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SkywaysSkywaysAustin, TX

Technical Sourcer

Skyways is seeking a Technical Sourcer to identify and engage top-tier talent for engineering, manufacturing, autonomy, hardware, robotics, operations, and technical leadership roles. This role involves market mapping, candidate outreach, and close collaboration with hiring managers to define and qualify candidates.

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About the role

What You'll Do:

  • Build market maps for priority technical roles
  • Source candidates across aerospace, autonomy, robotics, manufacturing, hardware, defense, and startup environments
  • Create and maintain searches in LinkedIn Recruiter and other sourcing tools
  • Run outbound outreach through LinkedIn, email, referrals, and targeted research
  • Lightly qualify candidates against role-specific rubrics
  • Partner with recruiting and hiring managers to define what “qualified” means for each role
  • Keep Lever clean with accurate stages, notes, responses, and follow-ups
  • Hand off qualified, interested candidates with clear context
  • Surface market signal around comp, titles, location, availability, and talent density
  • Help improve sourcing process, outreach quality, and pipeline visibility

What You'll Bring:

  • Proven technical sourcing experience for hard-to-fill roles in hardware, robotics, or adjacent deep-tech and physical-engineering domains (aerospace, defense, autonomy, or advanced manufacturing)
  • Ability to understand technical requirements and separate signal from noise
  • Strong search discipline, including Boolean, LinkedIn Recruiter, and creative sourcing paths
  • Clear, concise written communication
  • Good judgment on candidate fit, motivation, and relevance
  • Strong follow-through and pipeline hygiene
  • Comfort operating in a fast-moving environment with changing priorities
  • Ownership mindset and the ability to work with limited structure

Bonus Points:

  • Experience sourcing for aerospace, UAVs, robotics, autonomy, manufacturing, defense, or hardware teams
  • Experience with Lever
  • Experience supporting startup or high-growth technical hiring
  • Familiarity with mechanical, electrical, manufacturing, flight test, production, or embedded systems roles
  • Experience building referral maps or talent intelligence projects

Skills

LinkedIn RecruiterBoolean SearchTechnical SourcingCandidate QualificationPipeline HygieneLeverTalent Intelligence

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