Technical Recruiter

Karman Industries

Long Beach, CA/ Gardena, CA

Founded in 2024 and headquartered in Signal Hill, California, Karman Industries is at the forefront of revolutionizing industrial thermal energy. Our mission is to electrify global thermal systems across data centers, manufacturing, and energy industries. Karman is developing the revolutionary Heat Processing Unit (HPU) to reinvent thermal handling for giga-scale data centers & AI factories. The HPU is built around a supercritical CO2 chiller system utilizing a high-speed electrically driven turbomachinery core. Our system aims to reduce energy consumption in data center thermal management by greater than 25% and increase energy density by 10x.

At Karman Industries, we are committed to fostering a dynamic and inclusive work environment where innovation thrives. Our team is composed of passionate professionals dedicated to making a tangible impact on the future of industrial manufacturing. Join us in our mission to transform the industry and contribute to a more sustainable world.

Technical Recruiter

Karman Industries is seeking a Technical Recruiter to own full-cycle recruiting across a mix of technical and business roles. The successful candidate will partner directly with hiring managers and leadership to define role scope, calibrate interview panels, and drive hiring decisions with data and sound judgment. This role requires broad ownership spanning intake through offer close, with real opportunity to help build scalable recruiting infrastructure as Karman scales from prototype to volume production. This role is on-site and does not have travel requirements.

Responsibilities

Own full-cycle recruiting for a mix of technical and business roles: intake, sourcing, candidate experience, interview process, offer negotiation, and close

Build the foundational recruiting infrastructure: repeatable intake processes, interview plans and scorecards, sourcing playbooks, and candidate communication templates

Partner directly with hiring managers and leadership to define role scope, calibrate interview panels, and drive hiring decisions with data and judgment

Own and continually improve Karman's use of Ashby, ensuring clean pipeline data and reliable hiring metrics and forecasts

Ensure a high-quality, consistent candidate experience at every stage, at a time when candidate impressions of Karman are still being formed

Build recruiting metrics and reporting and use that data to continuously inform and improve hiring process

Required Qualifications:

3+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including technical, hardware engineering hiring

Demonstrated ability to build or significantly improve recruiting process, not just execute an existing one

Comfortable operating with a high degree of ambiguity and ownership, especially in a startup or fast-scaling environment

Strong stakeholder management skills: confident advising and occasionally pushing back on hiring managers and leadership

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Sound judgment on both candidate quality and candidate experience

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience recruiting for engineering, technical, or manufacturing roles

Deep familiarity with Ashby or a comparable modern ATS

Prior experience in a manufacturing, hardware, or industrial company