About the Job

As a Senior member of Anduril's Talent Acquisition team, you will own full-cycle hiring across our Quality organization — with a primary focus on Product Quality Engineering — as we continue to rapidly scale and grow. Your work will be hands-on and involve partnering closely with Quality, Engineering, and Manufacturing leadership to define hiring needs for highly technical, often hard-to-find quality talent, influence process improvements and efficiencies, and set a high bar of talent and performance. To achieve this, you will be given the autonomy and tools to execute, build, and develop Anduril's world-class Quality team. We are looking for someone who can handle every aspect of recruiting and talent mapping, excited to be part of a lean and nimble team on one mission together, where no task is too big or too small.

What You'll Do

• Own and drive hiring strategy full-cycle across the Quality organization — with a primary focus on Product Quality Engineering — providing effective, clear communication and reporting
• Act as a subject matter expert in prospecting techniques and tools used for information retrieval, data extraction, web-scraping, continuous process improvement, process automation, and candidate management
• Conduct a high volume of interviews, demonstrating ability to anticipate and influence hiring manager preferences through successful interview-to-offer conversion ratios
• Engage and source passive candidates — Product Quality, Supplier Quality, and Process Quality Engineers — using LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean strings, and referrals
• Build talent maps across the Product Quality, Supplier Quality, and broader Quality Engineering communities to generate market insights that inform your engagement strategy
• Drive diverse talent into the organization ensuring a positive candidate experience at every touchpoint
• Represent the company's brand and recruiting team internally and externally at the highest caliber
• Leverage internal resources, teammates, and cross-functional partners to build strategy around selling our value proposition and impacting hiring practices

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of full-cycle technical talent acquisition experience evaluating and hiring top-tier engineering talent, including demonstrated experience recruiting Product Quality Engineers and adjacent quality talent (e.g., PFMEA, APQP/PPAP, RCCA/8D, CAPA, SPC/MSA, GD&T, first article/FAI, DPPM)
• 3+ years of experience working with senior-level leaders and stakeholders, reporting on progress, creating and advising on talent strategies
• Experience recruiting in a fast-paced in-house environment (agency background a plus), hiring exempt engineering roles in Product Quality, Supplier Quality, Process/Manufacturing Quality, or adjacent disciplines (Quality Systems, Reliability, or Mission Assurance Engineering)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building a talent acquisition function from the ground up for a greenfield location
• Experience hiring into aerospace, defense, or other regulated/safety-critical industries, with working knowledge of ITAR policies around hiring practices
• Familiarity with the credentialing landscape for quality engineers (e.g., ASQ CQE, CMQ/OE, Six Sigma Green/Black Belt) and the quality management systems that govern the work (AS9100, ISO 9001, NADCAP), plus the universities and employers that produce this talent
• Experience acting in a consultative manner where your guidance has led to improved outcomes and positive candidate experiences
• Clear and effective communication with candidates to understand motivation, drivers, and fit within the organization
• Experience managing various high-volume pipelines of candidates and keeping track of their progress throughout the recruitment process
• Highly autonomous, collaborative, and adaptable