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# Technical Sourcer – Hardware at Loft Orbital Solutions

- **Company:** Loft Orbital Solutions
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** contract
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/loftorbital/5236d3cb-e968-487c-8e67-acaa39f455ba

## Job description

Wanna join the adventure?

We’re looking for a Technical Sourcer with a strong background in hardware and engineering talent identification to support Loft Orbital’s growing hiring needs on a six-month contract, with the possibility of extension. In this remote role, you’ll focus on proactively identifying, engaging, and building pipelines of highly specialized engineering talent for some of our most challenging positions. You’ll work closely with our recruiters and hiring managers to develop targeted sourcing strategies, map competitive talent markets, and connect with exceptional passive candidates across hardware engineering disciplines.

Must Haves:

- 3+ years of technical sourcing or recruiting experience, with a strong focus on hardware and engineering talent.
- Demonstrated expertise in proactive headhunting, including LinkedIn Recruiter, advanced Boolean search, talent mapping, and creative sourcing techniques to identify hard-to-find candidates.
- Experience sourcing technical talent across hardware engineering disciplines, including mechanical engineering, electrical/electronics, embedded systems, firmware, RF/wireless, systems engineering, and hardware test.
- Strong understanding of hardware engineering concepts and terminology, including CAD, PCB design, embedded systems, microcontrollers, FPGA, RF systems, and hardware verification and validation.
- Proven ability to identify and engage passive candidates for niche, highly specialized engineering positions.
- Experience conducting initial candidate outreach, generating interest, and evaluating basic technical alignment before handing candidates over to recruiters.
- Ability to independently develop sourcing strategies, identify target companies, and build talent pipelines for multiple technical requisitions.
- Strong research and market-mapping skills, with the ability to identify relevant companies, emerging talent pools, and competitive hiring markets.
- Ability to effectively pitch Loft’s mission, culture, and technical challenges to highly specialized, passive candidates.
- Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple sourcing priorities while maintaining accurate candidate records and pipeline activity.
- Proficiency with LinkedIn Recruiter and ATS tools (Lever preferred), including maintaining accurate sourcing pipelines and tracking outreach activity.
- Collaborative mindset and ability to work closely with recruiters and hiring managers, providing sourcing insights, market intelligence, and candidate recommendations.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work independently in a remote environment.

Nice to Haves:

- Direct experience sourcing talent within the space, satellite, aerospace, defense, or adjacent complex hardware/deep-tech industries.
- Experience sourcing for specialized profiles such as avionics, GNC, RF engineering, PCB/board design, manufacturing engineering, or assembly, integration, and test (AI&T).
- Prior experience as a dedicated technical sourcer, research specialist, or sourcing partner within an in-house recruiting team or agency.
- Experience supporting high-volume sourcing initiatives or rapid engineering team expansion.
- Knowledge of US and European aerospace and hardware engineering talent ecosystems, including key companies, startups, and talent hubs.
- Familiarity with ITAR, EAR, and compliance considerations relevant to US-based space and defense hiring.
- Experience using sourcing analytics to track outreach effectiveness, candidate engagement, and pipeline conversion.
- Prior experience supporting startup or high-growth technical organizations.

*Research shows that while men apply to jobs where they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women and other underrepresented people tend to only apply when they meet 100% of the qualifications. At Loft, we value respectful debate and people who aren’t afraid to challenge assumptions.  We strongly encourage you to apply, even if you don’t check all the boxes.

## Who We Are

Loft: Space Made Simple.

Founded in 2017, Loft provides governments, companies, and research institutions with a fast, reliable, and simple way to deploy missions in orbit.

We integrate, launch, and operate spacecraft, offering end-to-end missions as a service across Earth observation, IoT connectivity, on-orbit AI, national security missions, and more. Leveraging our existing space infrastructure and an extensive inventory of satellite buses, Loft is reducing years-long integration and launch timelines to months. With more than 30 missions flown, Loft’s flight heritage and proven technologies enable customers to focus on their mission objectives.

With a growing fleet on track to reach 30 satellites by 2027, we are scaling up quickly across our offices in San Francisco, CA | Golden, CO | and Toulouse, France to meet accelerating demand for space infrastructure.

As an international company your resume will be reviewed by people across our offices so please attach a copy in English.

## About Loft Orbital Solutions

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Loft Orbital is a space infrastructure company that provides simple, fast, and reliable ways for customers to deploy and operate physical payloads and software missions in low Earth orbit.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C – $170M round announced, total funding $326.9M)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States (with additional offices in Golden, Colorado and Toulouse, France)
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Not listed in provided sources

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Defense and Space Manufacturing
- **Target Customers**: B2B – commercial space startups, established aerospace and defense primes, cloud and AI companies, and government agencies worldwide (including U..S, France, Canada)
- **Mission/Purpose**: “Space Made Simple” – enabling customers to focus on their mission while Loft handles end-to-end space infrastructure

## Products & Services
- **Physical Payload Missions**: Loft integrates, tests, launches, and operates customer hardware payloads on its standardized satellite platforms (e.g.., optical, hyperspectral, RF sensors).
- **Virtual / Software-Only Missions**: Customers can deploy software directly to Loft’s on-orbit satellites to process and analyze data in near-real time (e..g., AI edge processing via partners like SkyServe, SSCI).
- **YAM (Yet Another Mission)** satellites: A fleet of multi-mission satellite buses available for rapid deployment; Loft maintains an inventory of pre-assembled platforms.
- **Hub & Cockpit**: Proprietary hardware and software abstraction layers that simplify payload integration and satellite operations.
- **Loft Federal**: A FOCI-mitigated division focused on US national security space missions (only US citizens).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (total funding $326..9M – LinkedIn)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding $326..9M (8 rounds incl. $170M Series C); Annual Revenue estimated $27..8M (LinkedIn)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Lead seed investor Uncork Capital; partners include Honeywell (Canadian Space Agency mission), Wyvern (Dragonette constellation), Esper, Helsing, SmartSat CRC, EarthDaily ($150M constellation), SkyServe, SSCI, Airbus OneWeb Satellites (15 bus order).
- **Growth Signals**: 270 employees (+14.9% YoY), 41k+ LinkedIn followers (+41.4% YoY), 14 satellites launched, 60+ customers, 15+ AI missions on-orbit, selected as prime contractor for France’s first space-based radar imaging program.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Standardized Satellite Platform**: Uses a commodity satellite bus with custom hardware/software layers, eliminating non-recurring engineering and enabling “turnkey” plug-and-play.
- **Speed to Orbit**: Maintains an inventory of pre-assembled buses and pre-booked launches, drastically reducing lead times compared to traditional aerospace.
- **Flight Heritage**: Over 600 copies of the bus in orbit today, providing proven reliability
- **Misson Agnosticism**: Can fly any payload that fits within standard platform constraints; supports both physical and virtual missions.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expand AI Edge Computing**: Deploying onboard AI processing (e..g., STORM from SkyServe, POET experiment for SDA) to enable near-real-time decision making.
- **National Security Growth**: Loft Federal continues to win US government contracts.
- **Constellation Scale-Up**: Partnering with EarthDaily for $150M satellite constellation; ordering 15 additional buses from Airbus OneWeb.
- **International Partnerships**: Strengthening ties with France (prime contractor for radar imaging) and Canada (SmartSat CRC, Honeywell).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Collaborative, respectful, professional environment described as “non-negotiable.” Rated 4..5/5 on LinkedIn (35 reviews) with Culture 4.5, Compensation 4.1, Work-Life 3.6, Career 4.2.
- **Wor Environment**: Distributed team with core hubs in San Francisco, Golden (CO), and Toulouse. Supports remote collaboration but roles may require on-site presence (per job listings). Recruiting process involves intro call, technical screening, challenge, and hiring panel.
- **Notable Perks**: Opportunity to work on cutting-edge space infrastructure with a fast-growing company; involvement in both commercial and government missions; international team.

## Sources
1. [loftorbital..com](https://loftorbital.com/)
2. [loftorbital.com/about/](https://loftorbital.com/about/)
3. [loftorbital.com/careers/](https://loftorbital.com/careers/)
4. [jobs.lever.co/loftorbital](https://jobs.lever.co/loftorbital/)
5. [linkedin.com/company/loft-orbital](https://www.linkedin.com/company/loft-orbital)

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