The Role We're seeking a Senior Corporate Recruiter to lead full-cycle hiring across all our business functions. This role is central to our ability to build a world-class team-you'll partner directly with hiring managers, shape hiring strategies, and identify exceptional talent in highly competitive and specialized markets. Each of these teams require unique strategies: identifying a cost accountant who can stand up standard costing for reactor manufacturing, a licensing specialist fluent in 10 CFR, a legal operations lead who knows DOE Part 810. Each is a thin market, and each search needs a recruiter who can learn the domain well enough to tell a strong candidate from a plausible one The right person operates with urgency, ownership, and a high bar for talent, helping us scale quickly without compromising quality. This is a fully on-site role based at our Torrance, CA headquarters.
Key Responsibilities - Own full-cycle recruiting across Finance, Accounting, Regulatory and Licensing, IT, Commercial & External Affairs, Facilities, Security, and Marketing - from search kickoff through signed offer.
- Become the market expert for each function you support; map the talent landscape, name the companies and career paths that produce strong candidates, and bring that intelligence to leaders defining a role for the first time.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to executives and hiring managers, converting vague needs into sharp role definitions, interview plans, and hiring criteria before a req opens.
- Source passive candidates directly; build and run outbound campaigns rather than waiting on inbound applications for scarce regulated-industry profiles.
- Screen for substance over credential, probing actual scope, decisions owned, and systems built so hiring managers interview a short list of real contenders.
- Negotiate and close senior candidates against competing offers, navigating relocation to Orangeville, Utah and Torrance, California.
- Build the corporate recruiting playbook as you go: scorecards, interview loops, calibration standards, and sourcing channels that the next recruiter inherits.
- Keep a no-job-too-small posture - host onsites, chase references, and run the search yourself when that is what moves a critical hire.
Basic Qualifications - 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience hiring for corporate and G&A functions such as finance, accounting, legal, supply chain, or operations for niche applications.
- Track record closing senior and hard-to-fill roles in competitive markets, including offers against counteroffers.
- Demonstrated ability to source passive candidates directly rather than relying on inbound applicant flow.
- Ability to assess candidates beyond the resume and defend a hiring recommendation to an executive.
- Experience partnering with senior stakeholders who have never written a job description or run a hiring loop.
- Ability to run multiple concurrent searches across unrelated functions without losing momentum on any of them.
- High level of ownership, accountability, and follow-through on every candidate touchpoint.
Preferred Skills and Experience - Experience recruiting in nuclear, energy, aerospace, defense, or regulated manufacturing environments.
- Familiarity with hiring for regulatory, licensing, quality assurance, or compliance functions.
- Experience hiring in a company scaling past 300 employees, and in markets outside major metros.
- Experience building recruiting processes, scorecards, or sourcing channels where none existed.
- Exposure to executive search or leadership hiring.
What We Offer - Competitive base salary
- Equity ownership in a rapidly growing advanced energy company
- Comprehensive medical benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- Free daily lunch and dinner provided onsite
- Generous PPE stipend
- High-impact startup environment with significant ownership and autonomy
- Opportunities for rapid career growth and internal advancement
- Direct collaboration with experienced operators, engineers, and industry leaders
- The opportunity to help build and scale transformative energy technology from the ground up
Salary
$120,000-$150,000 USD
