Senior Technical Recruiter
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Job overview
ModRetro is hiring a Senior Technical Recruiter to build teams for its next generation of consumer electronics. The recruiter will own full-cycle recruiting across technical and non-technical functions, especially hardware engineering, software engineering, and manufacturing, and partner with hiring managers and leadership on talent strategy. The role can be based in the North County San Diego or Orange County office and requires four days in the office.
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Full job description
** this role can sit in our North County San Diego office or our Orange County office. This is 4 days in office**
We’re hiring a Senior Technical Recruiter to build the teams behind our next generation of consumer electronics. You’ll own full-cycle recruiting across a range of functions, with a primary focus on hardware engineering, software engineering, and manufacturing. You’ll partner directly with hiring managers and leadership and identify exceptional talent who want to build physical products that last.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Own full-cycle recruiting across technical and non-technical functions, with an emphasis on hardware engineering, software engineering, and manufacturing.
- Operate autonomously as a trusted talent advisor to hiring managers and leadership, shaping job descriptions, sourcing strategies, interview plans, and leveling across a variety of functions.
- Independently develop and execute creative sourcing strategies to identify and engage passive candidates using Ashby, LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, industry communities, conferences, and other relevant channels.
- Proactively identify hiring challenges, develop solutions, and drive recruiting processes forward without requiring significant direction or oversight.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with significant experience hiring technical talent across hardware engineering, software engineering, and/or manufacturing.
- Demonstrated ability to recruit across multiple disciplines, including both technical and nontechnical functions.
- Proven track record of independently managing multiple requisitions, developing sourcing strategies, and delivering hiring results with minimal oversight.
- Ability to operate strategically and tactically, from advising hiring managers on talent strategy to independently sourcing, screening, and closing candidates.
- Proven ability to influence stakeholders and drive decisions using data and market insights.
- Experience owning recruiting efforts in ambiguous, fast-paced environments, with strong prioritization, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
- Deep knowledge of recruiting technology (Ashby preferred) and a drive to automate and continuously improve processes.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience at consumer electronics, gaming hardware or hardware startups.
- Experience recruiting business/corporate functions such as marketing, ops, finance.
- True ownership: accountability for outcomes and a commitment to improving every part of the business.
- Continuous learner: low ego, high curiosity, embraces candid feedback, and iterates quickly.
How this job compares
Set against the 498 open Technical Recruiter jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- California median$130–180K/yr166 salary ranges
- California median$60–75/hr20 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 238 open Technical Recruiter jobs in California and 498 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Technical Recruiter postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (440 postings).
- Education
- 43 of the 498 open Technical Recruiter jobs (9%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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