Technical Corporate Recruiter - National Defense, Security, Intelligence Communi

About Legion Let s be real, AI isn t magic; Legion was built to move beyond AI hype-delivering secure, reliable systems that work alongside the people tackling the world s most critical challenges. Born from a Department of Defense partnership and trusted by leaders across government and enterprise, Legion embeds intelligence inside complex systems, unlocking data, accelerating human workflows, and strengthening mission-critical systems. We don t replace workflows-we optimize them, ensuring quality, efficiency, and reliability inside the platforms our partners already use. With world-class collaborators like Palantir, Nvidia, HPE, and Oracle, we re building intelligent infrastructure that enhances human capability and drives impact at the edge and across a range of enterprises. We re looking for bold thinkers and doers to join us in shaping the future of AI that s secure, grounded, and built to work. Technical Corporate Recruiter - National Defense, Security, Intelligence Community (Remote US) ***US Citizenship is required due to US Government contract requirements*** ***This role requires that you must have experience recruiting for technical AI software candidates w/active clearance in the national military, defense, security, and intelligence community*** Role Responsibilities: • Own Full-Cycle Recruiting: Lead end-to-end recruiting across technical and non-technical functions, with a primary focus on highly specialized marketing, sales, engineering, AI/ML, infrastructure, product, and forward-deployed roles. • Partner With Leadership: Work directly with executives, hiring managers, and technical leaders to define hiring priorities, calibrate talent profiles, and influence organizational design decisions. • Build Recruiting Strategy: Develop and execute sourcing and hiring strategies for difficult-to-fill roles in highly competitive markets, particularly within AI, defense technology, and government-adjacent environments. • Drive Candidate Quality: Maintain a high hiring bar through thoughtful screening, interview calibration, structured evaluations, and strong partnership with interview teams. • Develop Talent Pipelines: Build proactive pipelines of exceptional candidates through outbound sourcing, networking, referrals, market research, and relationship-building. • Create Scalable Recruiting Operations: Improve and operationalize recruiting workflows, interview processes, candidate communication standards, and reporting infrastructure to support company growth. • Deliver Exceptional Candidate Experience: Ensure every candidate interaction reflects professionalism, responsiveness, transparency, and respect throughout the interview process. • Influence Employer Brand: Help shape how Legion is perceived externally by crafting compelling messaging, partnering on recruiting content, and communicating the company s mission and technical challenges effectively. • Advise on Compensation and Closing: Partner with leadership on compensation strategy, equity conversations, and offer negotiations to successfully close high-impact candidates. • Operate Cross-Functionally: Collaborate closely with engineering, product, security, operations, and executive leadership teams to ensure recruiting efforts align with business priorities. • Provide Market Intelligence: Continuously gather and communicate insights on hiring trends, competitor activity, compensation benchmarks, and talent market dynamics. • Own Recruiting Metrics: Track pipeline health, conversion rates, time-to-fill, and hiring efficiency while identifying opportunities to improve recruiting outcomes. Required Qualifications: • Experience recruiting highly technical talent: Significant experience recruiting for engineering, infrastructure, AI/ML, security, product, or other deeply technical roles in competitive markets. • Track record of successful hiring execution: Demonstrated ability to close difficult searches and consistently deliver high-quality hires in fast-paced environments. • Strong sourcing capabilities: Ability to identify, engage, and build relationships with exceptional talent through creative and persistent outbound recruiting strategies. • Experience working closely with technical stakeholders: Comfortable partnering directly with senior engineers, founders, executives, and hiring managers on role definition and candidate evaluation. • Excellent communication skills: Able to communicate effectively with candidates and internal stakeholders across all levels of technical sophistication. • Strong operational mindset: Ability to improve processes, build structure where needed, and operate effectively with limited recruiting infrastructure or support. • Ability to manage ambiguity: Comfortable operating in an early-stage environment where priorities shift quickly and processes are still evolving. • High degree of ownership: Able to independently drive recruiting initiatives, prioritize effectively, and execute with u...