Senior Tech Recruiter — AI & Defense (Remote)

Adelphi Data; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Adelphi is seeking a Recruiter to own hiring end-to-end, partnering with our Head of Talent. We're a fast-moving startup building AI-native software for defense and national security, growing across engineering and the business.

You'll run full-cycle recruiting for technical and non-technical roles, source passive candidates, and guide candidates from initial outreach to offer, while shaping how we hire as the company grows.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, ideally in-house at a startup or fast-growing company.
• Track record hiring software, ML engineers & Forward Deployed Engineers, plus experience with non-technical roles across a business.
• Strong sourcing skills and real comfort with cold outreach to passive candidates.
• The ability to sell a role, read a candidate and close an offer.
• High ownership. You run your reqs end to end and don't wait to be asked.
• Clear, warm written communication and attention to detail in everything candidate-facing.
• Experience hiring for cleared roles or in defense tech is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own full-cycle recruiting for technical roles (forward deployed engineers, software engineers, ML engineers) and non-technical roles across the business
• Source passive candidates through outbound outreach, referrals and your own network, and build pipelines for the roles we hire for on a rolling basis
• Run intro calls that tell the Adelphi story well and give candidates a clear picture of the role and the interview process
• Partner with hiring managers on intake, calibration, interview loops and timely feedback
• Keep our ATS (Ashby) accurate and current so pipeline, stage and scheduling data is something we can rely on
• Manage scheduling and candidate communication so every candidate has a great experience, whatever the outcome
• Close candidates: run the offer process with the Head of Talent and keep candidates warm through to their start date
• Help build the recruiting function: process, templates, employer brand and our referral program

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

Sourcing

Candidate closing

Stakeholder management

ATS (Ashby)

Tools

Ashby ATS

Job description

Adelphi is seeking a Recruiter to own hiring end-to-end, partnering with our Head of Talent. We're a fast-moving startup building AI-native software for defense and national security, growing across engineering and the business.

You'll run full-cycle recruiting for technical and non-technical roles, source passive candidates, and guide candidates from initial outreach to offer, while shaping how we hire as the company grows.