Top Aerospace HR & Recruiting Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Coordinates onsite interviews, candidate travel, and interview-day logistics while providing a positive candidate experience. Greets and tours candidates, supports recruiting and talent operations teams, assists with administrative tasks and special projects, and communicates SpaceX programs effectively. This temporary, six-month role requires full-time onsite work in Hawthorne, California, standard business hours, and overtime as needed.

Own full-cycle technical recruiting across hardware, software, AI/ML, and generalist roles. Responsibilities include sourcing niche candidates, partnering with hiring managers, developing job descriptions and interview processes, managing candidate pipelines, negotiating offers, maintaining recruiting infrastructure, tracking hiring metrics, and supporting employer branding. The recruiter will help build the company’s talent function and processes from the ground up in a fast-moving startup environment.

Advise leaders on people strategies, employee relations, performance management, talent development, organizational design, change management, workforce planning, compensation cycles, and manager coaching. Support exempt and non-exempt employees across engineering, manufacturing, and shop-floor teams while ensuring policy compliance, documentation, fairness, engagement, and accountability. Partner with People Operations, Recruiting, and Legal on scalable programs, investigations, and organizational transitions.

The Senior HR Manager will oversee HR functions in Torrance, lead HR initiatives, manage a team, ensure legal compliance, and improve employee engagement.

Manage full-cycle recruiting for technical roles across software, hardware, design, electrical, mechanical, and aerospace engineering. Partner with hiring managers, source and screen candidates, coordinate interviews, maintain ATS records, build talent pipelines, deliver strong candidate experiences, track recruiting metrics, and monitor market compensation trends.

Serve as the primary employee support resource across the lifecycle, handling questions, onboarding and offboarding documentation, HRIS data accuracy, background checks, compliance processes, audits, and escalations. Analyze employee experience trends and identify improvements to processes, policies, and communications while partnering with the broader People team.

Lead Apex’s talent acquisition function, including a recruiting team of approximately 10, hiring strategy, workforce planning, recruiting metrics, systems, executive searches, and long-term university, trade-school, and industry partnerships. The role requires high-volume hiring leadership, executive presence, people analytics fluency, modern ATS experience, and the ability to recruit technical, aerospace, manufacturing, and skilled-trade talent while meeting ITAR and U.S. person requirements.

Partners with managers and leaders, especially in production and manufacturing, to support performance management, employee relations, organizational design, change management, compliance, and scalable People programs. Coaches managers, handles investigations and sensitive employee matters, supports promotions and compensation discussions, and executes training, policy, communications, and documentation initiatives in a fast-growing organization.

Source and prescreen diverse technical talent for Mission Systems by partnering with recruiters and hiring managers, developing targeted sourcing plans, cultivating candidate relationships, researching market trends, promoting employer branding, using AI-powered sourcing tools, and tracking activity in applicant tracking and candidate relationship management systems.

Support learning initiatives by managing LMS, creating content, coordinating training, facilitating sessions, and evaluating program effectiveness.