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Technical Recruiter - Temporary Assignment (3-6 months)

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About the Role

STR is seeking an experienced Temporary Technical Recruiter to support hiring for mission-critical defense and national security programs. This role is responsible for full lifecycle recruiting across a mix of cleared and uncleared technical positions, partnering closely with hiring managers and technical leaders to identify and attract highly specialized talent.

The ideal candidate brings strong technical recruiting experience within defense, aerospace, government contracting, or national security environments and is comfortable operating in a fast-paced, high-volume setting. This individual should be highly organized, proactive, collaborative, and capable of independently managing complex requisitions while delivering an exceptional candidate and hiring manager experience.

This is a temporary/contract position with the potential to support surge hiring initiatives, critical program growth, and specialized technical recruiting needs.

What You’ll Do

Full Lifecycle Technical Recruiting

Own the end-to-end recruiting process for assigned requisitions, from intake and sourcing through offer acceptance. Manage a mix of cleared and uncleared roles while ensuring hiring plans align with technical requirements, clearance constraints, and business priorities.

Strategic Sourcing & Pipeline Development

Develop and execute advanced sourcing strategies to identify high-caliber technical candidates through direct outreach, referrals, networking, niche job boards, and targeted search techniques. Build and maintain pipelines for recurring and hard-to-fill skill areas to support both immediate and future hiring needs.

Hiring Manager Partnership

Partner closely with hiring managers and technical leaders to understand organizational needs and technical skill requirements. Provide guidance regarding labor market conditions, candidate availability, compensation expectations, and recruiting timelines.

Candidate Engagement & Experience

Serve as an ambassador for STR’s culture, mission, and values throughout the recruiting process. Ensure candidates receive a professional, transparent, and positive experience from initial outreach through onboarding while maintaining proactive communication and managing expectations effectively.

Offer Management & Closing

Lead offer preparation and closing activities, including compensation discussions, approval coordination, offer presentation, and negotiation support. Navigate competing offers and clearance-related complexities while balancing candidate expectations with internal equity and business needs.

Interview Coordination & ATS Excellence

Utilize Greenhouse, Outlook, and related tools to coordinate interviews, maintain accurate candidate documentation, track recruiting activity, and ensure an organized and efficient interview experience for candidates and hiring teams.

Compliance & Process Integrity

Ensure recruiting activities comply with company policies, OFCCP requirements, and applicable federal contractor regulations. Maintain accurate, audit-ready documentation and support hiring manager awareness of recruiting compliance expectations.

Collaboration & Continuous Improvement

Collaborate with recruiters, HR partners, and business leaders to share best practices, improve recruiting workflows, and enhance overall hiring effectiveness. Contribute to process improvements that strengthen candidate quality, hiring speed, and overall experience.

Required Qualifications

Experience & Education

  • 5–7+ years of recruiting experience with significant focus on technical recruiting
  • Experience recruiting within defense, aerospace, government contracting, or national security environments required
  • Demonstrated success recruiting for hard-to-fill technical positions including cyber security, analytics, software engineering, systems engineering, sensors, radar, RF, or related technical domains
  • Proven experience recruiting cleared talent and navigating clearance-related recruiting constraints
  • Experience managing full lifecycle recruiting processes independently
  • Ability to obtain a security clearance for which U.S. citizenship is required

Technical & Operational Skills

  • Proficiency with applicant tracking systems (Greenhouse preferred)
  • Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office tools including Outlook, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
  • Strong organizational skills with attention to detail and ability to manage multiple complex requisitions simultaneously
  • Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment and adapt to shifting priorities

Interpersonal & Leadership Skills

  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
  • Ability to build trust and credibility with candidates, hiring managers, and leadership
  • Strong judgment, discretion, and professionalism when handling sensitive or confidential information
  • Collaborative, proactive, and solutions-oriented approach
  • Commitment to integrity, accountability, and high-quality outcomes

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience recruiting for R&D, advanced engineering, or highly specialized technical organizations
  • Experience supporting both cleared and uncleared hiring environments
  • Experience recruiting for areas such as AI/ML, radar, RF, autonomy, cyber, and advanced sensing technologies
  • Experience supporting surge hiring or high growth recruiting initiatives
  • Prior experience working in a contract or temporary recruiting capacity preferred

Salary Range: $100,000 – $125,000 base salary
The salary range listed is based on external market data. Offers are based on factors, such as but not limited to, the candidate’s experience, education, training, key skills/critical skills, security clearances, and prevailing market and business conditions.

STR is a growing technology company with locations near Boston, MA, Arlington, VA, near Dayton, OH, Melbourne, FL, and Carlsbad, CA. We specialize in advanced research and development for defense, intelligence, and national security in: cyber; next generation sensors, radar, sonar, communications, and electronic warfare; and artificial intelligence algorithms and analytics to make sense of the complexity that is exploding around us.

STR is committed to creating a collaborative learning environment that supports deep technical understanding and recognizes the contributions and achievements of all team members. Our work is challenging, and we go home at night knowing that we pushed the envelope of technology and made the world safer.

STR is not just any company. Our people, culture, and attitude along with their unique set of skills, experiences, and perspectives put us on a trajectory to change the world. We can't do it alone, though - we need fellow trailblazers. If you are one, join our team and help to keep our society safe! Visit us at www.str.us for more info.


STR is an equal opportunity employer. We are fully dedicated to hiring the most qualified candidate regardless of race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation and pregnancy), marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

If you need a reasonable accommodation for any portion of the employment process, email us at appassist@str.us and provide your contact info.

Pursuant to applicable federal law and regulations, positions at STR require employees to obtain national security clearances and satisfy the requirements for compliance with export control and other applicable laws.

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