Technical Sourcer

If your sourcing process starts and ends with LinkedIn Recruiter, this probably isn't the right fit. If you treat sourcing as a problem to be engineered rather than a task to be repeated, keep reading.

Minerva Defence is a UK sovereign defence technology company building the full stack of unmanned systems for modern warfare: hardware, software, networking, autonomy, navigation and effectors. Our mission is simple: to help ensure the UK and its allies can defend themselves in an era where major conflict is no longer unthinkable.

We are deliberately low-profile: no hype, no performative marketing, just execution. We ideate, design, and manufacture from start to finish right here in the UK. Our products are in active use on the battlefield today, delivering real operational impact in the most demanding environments. Despite operating largely in stealth, our team of 60 people is delivering disproportionate effect, with tens of millions in annual revenue across UK and non-UK customers.

Our culture is elite, innovative and mission-focused. We are built to be asymmetric: small in headcount, relentless in execution, and outsized in battlefield impact. We are looking for people who are not just talented, but committed: to the work, to the team, and to the purpose behind it.

Sourcing here carries more weight than it does at most companies. With little employer brand to do any of the work, the pipeline lives or dies on your ability to identify the right person in a technical discipline you may not have hired in before, write something worth reading, and earn enough trust to start a conversation about a company you can't share much about. The roles span the full technical stack, software and firmware, electronics, mechanical engineering, robotics, and everything adjacent. You'll build real working knowledge of each area. Alongside sourcing, you'll own the operational side of recruitment: scheduling, offers, coordination, and keeping the process running cleanly as hiring scales.

Responsibilities

• Source passive candidates across a wide range of technical disciplines, using whatever combination of tools, data, and lateral thinking gets to the right person
• Write outreach that works without a brand name behind it, specific, human, and worth a reply
• Build and run AI-assisted workflows to increase pipeline quality and speed without sacrificing relevance
• Screen candidates and assess fit against technical role requirements, in close collaboration with hiring managers
• Schedule and coordinate interviews across multiple stakeholders and disciplines
• Manage the offer process end to end, from preparation through to acceptance and start date
• Maintain clean records in our ATS and provide pipeline visibility to the team
• Develop enough technical literacy across our hiring disciplines to have credible early conversations with candidates

Requirements

Minimum:

• Proven track record in technical sourcing or recruitment, in-house or agency
• Demonstrably non-standard approach to finding candidates
• Fluent with AI tools and automation as part of everyday sourcing, not occasional experimentation
• Based in London, with eligibility for UK security clearance (UK citizen or 5+ years UK residency)

Preferred:

• Experience across both hardware and software hiring, or genuine curiosity about the disciplines you haven't worked in
• Exposure to deep tech, or similarly niche technical environments
• Experience building sourcing infrastructure from scratch rather than inheriting an existing setup
• Familiarity with Boolean search, LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, and adjacent sourcing surfaces
• End-to-end recruitment coordination experience
• Willingness for occasional UK based travel

Benefits

We try to take the everyday pressures off your plate, so you can do your best work without worrying about the noise, and the benefits are built around that. It starts with real ownership: share options that vest over three years, so you hold a genuine stake in what we are building. You get a Claude Team account on day one and tools that keep up with you. Bupa private health is fully funded from your first day, the pension is a 6% employer contribution, and leave is generous, with 25 days plus bank holidays, your birthday off, and properly enhanced cover for both parents. The full detail comes with your offer.