University Recruiter Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• 1–3 years of experience in recruiting, university relations, recruiting coordination, or a closely related role.
• Hands-on experience with campus or early-career recruiting, such as running career fairs, managing intern hiring, or building school relationships.
• Exceptional organization and follow-through, including the ability to manage an interview calendar and program pipeline concurrently.
• Ability to manage calendars across multiple stakeholders, time zones, and production shift schedules, and to judge when to resolve issues or escalate them.
• Clear, warm written and verbal communication with students, faculty, candidates, hiring managers, and cross-functional teams.
• Confidence presenting to groups and representing a company on campus.
• Proactive, service-minded approach and care for the experience of people participating in the recruiting process.
• Comfort working in ambiguity and helping build processes.
• Discretion and experience handling confidential and sensitive information.
• Willingness to travel periodically for campus events and conferences, primarily during fall and spring recruiting seasons.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in an in-house recruiting team.
• Experience recruiting engineering students for robotics, aerospace, defense, advanced manufacturing, or deep-tech hardware companies.
• Existing relationships with engineering programs, career centers, or robotics student organizations, especially in Texas and at top engineering schools nationally.
• Familiarity with student-focused platforms such as Handshake and ATS platforms such as Ashby, Rippling, Greenhouse, or similar.
• Experience with Google Workspace or Outlook scheduling tools.
• Experience building or running an internship program from scratch at a startup or high-growth company.
• Interest in robotics, AI, or advanced manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• Own the internship program from headcount planning with hiring managers through offers, onboarding, and end-of-summer conversion to full-time.
• Run full-cycle recruiting for intern and new-graduate roles across mechanical, electrical, software, robotics, controls, manufacturing, and corporate functions.
• Develop and maintain a target-school strategy and relationships with career centers, engineering faculty, research labs, and student organizations.
• Source students through channels beyond career fairs, including robotics competitions, hackathons, student research, GitHub projects, and engineering societies.
• Plan and represent Persona at career fairs, information sessions, tech talks, lab tours, and conferences on campus and at the Houston facility.
• Screen candidates for technical fundamentals, hands-on project experience, and interest in building robots.
• Design the intern experience with hiring managers and People Operations, including onboarding, cohort events, mentorship, and final project showcases.
• Track program results, including applicant flow, offer acceptance, intern satisfaction, and return-offer conversion, and use the results to improve future cohorts.
• Own interview scheduling for phone screens, multi-panel onsite loops, and debriefs across technical, manufacturing, and corporate searches.
• Manage calendars across hiring managers, interviewers, time zones, and production shift schedules, handling last-minute changes calmly.
• Coordinate onsite interview logistics, including conference rooms, interviewer coverage, candidate arrival, and day-of adjustments.
• Partner with recruiters on panel composition, interviewer preparation, and timely debriefs.
• Provide a warm, professional candidate experience throughout the recruiting process.
• Keep ATS data accurate and current to support reporting, compliance, and process consistency.
• Build templates, workflows, and documentation to scale university recruiting and interview scheduling, and identify bottlenecks.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Performance-based bonus
• 100% employer-covered medical benefits for most healthcare plans
• Early-stage equity
• Competitive PTO
• Company-wide paid winter break between December 24th and January 2nd