Senior Recruiter, University and Alternative Channels

The role

You will own university recruiting end to end for Shield AI, from campus strategy and full-cycle hiring for interns, co-ops and new graduates to converting interns into full-time engineers. You will work with business and engineering leaders on demand, school selection, budget and offer acceptance.

What you will do

• Own the university recruiting strategy, including school portfolio, annual plan, calendar and budget
• Lead demand collection with business leaders for interns, co-ops and intern-to-full-time conversions
• Build the campus brand through technical storytelling and relationships with faculty, career centers and student organizations
• Represent the company at career fairs, tech talks and information sessions, and build early candidate pipelines
• Run full-cycle recruiting for all intern, co-op and new grad roles
• Maintain a structured, bias-reduced evaluation process and run interviewer training and calibration
• Extend timely offers and partner with Compensation on salary and housing stipend benchmarks
• Own the accepted-offer-to-Day-1 experience to reduce reneges
• Partner with the intern program team on mentorship, project scoping, reviews and intern events
• Own the intern conversion cycle through return-intern and full-time offers

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience
• At least 3 years focused on university, early-career or campus recruiting
• Demonstrated ownership of a campus strategy end to end, including school selection, events, budget and season execution
• Track record of high-volume technical hiring for engineering roles and closing candidates in a competitive market
• Experience partnering with senior business and engineering leaders on workforce planning
• Strong data skills: funnel metrics, conversion rates and ROI analysis
• Proficiency with an ATS and sourcing tools; able to build process, templates and reporting
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Willingness to travel during peak campus season
• A record of hard work, trustworthiness, high standards and kindness to others

Nice to have

• Experience recruiting in AI, robotics, aerospace or defense technology
• Experience running or supporting an internship or co-op program, including intern-to-full-time conversion
• Familiarity with U.S. defense-industry hiring considerations, including export control (ITAR/EAR) and work authorization for early-career candidates

Before you apply

• Familiarity with ITAR/EAR export control and work authorization rules is preferred

About the company

Shield AI builds its future engineering team through campus hiring, according to this posting. The company works across software, systems, electrical, mechanical and test engineering, and in AI, robotics, aerospace and defense technology.