Senior Technical Recruiter

Join Parallel Systems, a company focused on modernizing freight transportation with autonomous, battery-electric rail vehicles. As a Senior Recruiter, you will be responsible for full-cycle recruiting across technical and business-critical roles, with a focus on sourcing exceptional candidates. You will partner closely with hiring managers, build high-quality candidate pipelines, and help improve recruiting practices. This is a hands-on role that requires strong outbound sourcing experience and a comfort with modern recruiting tools and technology. - Own full-cycle recruiting for assigned roles, from intake through offer close, with a focus on sourcing exceptional candidates for engineering, hardware, software, manufacturing, operations, and go-to-market hiring. - Drive outbound sourcing for priority searches, including target company mapping, candidate research, outreach, follow-ups, and pipeline conversion, to build high-quality candidate pipelines. - Partner with hiring managers to define role requirements, calibrate on talent bar, build search strategies, and keep searches moving with urgency, while improving recruiting practices across sourcing, scorecards, hiring manager alignment, reporting, candidate communication, and interview process. - The right person is comfortable using modern recruiting tools, automation, and AI where appropriate to increase speed, consistency, candidate quality, and hiring manager visibility - Strong outbound sourcing experience, including target company mapping, LinkedIn Recruiter, candidate research, outreach campaigns, and passive candidate engagement - 5+ years of recruiting experience, with meaningful ownership of full-cycle recruiting - Experience working as an internal recruiter while partnering directly with hiring managers to define roles, calibrate talent, and manage searches - Comfortable operating in a startup environment with changing priorities, lean resources, and high expectations - Experience recruiting technical talent in a hard-tech or complex environment - Experience using modern recruiting tools (such as Greenhouse, LinkedIn Recruiter, or similar platforms) - High ownership mindset with the ability to drive work forward independently - Comfort using AI, automation, and recruiting technology to improve sourcing, workflow efficiency, candidate engagement, reporting, and process quality - Experience recruiting for a venture-backed startup or high-growth technical company - Strong interest in transportation, robotics, autonomy, climate technology, infrastructure, or industrial innovation - Experience improving recruiting workflows, reporting, candidate communications, interview processes, or hiring manager enablement