Rahys Khan

I’m a specialist recruitment professional with a career built around understanding people, developing trusted relationships and connecting exceptional talent with organisations where they can make a genuine impact.

I began my recruitment career in 2021, initially specialising in the housing, homelessness and public-sector recruitment markets. During this time, I worked closely with Local Authorities and Housing Associations across the UK, recruiting across a broad range of positions from Officers and Coordinators through to Managers, Directors and Executive-level appointments.

My experience within the public sector has covered areas including Housing Advice & Options, Homelessness Prevention & Assessment, Housing Management, Tenancy & Neighbourhood Management, Strategic Housing and senior leadership. This gave me a strong foundation in specialist recruitment and taught me the importance of understanding the challenges, structure and requirements behind every organisation and every appointment.

Throughout my recruitment career, I’ve always taken a relationship-led approach. I don’t believe effective recruitment is simply about matching a CV to a job description. It’s about understanding the organisation, the technical and cultural requirements of the role, the challenges the hiring team is trying to solve and, equally, what the individual wants from their next career move. I’ve now taken that approach into the U.S. aerospace, space and defense technology market, where I specialise in Flight Software Recruitment. As Head of Flight Software Recruitment, I focus on connecting highly specialised engineering talent with organisations across the United States developing the next generation of aircraft, spacecraft, launch vehicles, autonomous systems and defense platforms.

I work with aerospace primes, space companies, launch providers, defense organisations and emerging aerospace technology businesses, helping them identify and attract the highly specialised engineers required to develop mission-critical systems.

What differentiates my approach is that I aim to understand the engineering behind the vacancy, not simply the job title. I take the time to understand the vehicle or platform, software environment, programming languages, RTOS, flight computer, hardware integration, certification requirements and wider engineering challenges involved.

My recruitment philosophy has remained consistent throughout my career: understand the market, understand the people and build relationships that create long-term value.

Today, my focus is on building the leading specialist recruitment desk for U.S. Flight Software and Embedded Engineering, connecting exceptional engineers with the organisations shaping the future of aerospace, space and defense.