{"id":3891083,"url":"https://alion.io/job/icarus-founding-recruiter","title":"Founding Recruiter","company":{"id":678654,"name":"Icarus","domain":"icarus.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/icarus-3","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":79,"open_postings":26,"ghost_share":0.269,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":91,"computed_at":"2026-11-08T05:47:12Z"}},"role":"HR","role_family":"HR","seniority":"middle","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["El Segundo, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":130000,"max":170000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":170000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":3,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-06T18:26:52Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-06","last_verified_at":"2026-11-08T06:56:29Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":0,"flags":["company_stale"],"days_open":1},"description":"Icarus was founded on the belief that the Stratosphere is the Forgotten Frontier and that reclaiming it will define the next era of aerospace and what is possible from the sky. We build solar-powered aircraft that fly at 60,000 ft for weeks at a time, delivering persistent, affordable, and scalable presence from this layer of the atmosphere. Getting there requires exceptional engineers, technicians, and operators. You will help bring them here.\nMission\nRe-establish and maintain dominance in the Stratosphere.\nThe role\nAs a Founding Recruiter, you will own recruiting from the first outbound message to the signed offer. You’ll work directly with the CEO and hiring managers to understand what we need, find exceptional people, and convince them to build with us. You should love the search: finding the engineer behind an impressive project, getting a response from someone who wasn’t looking, and turning a first conversation into a hire. You’ll build the recruiting systems that help Icarus grow while staying close to the work yourself.\n\nWhat You'll own\nRecruiting from start to finish. Source, screen, coordinate interviews, manage offers, and close candidates across engineering, manufacturing, flight operations, and business.\nOutbound sourcing. Build targeted talent maps and reach people through thoughtful outreach, referrals, technical communities, and creative research.\nHiring manager partnerships. Translate technical needs into clear role requirements, interview plans, and evidence of what great looks like.\nCandidate relationships. Learn what motivates each person, communicate clearly, and help them understand the mission, the work, and the expectations.\nClosing. Work with leadership on offers, address concerns early, and guide candidates through decisions and relocation.\nRecruiting operations. Keep Greenhouse accurate, interviews moving, and feedback timely. Build practical systems that save the team time.\nResults. Track sourcing effectiveness, interview conversion, offer acceptance, and time to hire. Find bottlenecks and fix them.\nOur recruiting story. Turn the work happening in the factory and the field into compelling job descriptions, outreach, and candidate conversations.\nWhat we're looking for \n3+ years of recruiting experience with a record of sourcing and closing difficult technical roles.\nExperience recruiting for hardware, aerospace, defense, robotics, manufacturing, or another technically demanding environment.\nStrong sourcing instincts. You know how to find people beyond the obvious companies and keywords.\nEnough technical curiosity to understand what candidates have built and why their experience matters.\nClear writing, strong judgment, and the ability to earn trust with candidates and demanding hiring managers.\nComfort managing multiple searches and changing priorities while keeping commitments.\nPersonal ownership of outcomes. You follow through, spot problems early, and improve what isn’t working.\nAbility to work at our El Segundo factory five days a week.\nBonus\nHelped build recruiting at an early-stage company.\nHired across mechanical, electrical, embedded software, RF, GNC, or flight test disciplines.\nBuilt strong networks in aerospace, defense, or hardware.\nCreated referral programs, university relationships, or technical events that produced exceptional hires.\nWhy Icarus\nMeaningful equity\nTop market salary and bonuses\nHealth, dental, and vision insurance\nFactory in El Segundo\nReal ownership, real hardware, real flight\nSmall team, massive responsibility\nHigh signal (engineering) to noise (management) culture\nDream desk setup\nDaily lunch\nUnlimited celsius\nHiring process\nPhone screen\nOne-on-one with CEO\nMeet the team in-person\nUS salary range\n$130,000 - $170,000 USD\nThe salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. 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