loops, and calibrated debriefs.
Strong sourcing and closing instincts with proactive pipeline-building.
Exceptional communication, judgment, and follow-through across technical, scientific, operational, and exec teams.

Responsibilities

Build the recruiting engine: create a system for sourcing, interviewing loops, closing playbooks, and weekly reviews.
Reach the people who clear the bar: target mapping, sharp outreach, and evaluating exceptional candidates.
Run a rigorous, evidence-based hiring process with objective signals and calibrated closes.
Own the candidate experience from first contact to offer, maintaining respect and professionalism.
Protect Rainmaker's bar and culture by upholding high standards amid speed pressures.

Skills

Experience recruiting

Structured hiring

Interview scorecards

Calibrated debriefs

Data-driven decisions

Tools

ATS

Sourcing platforms

Quality-of-hire metrics

Job description

Rainmaker is pioneering a modern cloud seeding system to mitigate water scarcity and inclement weather. We develop and incorporate radar and satellite validation, weather-resistant UAS, weather modeling, and novel sensors and dispersions into an effective precipitation enhancement solution.

Rainmaker is a high-performance research, engineering, and operations company. Our work requires scientific rigor, technical excellence, disciplined execution, and strong cross-functional communication across the cross-functional teams.

We are hiring a Senior Recruiter to help build Rainmaker's recruiting engine: the system that hires exceptional technical, scientific, and operational talent with an extraordinary bar of excellence.

You will own recruiting end to end: how we source, how we run interviews, how we make decisions, and how candidates experience Rainmaker from first contact to signed offer. You will partner closely with the Head of People, leadership, and hiring managers, but recruiting execution is yours.

What You'll Do

Build the recruiting engine

You will build the system that enables Rainmaker to hire exceptional people consistently, from sourcing and structured interview loops to closing playbooks and the weekly operating review that keeps every search tied to company priorities. The goal is to make hiring fast, predictable, and disciplined as the company grows, so that quality is the reliable output of a system rather than the product of heroics.

Reach the people who clear the bar

You will own sourcing strategy and proactive pipeline-building for every critical role, because the people who meet Rainmaker's standard aren't always the ones applying. Reaching them takes structured target mapping, sharp outreach, and the judgment to tell who is genuinely exceptional.

Run a rigorous, evidence-based hiring process

You will design interview loops in which every interviewer owns a clear signal, require approved scorecards before sourcing begins, and run calibrated debriefs and disciplined closes that win the candidates who matter. Decisions at Rainmaker rest on evidence rather than impressions.

Own the candidate experience

You will own how every candidate experiences Rainmaker, from first contact through signed offer, because that experience is one of the clearest expressions of who we are. Even the people we choose not to hire should leave with respect for the company and the seriousness of its work.

Protect Rainmaker's bar and culture

You will be the steward of hiring quality across every search, defining what great looks like for each role and holding that line against pressure for speed, convenience, or headcount. Hiring is where Rainmaker's culture is reinforced or eroded, and your most important job is to grow the company without ever lowering the standard that makes it exceptional.

Required Qualifications

5+ years of experience recruiting in a high-growth company with a track record of building exceptional recruiting operations including its process, systems and standards.
Demonstrated ability to hire hard-to-find talent in competitive markets across multiple domains, including engineering and hardware, science and research, operations, and senior leadership.
Deep fluency in structured, evidence-based hiring, including scorecards, signal-owned interview loops, and calibrated debriefs, with the conviction to hold the standard under pressure for speed or convenience.
Strong sourcing and closing instincts, including proactive pipeline-building for roles where the best candidates are not actively looking, and a real feel for reading and managing offer risk.
Exceptional communication, judgment, and follow-through, with the ability to operate from data and earn trust across technical, scientific, operational, and executive teams while building structure without unnecessary bureaucracy.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience recruiting for technical, scientific, aerospace, robotics, aviation, or similarly complex multidisciplinary organizations.
Experience in an early-stage or founder-led environment moving into a more structured operating company.
Experience designing and running interview systems and interviewer calibration at scale, not just managing individual searches.
Working knowledge of recruiting analytics and tooling, including ATS, sourcing platforms, funnel and source-quality reporting, and quality-of-hire measurement.
Experience partnering with People, Finance, and hiring managers to connect hiring plans to workforce planning, compensation, onboarding, and manager readiness.

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