Director, Talent Acquisition

About the Company

Adelphi builds AI/ML-enabled secure data access and sharing technology for the U.S. intelligence and defense communities. Having closed a $7M Seed round in August 2025, Adelphi serves customers across the Intelligence Community and the Department of War.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end hiring across Adelphi, driving high-touch candidate experiences from outreach to offer negotiations
• Design and execute specialized sourcing strategies for Forward Deployed AI Engineers and other technical roles
• Conduct structured, scorecard-based interviews in partnership with technical evaluators
• Build and document foundational recruiting infrastructure including trackers, process guides, and offer frameworks
• Manage external partner relationships and negotiate terms with recruiting agencies and sourcing platforms

Requirements

• Proven track record of standing up recruiting functions from scratch
• Deep hands-on experience recruiting and closing top-tier AI/ML and technical engineering candidates
• Direct experience recruiting technical talent for government, defense, or intelligence agency customers
• Experience scaling pipelines for customer-facing technical roles
• Ability to operate at both strategic and tactical levels
• Must be clearance eligible

Benefits

• 100% employee premium and 50% dependents premium coverage of a platinum-level healthcare plan
• 401K with 2% company match
• $500 monthly Physical and Mental Health reimbursement program
• Unlimited time-off policy
• Competitive salary and equity compensation