Founding Technical Recruiter
Founding Technical Recruiter
Early-stage defense AI company. Arlington, Virginia.
Location: Arlington, Virginia. Onsite.
Role type: Full-time employee.
About the Client
We build the vendor-neutral operating system for agentic AI in high-consequence environments. In our first ten months we won four fully competed prime contracts across the U.S. Government, every one of them deploying into classified spaces. We are live on JWICS. We were selected from a field of 200+ companies for a defense innovation challenge and won it. We beat two established defense primes on the same program and earned the follow-on, now in execution.
About the Role
We are hiring across engineering, GTM, product, design, operations, and security. Most of what we need is technical, and much of it is cleared.
You are the first recruiter in the building. You are not inheriting a sourcing engine, a warm pipeline, or proven outbound messaging. You are building them, with the founding team beside you rather than above you. Leadership runs executive search and owns the interview loops. You own everything that fills them, from first touch to signed offer.
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