Senior Technical Recruiter
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 14, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 11, 2026. EchoStar scores B on the Alion truth index.
This role transforms our recruitment function from a reactive model into a proactive, sourcing-led engine, driving high-density talent acquisition across our engineering, product, and architecture teams. You will tackle technical talent scarcity by shifting focus from passive application reviews to active outreach, leveraging real-time market insights to resolve hiring bottlenecks. Success in this role requires acting as a high-energy technical advisor to Engineering leadership, utilizing your tech-stack fluency and market intelligence to influence hiring decisions and secure top-tier talent in an agile, onsite environment.
What Success Looks Like (Objectives):
- Drive Outbound Sourcing:Cultivate new talent pools by actively targeting passive technical candidates
- Act as a Strategic Advisor and Data-Driven Partner:Partner with Technical leadership to influence hiring strategies while proactively leveraging AI-driven data to identify aging requisitions, refine requirements, and pivot sourcing tactics as needed
- Build Sustainable Pipelines:Map competitor landscapes, utilize AI-sourcing tools and identify key technical hubs to secure a steady flow of high-potential candidates for critical engineering, Agentic AI, cloud architecture, and cybersecurity functions
- Conduct Technical Screenings:Execute deep-dive technical screens to validate candidate alignment with specific tech stacks (e.g., Java, AWS, Microservices) and methodologies prior to hiring manager submission
- Meet Delivery Targets:Achieve 16+ technical hires per quarter across all seniority levels while maintaining a "Time in Process" of 30 days or less
- Maintain Quality Benchmarks:Ensure high-quality shortlists with a 2:1 submission-to-interview ratio through technical assessment and alignment with engineering requirements
Core Skills, Competencies, and Key Experiences (What you’ll bring)
- Technical Fluency: Demonstrated ability to converse intelligently with engineering leads regarding software architecture, CI/CD, and specific developer frameworks to ensure accurate candidate matching
- Exceptional communication and influence skills required to partner directly with Engineering Directors and VPs, providing clear logic and evidence to guide technical hiring decisions
- Critical experience in full-cycle technical recruitment ownership, including strategic intake for engineering roles, high-activity outbound hunting, and complex offer negotiation for high-demand talent
- Technical mastery of enterprise ATS platforms like iCIMS and sophisticated proficiency in sourcing platforms and AI-search aggregators
- Analytical capability to perform technical compensation benchmarking and talent mapping, providing a clear view of the competitive landscape for specialized engineering roles
- AI literacy and application expertise used to automate technical candidate discovery, streamline screening workflows, and enhance the precision of niche skill identification
Candidates must be willing to participate in at least one in-person interview.
Visa sponsorship not available for this role.
Minimum Requirements:
- Minimum Education:Bachelor’s Degree in HR, Business, Computer Science, or a related field
- Minimum Experience:3+ years of experience in Full-Cycle Technical Recruiting (Engineering, Product, or Infrastructure)
- Required Technical Skills:Must have experience with:
- Enterprise-grade ATS (e.g., iCIMS)
- Technical sourcing platforms (LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, Stack Overflow)
- Data-driven hiring "pivots" for niche technical roles
- High-activity outbound sourcing for passive engineering talent
- Location:Ability to work 5 days a week onsite (non-remote)
Salary Range
Compensation: $72,350.00/Year - $118,900.00/Year
About Our Department
The EchoStar Talent Acquisition team collaborates with innovative leaders across the organization, seeking individuals who embody our company's core values, creative spirit and drive to make a difference. From discovering and nurturing exceptional talent to navigating the complexities of an evolving and multi-dimentional business, our TA professionals are catalysts for positive change, both within the company and in their own careers.
About Our Company
EchoStar is reimagining the future of connectivity. Our business reach spans satellite television service, live-streaming and on-demand programming, smart home installation services, mobile plans and products.
Today, our brands include Boost Mobile, DISH TV, Gen Mobile, Hughes and Sling TV.
Benefits
We offer meaningful health perks, including flexible spending accounts, HSA, a 401(k) plan with company match, employee stock purchase plan, career opportunities, and a flexible time away plan. Review a benefits summary here:EchoStar Benefits
The base pay range shown is a guideline. Individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, and competencies. Compensation is based on the role's location and is subject to change.
Candidates need to successfully complete a pre-employment screen, which may include a drug test and DMV check. Our company is committed to fostering an inclusive and equitable workplace where every individual has the opportunity to succeed. We are dedicated to providing individuals with criminal or arrest records a fair chance of employment in accordance with local, state, and federal laws.
This job posting will be active for a minimum of 3 days and will continue to extend by 3 days until the position is filled.
We pride ourselves on developing and promoting talent as an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. EchoStar will accommodate the sincerely held religious beliefs of employees if such accommodations are not undue hardships and are otherwise within the bounds of applicable law. All qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with local, state, and federal law. You may redact any information that identifies age, date of birth, or dates of school/graduation from your application documents before submission and throughout our application process.
EchoStar will provide reasonable accommodation to otherwise qualified job applicants and employees with known physical or mental disabilities, unless doing so poses an undue hardship on the Company, poses a direct threat of substantial harm to others, or is otherwise not required by law. EchoStar has a more detailed Accommodation Policy that applies to employees. EchoStar endeavors to make echostar.com and jobs.echostar.com accessible to users. Please contact [email protected] if you would like to discuss the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process. This contact information is for accommodation requests only; do not use this contact information to inquire about the status of applications. If you have questions regarding your application or the recruitment process please email [email protected].
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- Drive Outbound Sourcing:Cultivate new talent pools by actively targeting passive technical candidates
- Act as a Strategic Advisor and Data-Driven Partner:Partner with Technical leadership to influence hiring strategies while proactively leveraging AI-driven data to identify aging requisitions, refine requirements, and pivot sourcing tactics as needed
- Build Sustainable Pipelines:Map competitor landscapes, utilize AI-sourcing tools and identify key technical hubs to secure a steady flow of high-potential candidates for critical engineering, Agentic AI, cloud architecture, and cybersecurity functions
- Conduct Technical Screenings:Execute deep-dive technical screens to validate candidate alignment with specific tech stacks (e.g., Java, AWS, Microservices) and methodologies prior to hiring manager submission
- Meet Delivery Targets:Achieve 16+ technical hires per quarter across all seniority levels while maintaining a "Time in Process" of 30 days or less
- Maintain Quality Benchmarks:Ensure high-quality shortlists with a 2:1 submission-to-interview ratio through technical assessment and alignment with engineering requirements
- Technical Fluency: Demonstrated ability to converse intelligently with engineering leads regarding software architecture, CI/CD, and specific developer frameworks to ensure accurate candidate matching
- Exceptional communication and influence skills required to partner directly with Engineering Directors and VPs, providing clear logic and evidence to guide technical hiring decisions
- Critical experience in full-cycle technical recruitment ownership, including strategic intake for engineering roles, high-activity outbound hunting, and complex offer negotiation for high-demand talent
- Technical mastery of enterprise ATS platforms like iCIMS and sophisticated proficiency in sourcing platforms and AI-search aggregators
- Analytical capability to perform technical compensation benchmarking and talent mapping, providing a clear view of the competitive landscape for specialized engineering roles
- AI literacy and application expertise used to automate technical candidate discovery, streamline screening workflows, and enhance the precision of niche skill identification
Candidates must be willing to participate in at least one in-person interview.
Visa sponsorship not available for this role.
Minimum Requirements:
- Minimum Education:Bachelor’s Degree in HR, Business, Computer Science, or a related field
- Minimum Experience:3+ years of experience in Full-Cycle Technical Recruiting (Engineering, Product, or Infrastructure)
- Required Technical Skills:Must have experience with:
- Enterprise-grade ATS (e.g., iCIMS)
- Technical sourcing platforms (LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, Stack Overflow)
- Data-driven hiring "pivots" for niche technical roles
- High-activity outbound sourcing for passive engineering talent
- Location:Ability to work 5 days a week onsite (non-remote)