Technical Recruiter

parallel; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Parallel Systems is hiring a Technical Recruiter to build the engineering and technical teams essential to bring autonomous, battery‑electric rail vehicles to commercial operation. You will own full‑cycle recruiting for assigned technical searches across hardware and software, collaborating with hiring managers in a fast‑moving startup environment.

You’ll source passive candidates, manage a high‑quality candidate experience, and help scale recruiting operations using Greenhouse, LinkedIn

Qualifications

• 3+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience.
• Agency recruiting or high-volume outbound recruiting background.
• Experience recruiting hardware and software in hard-tech environments.
• Strong outbound sourcing, including target company mapping and campaigns.
• Experience with Greenhouse, LinkedIn Recruiter, Noon.ai or similar.

Responsibilities

• Own full-cycle recruiting for assigned technical roles from intake through offer close.
• Partner with hiring managers to define role requirements and calibrate the talent bar.
• Build and execute outbound sourcing strategies for priority roles and pipelines.
• Maintain a consistent sourcing cadence and improve outreach, screening, and interview conversion.
• Recruit across hardware and software functions including engineering, vehicle development, manufacturing and operations.

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

Agency recruiting experience

Hardware & software recruiting

Outbound sourcing

Stakeholder partnership

Tools

Greenhouse

LinkedIn Recruiter

Noon.ai

Job description

Parallel Systems is pioneering autonomous battery‑electric rail vehicles designed to transform freight transportation by shifting portions of the $900 billion U.S. trucking industry onto rail. Our innovative technology offers cleaner, safer, and more efficient logistics solutions. Join our dynamic team and help shape a smarter, greener future for global freight.

Technical Recruiter

Parallel Systems is building autonomous, battery‑electric rail vehicles to modernize freight transportation. We are hiring a Technical Recruiter to help us build the engineering and technical teams bringing this technology into the real world.

This role sits on the Talent team and reports to the Head of Talent. You will own full‑cycle recruiting for assigned technical searches, with a focus on building exceptional hardware and software teams across engineering, vehicle development, manufacturing, and operations.

This is a hands‑on role for someone who enjoys sourcing, engaging passive candidates, managing a high‑quality candidate experience, and working closely with hiring managers in a fast‑moving startup. The ideal candidate began their recruiting career in an agency or search environment, developed strong outbound recruiting fundamentals, and has since moved into an in‑house recruiting role at a startup or high‑growth technical company.

You will play a meaningful role in helping Parallel build the team needed to bring autonomous rail technology into commercial operation.

Responsibilities

• Own full‑cycle recruiting for assigned technical roles, from intake through offer close.
• Partner with hiring managers to define role requirements, calibrate on the talent bar, build search strategies, and keep searches moving with urgency.
• Build and execute outbound sourcing strategies for priority roles, including target company mapping, candidate research, outreach, follow‑ups, and pipeline conversion.
• Maintain a consistent sourcing cadence across assigned searches and use data to improve outreach quality, response rates, qualified screens, and interview conversion.
• Recruit across both hardware and software functions, including mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, embedded systems, autonomy, controls, backend software, manufacturing, vehicle integration, and test engineering.
• Screen candidates for technical alignment, relevant experience, motivation, compensation expectations, and likelihood to close.
• Manage a structured and high‑quality candidate experience throughout the process, including outreach, interview coordination, feedback collection, debrief support, candidate communication, and offer support.
• Use Greenhouse, LinkedIn Recruiter, Noon.ai, and other recruiting tools to manage pipeline, maintain accurate data, and provide clear hiring manager visibility.
• Identify practical opportunities to improve recruiting workflows, sourcing effectiveness, candidate communications, reporting, or interview process quality.
• Represent Parallel in the market with credibility, professionalism, urgency, and sound judgment.

What Success Looks Like

• In 30 Days: You are independently supporting assigned searches, building sourcing plans, running outreach, presenting qualified candidates, and providing clear pipeline updates to hiring managers. You have established a consistent sourcing cadence and are generating qualified screens for priority roles.
• In 60 Days: You have closed your first role and are actively progressing additional priority searches. You are demonstrating measurable sourcing performance across outreach activity, response rates, qualified screens, onsite conversions, and pipeline quality.
• In 90 Days: You have closed 1‑2 critical hires, built repeatable pipelines for recurring technical roles, and contributed at least one practical improvement to sourcing, candidate communication, reporting, or recruiting workflow.

Requirements

• 3+ years of recruiting experience with meaningful ownership of full‑cycle technical recruiting.
• Early career experience in agency recruiting, search, staffing, or another high‑volume outbound recruiting environment.
• Experience recruiting both hardware and software talent in a hard‑tech, robotics, autonomy, automotive, aerospace, manufacturing, industrial, or similarly complex technical environment.
• Strong outbound sourcing skills, including target company mapping, LinkedIn Recruiter, candidate research, outreach campaigns, follow‑ups, and passive candidate engagement.
• Ability to partner directly with hiring managers to define roles, calibrate on candidate quality, manage pipeline, and drive searches forward.
• Experience using recruiting tools such as Greenhouse, LinkedIn Recruiter, Noon.ai, or similar platforms.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience recruiting for a venture‑backed startup or high‑growth technical company.
• Experience supporting hiring across multiple technical disciplines, including hardware, embedded systems, software, manufacturing, and operations.
• Comfort using AI, automation, and recruiting technology to improve sourcing, workflow efficiency, candidate engagement, reporting, and process quality.
• Experience improving recruiting workflows, candidate communications, interview processes, or hiring manager enablement.
• Strong interest in transportation, robotics, autonomy, climate technology, infrastructure, or industrial innovation.

We are committed to providing fair and transparent compensation in accordance with applicable laws. Salary ranges are listed below and reflect the expected range for new hires in this role, based on factors such as skills, experience, qualifications, and location. Final compensation may vary and will be determined during the interview process. The target hiring range for this position is listed below.

Target Salary Range: $110,000 — $130,000 USD

Parallel Systems is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any discriminatory factor protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. We work to build an inclusive environment in which all people can come to do their best work.

Parallel Systems is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Parallel Systems will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact your recruiter.