Talent Sourcer

The role

You will build talent pipelines for hard-to-fill roles across machine learning research, software engineering, infrastructure, product, and business operations. You will source passive candidates, write personalized outreach, and handle the first conversation with candidates.

What you will do

• Run intake with recruiters and hiring managers and turn each role into a searchable profile
• Source passive candidates through LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, X, niche technical communities, events, and target-company mapping
• Use AI research tools to move faster, and write personalized outreach yourself
• Send personalized outreach and qualify interested candidates over the phone
• Build and maintain pipelines for current and upcoming roles, and keep ATS records accurate
• Track metrics to ensure pipelines meet business demand
• Map competitor talent pools and share market insights with the team
• Represent SpaceXSI and SpaceX clearly and accurately in every candidate conversation
• Maintain a strong sense of urgency while preserving quality and judgment

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 1+ years of recruiting or sourcing experience; or associate degree and 2+ years of recruiting or sourcing experience; or 3+ years of professional experience as a recruiter or sou
• Outstanding communication skills
• Willingness and drive to manage a demanding high-volume workload
• Thrive in a team environment with strong presentation skills
• Available to work extended hours and weekends as needed
• Onsite in Memphis, TN, full-time

Nice to have

• 3+ years of technical sourcing or technical recruiting experience, including passive outreach
• Experience sourcing hard-to-fill roles across more than one function, from individual contributor through leadership
• Proven Boolean and X-ray search skills, including building and refining your own search strings
• Experience writing personalized outreach that gets a response from passive candidates
• Working proficiency with an ATS (Greenhouse preferred) and at least one dedicated sourcing or research tool
• Experience turning a hiring manager's intake into a searchable candidate profile
• Experience mapping talent markets, including target companies and competitor pools
• Skill at judging technical depth well enough to pass a calibrated slate to a recruiter

About the company

SpaceX was founded to make life multiplanetary. SpaceXSI is building Super Intelligence to help humanity understand the universe, including the Colossus supercomputers, Grok models, and applications such as Grok Bot, Grok Build, Grok Imagine, Grok Voice, and X.