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title: 'Recruiter at Adelphi'
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# Recruiter at Adelphi

- **Company:** Adelphi
- **Location:** Washington, DC
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-28
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/adelphi-ai/8cf3dda5-2548-4f93-963d-ee780dccb975

## Job description

## About Adelphi

Adelphi's Vision is to build the biggest AI Deployment company for National Security, which requires talent that is extremely good at problem solving, gets excited about National Security challenges, and thrives in software factories. We're executing a Mission that (1) Identifies the core bottlenecks in Warfighting, Intelligence and the Enterprise, (2) Assigns top talent with backgrounds in systems and machine learning engineering, and (3) Finds repeatability in solution development to target similar offices across the DoW/IC. The business has 10x'd in under two years and has built trust with the senior most leaders at the Department of War and Intelligence Community.

## About the role

We're looking for a Recruiter to own hiring end to end, working directly with our Head of Talent. Adelphi is a small, fast-moving startup building AI-native software for defense and national security customers, and we are growing across engineering and the business. You'll run full-cycle recruiting for technical and non-technical roles, from the first sourcing message to a signed offer. This is a hands-on role with real ownership from day one, and you'll have a hand in building how we hire as the company grows. Location: Washington, DC/McLean, VA metro area but Remote within the US OK

## What you'll do

- Own full-cycle recruiting for technical roles (forward deployed engineers, software engineers, ML engineers) and non-technical roles across the business
- Source passive candidates through outbound outreach, referrals and your own network, and build pipelines for the roles we hire for on a rolling basis
- Run intro calls that tell the Adelphi story well and give candidates a clear picture of the role and the interview process
- Partner with hiring managers on intake, calibration, interview loops and timely feedback
- Keep our ATS (Ashby) accurate and current so pipeline, stage and scheduling data is something we can rely on
- Manage scheduling and candidate communication so every candidate has a great experience, whatever the outcome
- Close candidates: run the offer process with the Head of Talent and keep candidates warm through to their start date
- Help build the recruiting function: process, templates, employer brand and our referral program

## What you'll bring

- 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, ideally in-house at a startup or fast-growing company
- A track record hiring software, ML engineers & Forward Deployed Engineers, plus experience with non-technical roles across a business
- Strong sourcing skills and real comfort with cold outreach to passive candidates
- The ability to sell a role, read a candidate and close an offer
- High ownership. You run your reqs end to end and don't wait to be asked.
- Clear, warm written communication and attention to detail in everything candidate-facing
- Experience hiring for cleared roles or in defense tech is a plus

## About Adelphi

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Adelphi provides secure, federated data connectivity for intelligence and defense organizations, enabling zero-movement data sharing, AI-powered analysis, and collaboration across siloed, sensitive environments.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; raised $7M)
- **Headquarters**: New York, United States
- **Founded**: Not publicly disclosed (earliest public mention is August 2025 fundraise announcement)
- **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed (team page indicates a "CEO + Co-founder" and "Board Director and Co-Founder" but names are not included in available materials)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: National security, defense intelligence, secure data infrastructure
- **Target Customers**: B2G – U.S. Intelligence Community (IC), Department of Defense, allied nations, and other classified/mission-critical environments
- **Mission Statement**: "To build technology that allows the Intelligence Community and Defense organizations to truly operate at speed of mission." [adelphi.ai/team](https://www.adelphi.ai/team)

## Products & Services
- **Adelphi Connector (Federated Data Connectivity)**: A modular, permission-based platform that connects to data sources in place – no ETL, no duplication. Enables real-time discovery and query across hundreds of databases, clouds, and air-gapped networks. Integrates with existing analyst workflows. [adelphi.ai](https://www.adelphi.ai/)
- **Privacy-Preserving Clean Rooms**: Controlled, auditable, non-attributable environments for sharing operational data across networks and organizations without moving or exposing raw data. [adelphi.ai](https://www.adelphi.ai/)
- **AI-Powered Data Connectivity**: AI-driven connectors that automatically discover and integrate diverse data sources with minimal setup. Supports MCP and equivalent agentic frameworks for automated intelligence workflows. [adelphi.ai/why-adelphi](https://www.adelphi.ai/why-adelphi)
- **Confidential Computing**: Secure execution environments that keep data encrypted, isolated, and auditable during processing. [adelphi.ai/why-adelphi](https://www.adelphi.ai/why-adelphi)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding $7.1M (Seed round, August 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Led by **Eniac Ventures** (Tim Young). Participants include **Flex Capital**, **Shaper Capital**, **Afore Capital**, **Essence Capital**, **Octave Capital**, plus unnamed angel investors. [adelphi.ai/fundraise-announcement](https://www.adelphi.ai/fundraise-announcement)
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - 83.3% year-over-year headcount growth (from 7 employees, per LinkedIn) [linkedin.com/company/adelphi-data](https://www.linkedin.com/company/adelphi-data)
  - Raised $7M seed round in August 2025 to accelerate product development and team expansion
  - Active hiring across engineering, product, and customer success roles

## Competitive Advantages
- **Zero Data Movement**: Federated architecture queries data in place, eliminating the security and compliance risks of traditional ETL and data migration.
- **Purpose-Built for Sensitive Environments**: Works across air-gapped networks, hybrid clouds, and compartmented systems with cryptographic trust boundaries and full audit trails.
- **Policy-Driven Access Control**: Permissions, time, and purpose govern data access – data owners retain control without copying data into a central repository.
- **AI-Native Integration**: Connectors support MCP and agentic frameworks, enabling automated discovery and analysis without manual configuration.
- **Domain Expertise**: Team members have deep operational and technical experience inside the national security and intelligence ecosystem, designing solutions that match how analysts actually work. [adelphi.ai/team](https://www.adelphi.ai/team)

## Strategic Focus
- Accelerate product development and scale the platform for broader deployment across U.S. and allied intelligence agencies.
- Expand the team across engineering, product, and customer success to meet growing demand.
- Deepen integrations with existing data sources and workflows, reducing time-to-value for customers.
- Continue to build trust and compliance features (confidential computing, clean rooms) as foundational differentiators.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven Impact**: Work on a critical national security problem – enabling secure, fast data sharing across the Intelligence Community and defense organizations.
- **Small, High-Growth Team**: 7 employees with 83% headcount growth in the last year; new hires will have significant ownership and influence.
- **Talent & Culture**: The team includes veterans from heavy regulated industries (Datavant, Reflexive Concepts, Equinix, etc.) who are "re-envisioning how secure data sharing can better unlock intelligence organizations' capabilities." [linkedin.com/company/adelphi-data](https://www.linkedin.com/company/adelphi-data)
- **Work Environment**: Headquarters in New York. Remote/hybrid policy not specified (likely flexible for the right candidates). Roles currently open include Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, and Senior Product Manager. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/adelphi-ai](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/adelphi-ai)
- **Technical Focus**: Emphasis on cutting-edge AI, confidential computing, and secure distributed systems – a strong fit for engineers interested in applied cryptography, data infrastructure, and national security technology.

## Sources
1. [adelphi.ai – Home](https://www.adelphi.ai/)
2. [adelphi.ai/team](https://www.adelphi.ai/team)
3. [adelphi.ai/why-adelphi](https://www.adelphi.ai/why-adelphi)
4. [adelphi.ai/fundraise-announcement](https://www.adelphi.ai/fundraise-announcement)
5. [LinkedIn – Adelphi Data](https://www.linkedin.com/company/adelphi-data)
6. [Careers Page – jobs.ashbyhq.com/adelphi-ai](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/adelphi-ai)

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