Job Details

About Sift

At Sift, were redefining how modern machines are built, tested, and operated. Our platform gives engineers real?time observability of high?frequency telemetryeliminating bottlenecks and enabling faster, more reliable development. Sift was born from our work at SpaceX on Dragon, Falcon, Starlink, and Starship, where scaling telemetry, debugging flight software, and ensuring mission reliability demanded new infrastructure. Founded by a SpaceX, Google, and Palantir team, Sift is built for mission?critical systems where precision and scalability are non?negotiable.

About The Role

Were looking for a high?touch, high?impact Executive Recruiter to help us scale Sifts world?class team. This is not a traditional executive recruiting roleits a chance to build the craft of recruiting at Sift like an executive search partner would: through deep relationships, creative sourcing, and storytelling that attracts top?tier talent across all technical and go?to?market roles. As our third recruiter, youll join a small, high?performance team and own searches end?to?endwhile helping shape the systems, playbooks, and candidate experience that define how Sift hires. Youll combine the precision of executive search with the pace and volume of startup recruiting to identify, engage, and close the most exceptional talent in the market. This is an individual contributor role with broad ownership and visibility. Youll work directly with hiring leaders, founders, and the Head of Talent to evolve how Sift attracts and hires the people who will define our next stage of growth.

In This Role, Youll

• Lead full?cycle searches across engineering, GTM, and leadership roles, running each like an executive searchfrom research and sourcing strategy to candidate management and close.
• Build deep, long?term talent networks through proactive outreach, referrals, and ecosystem engagement.
• Develop tailored sourcing strategies for priority roles, combining high?volume prospecting with personalized, high?touch engagement.
• Serve as a trusted partner to hiring managers, advising on market insights, talent availability, and hiring strategy.
• Contribute to the design of recruiting systems, process improvements, and outreach narratives that elevate Sifts brand in the talent market.
• Champion a thoughtful, human candidate experience that reflects Sifts culture and values.

The Skillset Youll Bring

• 5+ years of recruiting experience, ideally spanning:
  
  • Executive search (agency or retained firm)
  • In?house recruiting for software engineering and GTM roles at a high?growth company
  
  
• A strong sourcing toolkitable to identify, engage, and nurture exceptional talent across multiple channels.
• Experience balancing high?touch, relationship?driven searches with the urgency of startup hiring.
• Excellent communication and judgment; you know how to represent both the company and the candidate with credibility and care.
• Low ego, high initiative, and a genuine passion for the craft of recruiting.
• A systems mindsetorganized, data?driven, and comfortable building structure in ambiguity.

Bonus Points

• Experience recruiting in the Los Angeles or San Francisco Bay Area tech ecosystems.
• Background in aerospace, defense, or other frontier?tech industries.
• Track record building candidate pipelines for niche technical or leadership roles.

Location

Sifts headquarters is in El Segundo, CA. We collaborate in person twice a weekon Mondays and Thursdaysand come together for a full week every two months. While we prefer team members to be local, were open to relocating candidates to LA or considering remote work from the San Francisco area for the right candidate.

Salary

Salary range: $100,000 $160,000 per year. Plus equity and benefits.

Seniority level

Mid?Senior level

Employment type

Full?time

Job function

Human Resources