Technical Recruiter

Karman Industries

Karman Industries is a Torrance-based thermal technology company building the backbone for giga-scale AI infrastructure. Founded by a team from SpaceX, Rocket Lab, and GE, Karman is moving beyond legacy cooling with the launch of the HPU (Heat Processing Unit)—a new category of thermal architecture designed for the 100kW+ rack era.

The HPU shrinks the exterior mechanical yard by up to 80% while reducing peak energy consumption by 10%+. Unlike traditional systems, the Karman HPU provides zero-water (WUE 0) cooling that ensures high-TDP GPUs and HBM4 memory stay at optimal thermal setpoints without throttling.

Founded in 2024, we’re a fast-growing team of passionate professionals dedicated to making a tangible impact on the future of humanity. We design, build, and test real hardware, and we lead with ownership: you’ll own your work from concept to hardware and help shape how we scale. Our values are Ownership, Performance Excellence, Radical Transparency, and Customer-Centricity.

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

Karman Industries is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Karman Industries is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

Direct applicants only — we are not working with outside recruiters or agencies for this role.