Technical Recruiter - 2026 New Graduate

About the role

Radiant is a startup in El Segundo, CA, developing the world’s first mass-produced, portable nuclear microreactors. Their first product, Kaleidos, is a 1-megawatt, fail-safe microreactor capable of running for up to 5 years without refueling. This technology can replace diesel generators and provide critical power for hospitals, data centers, remote sites, and military bases.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Run your own requisitions from open to close, building the pipeline, screening candidates, coordinating interviews, and getting offers signed.
• Create talent market reports based on research to help make better-informed recruiting strategies.
• Coordinate interviews and facilitate hiring team debriefs to keep decisions moving quickly.
• Sit in on offer conversations with senior recruiters and learn how strategy and closing work in practice.
• Help shape how Radiant recruits; the processes, tools, and third-party platforms you help build and adopt now become the foundation the team scales on.
• Get hands-on exposure to hiring across multiple technical functions: electrical, mechanical, software, and more.

Required Qualifications and Skills

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university.
• 0–2 years of experience in recruiting, sales, sourcing, or coordination, or equivalent experience.
• A genuine pull toward hardware, nuclear, physics, or AI/ML; you don't need an engineering background, just real curiosity.
• A bias toward action: you move quickly, problem-solve on the fly, and know when to raise your hand for help.
• The ability to hold a genuine conversation with technical candidates, curious enough to ask good questions, and honest enough to admit when something's outside your depth.

Desired Qualifications and Skills

• A bachelor's degree in a STEM-related major is a plus.
• Any prior exposure to hardware, software, engineering, or tech recruiting, even informally.
• Comfort picking up new tools such as LinkedIn Recruiter, ATS, sourcing, LLM platforms, even without direct prior experience.

Additional Requirements

• Willingness to work extended hours and weekends as necessary to accomplish our mission.
• Must work 100% onsite at El Segundo HQ.