Technical Sourcer, The Boring Company
+ Equity
5 days a week in office (Bastrop, TX)
Building tunnels for transportation, utility & freight
Job no longer available
Building tunnels for transportation, utility & freight
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
+ Equity
5 days a week in office (Bastrop, TX)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To solve traffic, enable rapid point-to-point transportation and transform cities
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s Degree
- 3+ years of researcher or technical sourcer experience; either within tech, executive search, or recruitment agencies
- Experience in the technical recruiting industry
Desirable
- Experience recruiting for technical roles, including Software Engineers (SWE), Mechanical Engineers (ME), and Electrical Engineers (EE)
- Experience working in a start-up environment either in-house recruiting or at an executive search firm or agency
- Experience working under OFCCP rules
- Ability to distinguish between the top 50% and the top 5% of talent within their respective fields
- Demonstrated expertise in non-standard recruiting methods: identifying industry experts and finding unique methods to engage with them, creating unique targeted sourcing campaigns, organizing and executing ad hoc networking events, etc
- Comfortable interfacing directly with leadership to understand top of funnel metrics and market research analysis and trends
- Ability to build strong relationships with both hiring teams and candidates
- Ability to multi-task and operate with little direction while still being an active team member
What the job involves
- As a Boring Company Technical Sourcer, you will help identify top-tier engineering talent through creative and strategic sourcing techniques
- Not only will you help bring on some of the best engineers (top 1%), you will also build market research and top of funnel analysis to help inform the team of where this talent sits and how to engage
- In many cases, you are candidates’ first encounter with The Boring Company and it is your job to represent the company with professionalism, pride, and enthusiasm
- This position requires a high degree of autonomy and someone who can take initiative, take responsibility, and run with tasks to completion
- Proactively build and and manage talent pipelines across all engineering roles to ensure a steady flow of qualified candidates
- Identify and map talent within the industry to align with current and future hiring needs
- Create creative sourcing strategies to identify top engineers
- Come up with out of the box approaches to engaging with the best engineering talent; this may mean setting up community events and other methods of attracting top talent
Our take
Addressing urban congestion, The Boring Company aims to build tunnel systems in major US cities, as well as products that help transport materials underground with as little disruption as possible. Founded by Elon Musk, the company boasts both strong initial support as well as a good deal of scepticism towards its mission.
The company has raised impressive funding, including a $675 million Series C in 2022, and is a certified Unicorn. It has completed successful tunnel projects in Las Vegas, although safety concerns were raised in 2024 regarding a tunnel planned to span 68 miles beneath the Nevada city.
Its certainly an interesting proposition, but we will have to wait and see how The Boring Company's projects really fare in reducing overground traffic. Meanwhile, the success of the company has been a little obscured by the use of its website to advertise zombie apocalypse “not-a-flamethrowers” and a retail page for Elon's “Burnt Hair” fragrance.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2022
$675m
SERIES C
Jul 2019
$120m
LATE VC
Total funding: $907.5m
Company benefits
- Employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 401(k) plan
- Paid holidays & paid vacation
- Equity for all permanent employees
Company HQ
Bastrop, TX
Leadership
Elon Musk
(Founder)CEO of X and Tesla. Co-founder of SpaceX.
Steve Davis
(CEO)On the Board of Advisers at Atlas Society. Former owner of Mr. Yogato and Thomas Foolery.
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