Talent Sourcer (6-month contract)

Pyka is looking for a technical sourcer contractor with at least 1 year of experience who’s scrappy, strategic, and relentless in tracking down top-tier talent. You’ll play a key role in building talent pipelines for Pyka’s engineering, manufacturing, and flight operations — driving candidate engagement from the first outreach to hand-off with the recruiter.

You’ll partner with our Sr. Recruiter, hiring managers, and the People team to deeply understand our open roles, team dynamics, and the unique skill sets needed to build autonomous aircrafts that change the world.
This role is perfect for someone who’s excited by hard-to-fill roles, loves sourcing puzzles, and thrives in an early-stage, fast-paced environment.

About Pyka

Pyka’s goal is to provide society with a new form of safe, clean, and cost-effective transportation enabled by autonomous electric aviation.

To get there, we’re taking a different approach than most. We're applying our technologies to every industry where autonomous electric aircraft can be useful, starting with the highest value and most dangerous jobs. In doing so, we're building game-changing products manufactured at scale, while perfecting the safety, reliability, and capabilities of our autonomy engine and electric propulsion systems. 

We design, develop and manufacture an ecosystem of technologies including proprietary flight control software, avionics, high power density motors, motor controllers, batteries, and custom carbon-fiber composite airframes.

Today, we supply autonomous electric aircraft for cargo transport and crop protection to real-world customers across four separate continents and have secured industry-first regulatory approvals from the FAA. 

Our cargo aircraft enables remote connectivity, enhances express delivery networks, and ensures fast and reliable shipping of critical supplies to areas in need. Our crop protection aircraft offers agricultural services providers and farmers an autonomous tool to make aerial application safer, more precise, and less harmful to surrounding environments. Both vehicles are highly economical to operate, easy to deploy, and significantly reduce C02 emissions in their respective industries. 

What you work on at Pyka makes people’s lives better now and brings the future of electric aviation one step closer each day. 

Responsibilities

• Source passive technical talent through LinkedIn, Juicebox, social platforms, niche communities, and boolean searches
• Build and nurture talent pipelines for priority roles in engineering, flight operations, manufacturing, and beyond
• Partner closely with hiring teams to define ideal candidate profiles and sourcing strategies
• Track pipeline health and sourcing metrics using Greenhouse
• Own the candidate outreach experience, from cold message to warm handoff
• Stay current on market trends and sourcing tools; test and recommend new approaches

Preferred Qualifications

• 1+ year of experience sourcing technical talent (software, hardware, etc.) in a startup environment
• Strong sourcing chops with tools like LinkedIn Recruiter, and creative search strategies
• Excellent communication and follow-through skills
• Ability to juggle multiple roles and priorities without dropping the ball
• Comfortable with ambiguity and iteration—Pyka moves fast, and so do you
• Bonus if you’ve worked on roles involving aviation, robotics, or autonomy

Company Perks

• Wage range of $45-53/hr. Compensation will vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Hourly wage ranges are subject to change.
• Flexible remote work
• Lunches and snacks available in-office
• Supportive, collaborative team culture

Export Control Requirements

This position requires access to technology, software and other information that is subject to governmental access control restrictions, due to export controls.  Employment in this position is conditioned on the continued availability of government authorization to authorize release of such items, to the extent required, including without limitation an export license, or other documentation required to establish authorization to receive access to such items. 

Company may delay commencement of employment, rescind an offer of employment, terminate employment, and/or may modify job responsibilities, compensation, benefits, and/or access to Company facilities and information systems, as Company deems appropriate, in order to ensure compliance with applicable government access control restrictions.

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We do not work with external recruiters; if you are an external recruiter, please do not reach out.