Recruiter Jobs in Washington, D.C., USA

Looking for a recruiter job in Washington, D.C.? Choose from 22 open roles at 10 employers. Explore real salary data and skills breakdown across remote, hybrid and on-site roles.

22 Open roles
10 Companies hiring
โ€” Average salary

What do Recruiters and people teams in Washington, D.C. work on?

Most of the titles are recruiting roles rather than broader HR positions, though the sample includes a Senior HR Business Partner and an equity compensation manager. Recruiting work spans the full cycle: sourcing, pipeline management, offer close, and advising hiring managers on compensation and talent strategy. Several roles are explicitly tied to cleared or defence-adjacent talent pools, as seen in the Senior Technical Recruiter โ€“ Physical AI & Defence at Applied Intuition and the Senior Technical Recruiter, Federal at Horizon3.AI.

Hardware recruiting appears across multiple postings, with the Senior Leadership Recruiter, Hardware at Anduril focusing on Director-to-VP-level searches and advising C-suite on compensation. The CW Production Recruiting Lead combines personal full-cycle execution with oversight of centralised recruiters. The Emerging Talent Recruiter, Technical covers university recruiting and early-career pipelines. The Senior HR Business Partner at MongoDB shifts toward organisational design and workforce planning rather than sourcing.

Skills and experience employers ask for

The skills table reflects keyword mentions in job descriptions across these postings, not formal requirements. Computer vision appears in a majority of postings, which likely reflects the defence and autonomous-systems context of the dominant employer rather than a recruiter skill. Evaluation appears in roughly a quarter. Cloud platforms and AI terms appear in only a small minority. A master's degree is mentioned in just one posting. Treat these counts as signals about employer context, not a checklist.

Computer vision 50%
Evaluation 36%
AWS 14%
GCP 14%
Azure 14%
LLMs 5%
Agents 5%
Go 5%
A/B testing 5%
Master's degree 5%

Recruiter roles that state a salary

The employers' own advertised ranges, for individual roles at different levels โ€” not an average and not a market rate.

Washington, D.C. office, hybrid or remote?

The strong majority of postings on this page are listed as onsite, with a smaller number stating hybrid arrangements and only one listed as remote. No postings have an unknown work mode. Candidates should read each listing carefully: the Emerging Talent Recruiter summary references a Costa Mesa, CA base despite appearing in this D.C. grouping, which suggests location details in individual postings may differ from the city filter. Hybrid terms and onsite expectations are not standardised across employers and are not further detailed in these summaries.

Make your application specific to the work

  1. Check security clearance requirements Several postings explicitly mention cleared or clearance-eligible candidate pools; confirm whether a role requires an active clearance before applying, as this affects both eligibility and timeline.
  2. Match your seniority level The postings range from coordinator and emerging-talent roles through to senior, lead, manager and director levels; read the years-of-experience and scope expectations in each listing to find the right fit.
  3. Note contract versus permanent status Some titles in these postings are explicitly labelled as contract roles; confirm employment type early, as terms, benefits and duration will differ from permanent positions.
  4. Verify location and work mode Because most postings are listed as onsite and individual summaries may reference locations outside D.C., confirm the exact office location and any hybrid flexibility stated in the full job description before submitting.

Questions about Recruiter jobs in Washington, D.C.

Only one posting in this group advertises a pay range: the Senior Technical Recruiter โ€“ Physical AI & Defence at Applied Intuition lists 140,000โ€“180,000 USD. All other postings do not state compensation, so figures for those roles are unknown from these listings alone.

Several postings, particularly those focused on federal, defence, and aerospace hiring, reference cleared or clearance-eligible talent pools and imply recruiter familiarity with that space. Whether a clearance is required for the recruiter themselves is not explicitly stated in every summary; check each listing individually.

One posting in this group is listed as remote. The majority are onsite, with a small number hybrid. If remote or hybrid working is important to you, filter accordingly and confirm current arrangements directly with the employer.

The employers named in these postings include Anduril Industries, MongoDB, Applied Intuition, Accenture Federal Services, Axon, Diligent Corporation, CHAOS Industries, and Citian, among others. Anduril accounts for the largest share of postings on this page.

Yes. The sample titles include a Recruiting Coordinator, an Emerging Talent Recruiter, and a Technical Sourcer, which typically sit below senior or executive level. However, seniority details for a portion of postings are not stated, so reviewing individual descriptions is advisable.

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