Recruiting Manager, Engineering

Divergent is building the new industrial age. Every day, our teams design, manufacture, and assemble advanced systems for some of the world’s most demanding industries. Our integrated engineering and manufacturing platform transforms complex designs into production-ready solutions, helping customers move faster, build smarter, and deliver critical systems when they matter most. Divergent is a qualified Tier 1 supplier to global automotive OEMs and supports leading U.S. aerospace and defense companies. Join us and help push the boundaries of what can be built. Purpose Divergent is seeking a Recruiting Manager, Engineering to lead and develop the recruiting team responsible for hiring exceptional engineering and technical talent across the organization. This is a hands-on, player-coach role that combines people leadership with full-cycle recruiting. In addition to managing and developing a team of engineering recruiters, you will personally own a portfolio of engineering requisitions and be responsible for sourcing, screening, managing candidates through the interview process, and closing hires. The ideal candidate is an experienced recruiting leader who enjoys both leading a team and recruiting. You understand how to identify and engage highly specialized engineering talent and can operate effectively in a fast-paced hardware, manufacturing, aerospace, automotive, robotics, or deep-tech environment. The Role Lead & Develop the Engineering Recruiting Team Lead, coach, and develop a team of recruiters supporting engineering and technical hiring across Divergent. Establish clear expectations for recruiter performance, pipeline management, candidate experience, hiring-manager partnership, and recruiting execution. Conduct regular 1:1s, pipeline reviews, and performance discussions with recruiters. Develop recruiter capabilities in technical sourcing, candidate assessment, stakeholder management, closing, and data-driven recruiting. Allocate requisitions and recruiting resources based on business priorities, hiring volume, role complexity, and recruiter capacity. Create accountability around recruiting commitments, follow-up, data accuracy, and results. Provide hands-on coaching and support on difficult searches, candidate situations, and hiring-manager challenges. Own & Recruit Engineering Requisitions Maintain an active requisition load while managing the engineering recruiting team. Personally own full-cycle recruiting for assigned engineering positions, including critical, senior-level, specialized, and difficult-to-fill searches. Partner directly with hiring managers to conduct intake meetings, define candidate profiles, establish interview processes, and develop recruiting strategies. Proactively source and engage passive engineering talent through LinkedIn Recruiter, Greenhouse, referrals, targeted research, networking, and other sourcing channels. Review applicants and conduct recruiter screens to…