Recruiting cleared engineers for the platforms that see everything.
EO/IR, SIGINT, UAS, and ground-based collection. The engineers who build the systems that define the battlespace.
ISR platform talent operates at the intersection of optics, signal processing, avionics, and software — all inside a cleared environment with ITAR constraints layered on top. The engineers who design EO/IR payloads or SIGINT collection systems are not interchangeable with other defense electronics talent. Finding them requires understanding the architecture, not just reading a resume for keywords.
ITAR and clearance together shrink the pool dramatically.
Most ISR platform work is ITAR-controlled. That restricts the candidate pool to US citizens or lawful permanent residents — and often further, based on program access requirements. Add TS/SCI and polygraph requirements and you’re sourcing from a population that may be measured in hundreds, not thousands. Generic tools that don’t understand ITAR aren’t screening the right pool from the start.
Payload specialists and collection managers leave fingerprints in your ATS.
The EO/IR engineer who interviewed two years ago but took a counter-offer. The SIGINT analyst who went to a prime on a different program. They’re in your system. They have active clearances. Claude can find them — not by keyword, but by reading the context of their prior evaluation the way a senior recruiter would.
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