# University Recruiter at Perplexity

University Recruiter at Perplexity in San Francisco. Full-time, paying $165k–$200k. Posted November 5, 2026.

- Company: Perplexity
- Location: San Francisco
- Job type: Full-time
- Pay: $165k–$200k
- Experience: 4+ years
- Posted: 2026-11-05
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/perplexity/9ffca709-f4e1-40e7-81bf-270ff73c7a50/application
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/university-recruiter-perplexity-tn6sn0

## 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.).