Technical Sourcer, Aircraft

This is not a generalist sourcing role. We are not looking for someone who can source anything and will learn airplanes on the job. We're looking for an airplane person who happens to be great at sourcing.

You'll find the engineers designing our aircraft: structures, aero, propulsion, avionics, systems, and flight test. That means talking airplanes with airplane people. When you reach out to a structures lead or a flight test engineer, they should know within one message that you speak their language. You'll support some of the best aircraft engineers and recruiters in the industry, and they expect exactly that.

Own sourcing pipelines for aircraft engineering, end to end

Map the aerospace talent market cold: every program, every team, every engineer worth knowing

Write outreach that speaks an engineer's language, because you speak it too

Tell the difference between someone who worked on an aircraft and someone who shaped one

Hold yourself to hard numbers: response rate, pass-through rate, hires

Support other teams when aircraft allows. Aircraft always comes first

Are an airplane person first. You've flown, built, turned wrenches on, tested, or designed something that flies. Pilot, A&P, flight line, flight test, military aviation, experimental builder, or a collegiate design team that put something in the air

Can hold a real conversation with an aircraft engineer about their work, not just their resume

Know what an aircraft is made of: primary structure, flight controls, propulsion, avionics, and why the tradeoffs between them matter

Have [2+] years of sourcing or recruiting experience, ideally for engineering roles

Are relentless. When the obvious searches dry up, you find another way in

Want to work somewhere the bar is high and stays high

You're a strong generalist sourcer looking to break into aerospace

Your aviation knowledge comes from reading job descriptions

You'd rather work a high volume of roles across many domains than go deep on one

The engineers you find will design an aircraft from a blank sheet. You'll know exactly what they built, because you understand it too.

We're a small recruiting team building a defense company that has to win. Here's how we operate, and we hire recruiters who already work this way.

The Standard. We know the work deeply. We are not generalists hiding behind job descriptions; we study the engineering, the domain, and the landscape until we can hold a real conversation with a practitioner. Every candidate who talks to us should call it the best recruiting experience of their career, and we each bring our own personality to get there. High touch, never scripted.

How We Think. One foot old school, one foot forward: we're obsessive about the fundamentals of recruiting and restless about finding better ways to do it. We play the long game and hire for what someone will do in two and five years, not just next quarter. And we'd rather define the industry standard than follow it.

How We Operate. Mission first, always. Speed is a competitive weapon, and we use it. Quality over comfort: we'll have the harder conversation with a hiring manager before we'll make the easy hire.

If that reads like you, we want to talk.

ITAR requirement

To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Swarm Aero is an equal opportunity employer. We value diverse backgrounds and experiences and make employment decisions without regard to race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, or disability. What We Offer

Meaningful equity in a high-growth defense technology company

Competitive base salary commensurate with experience

Medical, dental, vision, and 401k

PTO and paid sick leave

Monthly wellness stipend

Daily catered lunch (office)

Paid parental leave

Direct impact on a critical national security mission

A world-class team of engineers and operators solving genuinely hard problems