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title: "University Recruiter at Perplexity AI"

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date_posted: "2026-11-05T01:00:15.669Z"

verified: "2026-11-06T01:12:24.718Z"

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# University Recruiter

**Company:** Perplexity AI

**Location:** San Francisco; New York City

**Remote signal:** No

**Published:** 2026-11-05T01:00:15.669Z

**Verified by JobHunter:** 2026-11-06T01:12:24.718Z

## 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.).

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