# University Recruiter

**Company:** [Perplexity](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-companies/perplexity)
**Location:** San Francisco
**Work mode:** On-site
**Seniority:** Mid
**Category:** People & HR
**Department:** People
**Listed:** 2026-11-05

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## What you'll do

- Own full-cycle early career recruiting from sourcing to closing
- Partner with leaders on workforce planning, hiring strategy, evaluation
- Plan campus programming: talks, hackathons, interviews, VIP events
- Build talent brand and uncover hidden superstar talent

## What you need

- 4+ yrs full-cycle recruiting experience
- University, campus, intern or early-career hiring
- Willingness to travel up to 25%
- Strong organizational mindset for high-volume, high-pressure role

## Job description

Each year, Perplexity hires an exceptional cohort of early career talent to join our technical team. We’re looking for a University Recruiter to architect our early career programs and shape our strategy for attracting and evaluating the world’s most elite early-career talent.

  

This is a full-stack role where you’ll be responsible for all aspects of campus lifecycle recruiting: building relationships with external organizations, driving partnerships with internal stakeholders, and running full-cycle recruiting for all candidates. You’ll enjoy incredible latitude to design our programs and candidate experiences end-to-end, along with high-taste playbooks for how we bring the best and brightest to Perplexity.

  

### **What You’ll Do**

-   Own full-cycle recruiting process for all early career candidates from sourcing to closing.
    
-   Partner closely with leaders at Perplexity on workforce planning, hiring strategy, and candidate evaluation.
    
-   Build and scale a strategy that goes far beyond the usual playbooks. Explore creative, unconventional ways to build a talent brand and foster relationships that help uncover hidden superstar talent.
    
-   Plan and execute campus programming including but not limited to technical talks, coding competitions and hackathons, on-campus interviews, and VIP events.
    

### **What You Bring**

-   4+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience owning university, campus, intern or early-career hiring.
    
-   Strong organizational mindset–this role is high volume and pressure, juggling multiple workstreams and candidates that you’ll have to manage.
    
-   Willingness to travel up to 25%, concentrated during fall and spring recruiting seasons.
    

### **Nice to Have**

-   Existing relationships with top CS, ML and engineering programs, research labs or competitive programming communities (ICPC, USACO, etc.).

## Other open roles at Perplexity

- [Content Designer](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/perplexity/content-designer-0807f77b-4499-498a-b2bf-3cd44d965138) — San Francisco
- [Member of Technical Staff (GTM Engineer, Growth)](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/perplexity/member-of-technical-staff-gtm-engineer-growth-3b523d3a-23bd-4887-8e3c-239d14d66b06) — San Francisco
- [Procurement Lead](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/perplexity/procurement-lead-ba95ea8c-9aad-4152-925c-df08d6a90c0f) — San Francisco
- [IT Engineer](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/perplexity/it-engineer-2d510148-8cce-4b67-be25-5784106bbff4) — San Francisco
- [IP Paralegal](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/perplexity/ip-paralegal-e03bf342-0407-45aa-b084-9aaf6939eea5) — San Francisco

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