Perplexity logo

University Recruiter

Perplexity

San Francisco, CAFull-time$165–200K/yrPosted todayStill listed today

Most applications go out cold — see where you stand first. No sign-up to start.

You apply on the employer's site, with no Olive account needed.

Watch jobs like this.

Don't just apply. Show up ready.

Olive works from this exact posting.

At a glance

Compensation
$165–200K/yr
Location
San Francisco, CA
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

Olive lists jobs from US employers, including remote roles you can work from the United States.

Job overview

Perplexity is seeking a University Recruiter to design early-career programs and strategies for attracting and evaluating technical talent. The role owns campus lifecycle recruiting, builds external relationships and internal partnerships, and shapes candidate experiences. It includes workforce planning and hiring strategy collaboration, creative talent-brand initiatives, and campus programming such as technical talks, coding competitions, hackathons, interviews, and VIP events.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Full-Cycle RecruitingOrganizational SkillsTravelWorkforce PlanningHiring StrategyCandidate EvaluationTalent BrandingCampus ProgrammingUniversity Relationships

Qualifications

4+ Years Recruiting Experience

Full 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.).

How this job compares

Set against the 1,796 open Recruiting jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$165–200K/yr
  • California median$130–175K/yr161 salary ranges
  • US median$90–123K/yr791 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $183K, is 19% above the California median midpoint ($153K) — in the middle half of Recruiting salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 286 open Recruiting jobs in California and 1,796 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience; Recruiting postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years at the median (1,132 postings).
Education
369 of the 1,796 open Recruiting jobs (21%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

Prepare for this role

You've read the whole posting — now see how you match it.