AI Solutions Engineer, Talent Acquisition

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Talent Operations Systems team is responsible for the systems data process and infrastructure that make Andurils recruiting function work at scale. We work in a highly cross-functional manner sitting between TA leadership recruiters business leaders and the people data team to drive recruiting processes and systems and turn fragmented operational data into a trusted decision-ready data product. Our work directly shapes how Anduril finds evaluates and hires the engineers operators and builders behind the future of defense and its how recruiting leadership knows where to invest whats working and where the funnel is breaking.

ABOUT THE JOB

We are looking for an AI Solutions Engineer Talent Acquisition to join our rapidly growing TA Operations team. This role is embedded within the TA Team and you will be the hands-on technical owner of AI and automation across Andurils TA function. You will build AI agents and automations that solve concrete recruiting problems improving efficacy and efficiency. You will use that to inform what gets built what gets bought and what doesnt get built at all. You will spend most of your time shipping primarily on strategically prioritized projects but also unblocking the team with home-grown ad hoc tools and quick-turn solutions. You will form a strong defensible point of view on where AI and automation will drive value across the recruiting funnel surface the highest-leverage opportunities and lead build-vs.-buy assessments grounded in scalability cost safety and compliance. You will own TAs AI and automation roadmap end-to-end communicating progress and tradeoffs to TA leadership giving regular read-outs and partnering with our TA Enablement team to drive baseline AI literacy across the broader recruiting org. This will require strong applied AI engineering chops (LLMs agentic workflows tool use retrieval evals) real software engineering rigor (Python APIs integrations version control testing deployment) and the judgment to ship pragmatic systems in a regulated environment. If you are someone who is energized by ambiguous problem spaces who can sit with recruiters and sourcers to understand their friction before writing a line of code who has strong opinions about when AI is the right tool and when it isnt and who wants to own both the build and the strategy behind it then this role is for you.

WHAT YOULL DO

• Build AI agents and automations that solve real recruiting problems sourcing screening outreach scheduling candidate research pipeline operations reporting with measurable ROI tied to recruiter time saved funnel improvements or hiring outcomes.
• Own TAs AI and automation roadmap end-to-end prioritization sequencing communication and progress read-outs to TA leadership and stakeholders.
• Partner closely with Andurils Corporate Technology team to understand the companys AI tooling model access infrastructure security posture and roadmap and design solutions that ride those rails rather than fight them.
• Form and defend a clear point of view on where AI and automation will and wont drive value across the recruiting function and proactively surface opportunities the team hasnt asked for yet.
• Lead rigorous build-vs.-buy assessments evaluating vendors internal platforms and custom builds against scalability total cost safety compliance and long-term maintainability.
• Ship pragmatically strategically prioritized initiatives most of the time but also fast home-grown solutions for ad hoc team requests when thats the rightcall.
• Partner with the TA Enablement team to drive baseline AI literacy across the recruiting org internal training documentation prompt patterns guardrails and best practices that recruiters and sourcers can actually use.
• Own the safety compliance and governance posture of every AI and automation system you ship PII handling role-based access audit trails model risk data residency and ITAR/CUI considerations where applicable.
• Define and instrument success metrics for every shipped system adoption time saved quality error rates cost per outcome and retire what isnt working.
• Establish lightweight engineering practices for the function version control testing evals deployment monitoring so AI work is durable rather than throwaway.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 4 years of hands-on technical experience building production software with at least 12 years of that focused on applied AI / LLM-based systems (agents tool use RAG evaluations automations).
• Genuinely curious about the recruiting / TA domain (prior experience strongly preferred) willing to sit with recruiters and sourcers learn their workflows and build for their problems rather than the most technically interesting ones.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals APIs and integrations version control testing CI/CD basic infrastructure and deployment.
• Production experience building AI agents or LLM-driven automations for use across a growing team (250 people) including prompt design tool use retrieval evaluation and the failure modes that come with non-deterministic systems.
• Experience integrating with SaaS APIs and stitching workflows across multiple tools comfort reading API docs handling auth rate limits pagination and webhooks.
• Demonstrated ability to identify high-leverage opportunities in an operational function ship working systems against them and quantify the impact.
• Strong build-vs.-buy judgment can rigorously evaluate vendors and internal platforms against custom builds on scalability cost safety compliance and maintainability.
• Comfortable owning a roadmap end-to-end prioritization communication to non-technical leadership and clear written read-outs.
• Strong written and verbal communication can explain technical tradeoffs to recruiting leadership and translate fuzzy operational pain into specific technical scope.
• Genuinely curious about the recruiting / TA domain willing to sit with recruiters and sourcers learn their workflows and build for their problems rather than the most technically interesting ones.
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Prior experience embedded in or directly partnering with a Talent Acquisition Recruiting Operations or People function as the primary technical owner of AI / automation.
• Familiarity with the modern recruiting stack Greenhouse Gem LinkedIn Recruiter Workday scheduling tools etc. and the ways their data and workflows fit together.
• Experience designing AI literacy programs internal enablement or hands-on training for non-technical end users.
• Background in defense aerospace financial services healthcare or another regulated industry where compliance PII handling and auditability are first-class requirements.
• Track record of retiring or replacing systems you previously shipped strong taste for what to kill and when to iterate not just what to build.

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience education and/or training critical skills and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Andurils total compensation package. Additionally Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees including:

Benefits

At Anduril we invest in our people. Our comprehensive competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures youre supported in health recovery and whatever comes next.For more information Explore Our Benefits.

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