About the Job

As a Senior member of Anduril's Talent Acquisition team, you will own full-cycle hiring for our Quality Control and Inspection Engineering organizations as we continue to rapidly scale and grow. Your work will be hands-on and involve partnering closely with Quality and Manufacturing leadership to define hiring needs for highly technical, often hard-to-find inspection and 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 for Quality Control and Inspection roles, 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 — quality inspectors, metrology technicians, and quality engineers — using LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean strings, and referrals
• Build talent maps across the Quality Control, inspection, and metrology 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 and skilled-technical talent, including demonstrated experience recruiting Quality Control and Inspection professionals (e.g., incoming/in-process/final inspection, CMM/metrology, GD&T, MRB, FAI/AS9102, NCR/CAPA, SPC)
• 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 Quality Control, Inspection, Quality Engineering, or adjacent disciplines (Manufacturing, Supplier Quality, or Mission Assurance)
• Ability to be onsite/hybrid at Costa Mesa, CA

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 and inspection professionals (e.g., ASQ CQE, CQI, CQA, CQT; NDT Level II/III per NAS-410/SNT-TC-1A) and the quality standards that govern the work (AS9100, ISO 9001, NADCAP, MIL-STD inspection requirements)
• Familiarity with the trade schools, community colleges, apprenticeship programs, and employers that produce skilled inspection and metrology 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