Technical Recruiter

Blackwing; Detroit, Northern (MI, KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive equity and salary

Job summary

Atomic Industries is hiring a founder-level Recruiter to build and run the talent function from zero. You will own every stage of recruiting, craft a modern sourcing engine, and operate with high autonomy in a fast-moving, AI-enabled startup environment.

Remote-friendly and travel-focused, you will meet top talent online, at events, and in our Detroit factory, turning conversations into signed offers and shaping the company’s future of American reindustrialization.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering full-cycle recruiting across multiple domains.
• Proven ability to source hard-to-find talent using modern channels.
• Comfort with automation, AI tooling, and data-driven processes.

Responsibilities

• Own full-cycle recruiting across the company from touch to offer.
• Build and optimize sourcing channels, maps, and automation stack.
• Engage with candidates online and in person; manage relationships.
• Travel to meet candidates and host visits to Detroit factory.
• Design candidate experience to be fast and compelling.
• Collaborate with founders and hiring managers to set criteria.
• Instrument funnel metrics and run weekly optimization experiments.
• Lay the talent function foundations and mentor future recruiters.

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

Sourcing talent

Online presence

Automation tooling

High agency

Judgment under pressure

People skills

Tools

ATS

Sourcing tools

Scripting basics

Job description

About Atomic Industries

Atomic Industries is reinventing how the world makes things. From cars and aerospace systems to medical devices and packaging, nearly every physical good begins life in a mold or is shaped by a manufacturing tool. Building those tools has always been slow, manual, and dependent on a shrinking pool of master craftsmen, taking weeks or months per part. We are changing that.

From our Detroit headquarters, we pair the industrial DNA of America’s manufacturing heartland with the speed and precision of frontier AI. Our platform attacks the hardest problems in geometry, process planning, and fabrication, collapsing production timelines from months to days, and soon to minutes. We don’t just write software: we run a real, fully operational factory that ships production-grade tooling every week, giving us tight feedback loops most companies only dream about.

Backed by top-tier investors, we are here to restore speed, flexibility, and capability to the American industrial base and to make manufacturing as agile and scalable as the digital world. Reindustrialization is the mission. The talent we hire is how we win.

The Role

This is our first dedicated recruiting hire, and it is one of the most important bets we will make this year. You will own how Atomic finds, courts, and closes exceptional people, and you will build the talent function from the ground up: the pipelines, the playbooks, the tooling, and eventually the team around you.

We are looking for a tech-enabled, terminally online operator. You live where great talent actually spends its time—on X, in Discords and group chats, in niche Slacks and subreddits, at demo days and hackathons—and you know how to turn a cold DM into a signed offer. You treat sourcing like an engineering problem: instrumented, automated, and relentlessly optimized. You have extremely high agency and need almost no direction to go from “we need to hire this” to “they start Monday.”

If you want to be one recruiter of fifty inside a mature machine, this isn’t it. If you want to build the machine, and grow into leading it, read on.

What You’ll Do

• Own full-cycle recruiting across the company, from the first touch to the signed offer, for roles spanning engineering, manufacturing, operations, and leadership.
• Build Atomic’s sourcing engine from scratch: outbound strategy, talent maps, referral loops, and a modern automation and AI tooling stack that lets one person do the work of a team.
• Go where the talent is. Meet elite engineers and operators online and in person, and be a magnetic ambassador for the mission and for American reindustrialization.
• Travel to meet candidates where they are, host them at our Detroit factory, and turn a plant tour into the moment they decide to bet their career on Atomic.
• Design a candidate experience so sharp and so fast that people tell their friends about it whether or not they get the job.
• Partner directly with the founder and hiring managers to define what “great” looks like for each role and hold a high, uncompromising bar.
• Instrument the funnel. Track conversion at every stage, run experiments, and use data to make our hiring faster and better every single week.
• Lay the foundation of the talent function—its process, tooling, and brand—and hire and lead the recruiters who come after you.

Who You Are

• You have a track record of full-cycle recruiting and sourcing hard-to-find talent, ideally in a high-growth startup, hardtech, defense, or manufacturing environment. Years of experience matter less than a portfolio of people you’ve closed.
• You are genuinely, natively online. You understand modern channels and internet culture and use them fluently to find and win people others can’t reach.
• You are fluent with tooling and automation—ATS, sourcing tools, scripts, and AI—and you would rather build a repeatable system than grind the same task twice.
• You have extremely high agency. You are an owner and an operator who is comfortable with ambiguity, moves fast, and does not wait to be told what to do.
• You have exceptional taste in people and the judgment to hold a high bar under pressure to hire.
• You are a persuasive, high-integrity communicator who can make a skeptical, world-class candidate believe in the mission.
• You are hungry to build a function and a team, not just fill a seat, and you want the ownership and the upside that come with being first.
• You are fired up about reindustrializing America and making it possible to build hard things quickly again.

Location & Travel

Remote is welcome. We care about output and reach, not your zip code, and we will happily work with strong candidates wherever they are based.

Travel is a real and recurring part of this role. You should expect to travel regularly to meet candidates in person, attend the events where top talent gathers, and bring finalists to our Detroit headquarters to experience the factory and the team firsthand. If you love being on the ground and in the room where hiring actually gets won, you’ll thrive here.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and a meaningful equity stake in a company building the future of American manufacturing.
• Full medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents.
• 401(k).
• PTO with a 20-day minimum.
• The chance to build a talent function from zero, work shoulder to shoulder with the founder, and own one of the highest-leverage roles in the company.

Atomic Industries is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a team that reflects a wide range of backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.