What are the responsibilities and job description for the Technical Talent Sourcer (6-Month Contract) position at ChatGPT Jobs?
Job Description
Location: Menlo Park, CA
Mainspring Energy manufactures and delivers fuel-flexible, low-emissions local power solutions.
Job Overview
This is a high-impact, execution-focused sourcing role to accelerate technical team hiring over six months. You will own the top of the recruiting funnel for critical technical roles, partnering with recruiters and hiring managers to identify, engage, and qualify exceptional engineering talent. Role requires speed, precision, strong technical intuition, and comfort with modern sourcing technologies, including AI-powered tools.
What You’ll Do
Location: Menlo Park, CA
- Remote
Mainspring Energy manufactures and delivers fuel-flexible, low-emissions local power solutions.
Job Overview
This is a high-impact, execution-focused sourcing role to accelerate technical team hiring over six months. You will own the top of the recruiting funnel for critical technical roles, partnering with recruiters and hiring managers to identify, engage, and qualify exceptional engineering talent. Role requires speed, precision, strong technical intuition, and comfort with modern sourcing technologies, including AI-powered tools.
What You’ll Do
- Drive outbound sourcing campaigns for high-priority engineering roles
- Build targeted pipelines across hardware, mechanical, electrical, firmware, controls, manufacturing, and software engineering
- Conduct detailed talent mapping and market research for niche or hard-to-fill skill sets
- Partner with recruiters and hiring managers to align on candidate profiles and outreach strategies
- Develop personalized, high-conversion outreach communicating Mainspring’s mission, culture, technology, and growth
- Leverage sourcing platforms and alternative channels for high-signal candidates
- Utilize AI-enabled tools to improve search precision, messaging personalization, workflow efficiency, and candidate engagement
- Qualify and conduct initial outreach conversations
- Track sourcing metrics (response rates, conversion rates, from posting to interviews) and optimize strategy
- Maintain clean, accurate data within the ATS
- 3–7 years of technical sourcing experience in a high-growth or technical environment
- Demonstrated success sourcing engineers across hardware and software domains
- Strong proficiency with modern sourcing tools and talent intelligence platforms
- Experience leveraging AI tools for sourcing research, outreach personalization, candidate screening, and workflow efficiency
- Ability to quickly understand complex technical requirements
- Strong written communication skills
- Comfort managing multiple searches simultaneously under tight timelines
- High organization, ownership, and bias toward action
- Strong curiosity to understand technology