Technical Recruiter
Parallel Systems
| Company | Parallel Systems |
| Category | HR & Recruiting |
| Location | Los Angeles |
| Remote | On-site (inferred) |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Not stated |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 7 Jul 2026 |
| Last verified | 30 Jul 2026 |
| Source | Employer career page (greenhouse) |
Description
Parallel Systems is pioneering autonomous battery-electric rail vehicles designed to transform freight transportation by shifting portions of the $900 billion U.S. trucking industry onto rail. Our innovative technology offers cleaner, safer, and more efficient logistics solutions. Join our dynamic team and help shape a smarter, greener future for global freight. Parallel Systems is pioneering autonomous, battery-electric rail vehicles designed to transform freight transportation by shifting portions of the $900 billion U.S. trucking industry onto rail. Our innovative technology offers cleaner, safer, and more efficient logistics solutions. Join our dynamic team and help shape a smarter, greener future for global freight.
Technical Recruiter
Parallel Systems is building autonomous, battery-electric rail vehicles to modernize freight transportation. We are hiring a Technical Recruiter to help us build the engineering and technical teams bringing this technology into the real world.
This role sits on the Talent team and reports to the Head of Talent. You will own full-cycle recruiting for assigned technical searches, with a focus on building exceptional hardware and software teams across engineering, vehicle development, manufacturing, and operations.
This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys sourcing, engaging passive candidates, managing a high-quality candidate experience, and working closely with hiring managers in a fast-moving startup. The ideal candidate began their recruiting career in an agency or search environment, developed strong outbound recruiting fundamentals, and has since moved into an in-house recruiting role at a startup or high-growth technical company.
You will play a meaningful role in helping Parallel build the team needed to bring autonomous rail technology into commercial operation.
Responsibilities:
Own full-cycle recruiting for assigned technical roles, from intake through offer close.
Partner with hiring managers to define role requirements, calibrate on the talent bar, build search strategies, and keep searches moving with urgency.
Build and execute outbound sourcing strategies for priority roles, including target company mapping, candidate research, outreach, follow-ups, and pipeline conversion.
Maintain a consistent sourcing cadence across assigned searches and use data to improve outreach quality, response rates, qualified screens, and interview conversion.
Recruit across both hardware and software functions, including mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, embedded systems, autonomy, controls, backend software, manufacturing, vehicle integration, and test engineering.
Screen candidates for technical alignment, relevant experience, motivation, compensation expectations, and likelihood to close.
Manage a structured and high-quality candidate experience throughout the process, including outreach, interview coordination, feedback collection, debrief support, candidate communication, and offer support.
Use Greenhouse, LinkedIn Recruiter, Noon.ai, and other recruiting tools to manage pipeline, maintain accurate data, and provide clear hiring manager visibility.
Identify practical opportunities to improve recruiting workflows, sourcing effectiveness, candidate communications, reporting, or interview process quality.
Represent Parallel in the market with credibility, professionalism, urgency, and sound judgment.
What Success Looks Like:
In 30 Days: You are independently supporting assigned searches, building sourcing plans, running outreach, presenting qualified candidates, and providing clear pipeline updates to hiring managers. You have established a consistent sourcing cadence and are generating qualified screens for priority roles.
In 60 Days: You have closed your first role and are actively progressing additional priority searches. You are demonstrating measurable sourcing performance across outreach activity, response rates, qualified
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