Swarm Aero is redefining air power, building the largest swarming UAV and the most versatile swarming aircraft network in the world. The company is moving quickly to launch the first aircraft designed specifically for swarming, as well as the Command & Control software to mobilize swarms of thousands of heterogeneous autonomous assets and empower human operators to achieve superhuman results.

The team has created and exited multiple startups, negotiated defense deals worth billions of dollars, and designed and built 30+ novel aircraft, with aerospace experience from Scaled Composites, Airbus, Archer Aviation, Blue Origin, and Boom Supersonic.

We are looking for a Technical Recruiter who will own the full-cycle recruiting motion for our most complex and highest-leverage hiring lanes: software engineering and product. You will partner directly with engineering leads and product stakeholders to fill roles that sit at the intersection of defense, autonomy, and software systems. This is not a coordination role. You are expected to source, assess, and close.

This is a remote position. You will travel to our Oxnard, CA headquarters periodically for team meetings, candidate visit days, and cross-functional syncs.

What You Will Own

Software Engineering Hiring

• Full-cycle recruiting for roles across autonomy software, full-stack, and forward-deployed engineering

• Sourcing into the defense-adjacent software talent pool: engineers from national labs, aerospace primes, defense tech startups, and hyperscalers with relevant systems backgrounds

• Building and maintaining a live pipeline of qualified SWE candidates across seniority levels

• Running structured interview processes in close coordination with engineering leads

Product Hiring

• Own recruiting for product management and product design roles with a focus on C2, autonomy HMI, and mission software

• Translate ambiguous product role definitions into crisp job scopes and candidate profiles

• Identify and recruit product talent from adjacent verticals including defense primes, robotics, and dual-use tech

Recruiting Operations

• Partner with the Head of Talent Acquisition to maintain pipeline health, reporting cadences, and Ashby ATS hygiene

• Build and manage relationships with specialized agency partners where appropriate

• Contribute to employer brand, candidate experience, and offer process in a way that reflects the urgency and seriousness of our mission

What We Are Looking For

Required

• 5+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, with demonstrated ownership of SWE hiring from sourcing through close

• Proven ability to recruit engineers with systems-level depth: embedded, autonomy, robotics, aerospace software, or similar

• Strong sourcing instincts: you know how to find and engage candidates who are not actively looking

• Experience running structured hiring processes and calibrating hiring managers to consistent standards

• Excellent written and verbal communication; you can represent a technical role clearly and a mission compellingly

• Comfortable operating in a high-ambiguity, fast-moving environment with minimal process overhead

• Ability to obtain US Government clearance

Strongly Preferred

• Experience recruiting for defense tech, aerospace, robotics, or dual-use hardware-software companies

• Familiarity with clearance-bearing candidate pipelines and security clearance framing in recruiting contexts

• Experience hiring product managers or product designers in complex, technically-driven product environments

• Prior use of Ashby or equivalent modern ATS platforms

What We Offer

• Meaningful equity in a high-growth defense technology company

• Competitive base salary commensurate with experience

• Medical, dental, vision, and 401k

• PTO and paid sick leave

• Monthly wellness stipend

• Daily catered lunch (office)

• Paid parental leave

• Direct impact on a critical national security mission

• A world-class team of engineers and operators solving genuinely hard problems

Compensation Range: $130K - $190K