Early Career & University Recruiter

The role

You will build Mercor's university recruiting, early-career hiring, and internship programs from the ground up. You will own the strategy to identify, attract, and hire talent across engineering, machine learning, and business functions.

What you will do

• Develop and execute Mercor's approach to university recruiting, new-grad hiring, and internships
• Identify and engage high-potential students and early-career professionals through creative sourcing
• Drive sourcing, assessment, candidate engagement, and closing for intern and new-grad roles
• Establish the recruiting framework, selection process, and return-offer strategy for internships
• Develop initiatives such as hackathons, fellowships, student partnerships, and ambassador programs
• Work with hiring managers and functional leaders to define talent needs and hiring standards
• Establish metrics and operating processes to evaluate program effectiveness

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of recruiting experience, including meaningful ownership of university, early-career, or internship recruiting
• Demonstrated experience building or significantly transforming an early-career recruiting program
• Strong technical recruiting experience, particularly with engineering, computer science, or machine learning talent
• Exceptional sourcing creativity
• Ability to develop a strategy and independently translate it into execution
• Strong stakeholder management
• A data-driven approach to measuring recruiting effectiveness

Nice to have

• Experience building early-career or university recruiting programs in a high-growth startup environment
• Experience developing nontraditional talent pipelines, technical student communities, hackathons, or fellowship programs
• Experience designing internship recruiting programs that have delivered strong intern-to-full-time conversion

Benefits

• Bi-annual performance bonus structure
• Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
• Up to $15k Relocation bonus
• $10K housing bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of our office)
• $1.5K monthly stipend for meals
• $200 monthly laundry reimbursement
• $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement
• Health, Dental, Vision insurance

About the company

Mercor builds infrastructure that enables frontier AI labs and enterprises to train, evaluate, and improve AI on real-world professional work. The company is profitable and recently raised a $750 million Series D at a $20 billion valuation.