Technical Recruiter

Infrastructure for the Autonomous Era · First in. First up.

On-site · Austin, TX

--------------------------------------------------- We have an oversubscribed seed round led by Andresan Horowitz, a contract to win in months, and more than fifteen roles to fill with people who can build hardware that actually ships. Hiring is the highest-leverage problem at the company right now, and you own it. As our first recruiter, you build the engine that brings in the engineers and technicians everything else depends on, and you get to shape who this company becomes.

First Order Effects (FOE) is building America's Infrastructure Prime for the robotic era. Autonomous ships, drones, and robots are rewriting how the world moves, fights, and builds - but none of them work without infrastructure to power them, connect them, and launch and recover them. That's what we build.

Our team comes from SpaceX, Anduril, Saronic, Lockheed Skunk Works, Forterra, and Fuse Energy. Before founding FOE, we built satellite ground stations that closed a national comms gap in days, deployed multi-megawatt power systems at commercial speed, and shipped autonomous surface vessels into Navy fleet production. We've built infrastructure at lightspeed before - now we're applying that playbook to an entire company.

Own full-cycle technical recruiting end to end: sourcing, screening, scheduling, closing, and offer.

Build the pipeline for genuinely hard roles: power electronics, embedded, battery, mechanical, and skilled technicians.