Company Overview

Fortastra designs and delivers resilient, high-performance spacecraft that safeguard critical orbital assets and ensure freedom of action in space. We integrate advanced autonomy, sensing, and control into systems engineered for reliability, speed, and scale.

Our culture values simplicity, accountability, and disciplined execution. We expect leaders to think systemically, act decisively, and take ownership of mission outcomes. Aggressive innovation. Disciplined execution. Strength among the stars.

We recently closed a $30M Series A to build the future of on-orbit security and we’re just getting started!

Our People Team

You will join Fortastra’s People team, working closely with engineering leadership, product leadership, and executive management to scale our engineering and operations teams. The People team owns recruiting, onboarding, and core talent processes that enable a lean, high performing engineering organization.

The Role

Fortastra is seeking a Technical Recruiter to help scale our engineering and technical teams. This is an individual contributor will own recruiting processes, searches, and reporting with limited oversight.

You will be responsible for full cycle recruiting, be creative with sourcing and outreach for hard to fill technical positions, and coordinate interviews and offers. The ideal candidate has solid technical recruiting experience in aerospace start-ups, strong execution discipline, and enjoys operating in a fast-paced startup environment.

Key Responsibilities

Own full-cycle recruiting from sourcing through offer acceptance
Develop and execute sourcing strategies to identify highly qualified technical and non-technical candidates
Build and maintain candidate pipelines across engineering, product, operations, and business functions
Partner with hiring managers to define job requirements, interview plans, and hiring strategies
Conduct candidate screening and assessment activities
Coordinate and manage interview scheduling and candidate communications
Drive an exceptional candidate experience throughout the recruiting process
Track recruiting activity and provide regular pipeline updates
Support offer preparation and hiring process coordination
Help improve recruiting processes, systems, and best practices as the company grows
Represent Fortastra professionally in all candidate interactions and external recruiting activities

Qualifications and Skills

2+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience
Demonstrated success recruiting engineers and technical professionals in aerospace, defense, software, robotics, autonomy, or related industries
Proven ability to source and engage passive candidates for difficult-to-fill technical positions
Strong sourcing experience utilizing LinkedIn Recruiter, referrals, networking, and direct outreach
Experience managing multiple searches simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
Strong communication, organizational, and relationship-building skills
Experience using Greenhouse or similar applicant tracking systems
Ability to operate effectively in high-accountability startup environments
Strong attention to detail and commitment to candidate experience

Requirements

5 days on-site in Torrance, CA
U.S. Citizenship required and the ability to obtain or hold an active Top Secret clearance (US person considered)

Why Fortastra

We are a small, high-impact team building the next generation of autonomous orbital control systems for national security space. At Fortastra, leaders own outcomes from first principles through flight and directly shape the future of resilient, mission-critical spacecraft autonomy.

FORTASTRA TALENT & CULTURE PRINCIPLES

Values Driven by First Principles

We value engineers and operators who prioritize sound judgment, candor, technical rigor, bias for action, and intellectual honesty over corporate consensus. We care about the caliber of the system you build and the speed at which you solve problems.

Talent Density Over Headcount

A high-performing startup is built on dense talent, not organizational bloat. A single exceptional engineer designs, tests, and delivers faster than a bloated committee. We intentionally maintain a lean, elite engineering crew where every contributor directly moves the needle on the mission.