Early Career and University Relations Recruiter
Path RoboticsVisit Path Robotics website
Path Robotics develops physical-AI robotic welding systems for manufacturing.
Columbus, United States
Funding history
About Path Robotics
Path Robotics builds autonomous welding cells and mobile welding systems powered by its Obsidian AI model, which uses real-time sensing and adaptation to weld variable industrial parts.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will develop university partnerships and campus engagement strategies, recruit interns, co-ops, and early-career hires, and build structured internship programs. You will partner with hiring managers, technical leaders, and Marketing to strengthen talent pipelines, improve candidate experiences, and measure university investment outcomes.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in university recruiting, early careers, university relations, or technical talent programs.
- Experience building or significantly scaling an early-careers or university recruiting program.
- Experience developing relationships with universities, faculty, research labs, career centers, and student organizations.
- Experience recruiting technical talent, ideally in robotics, AI/ML, software, hardware, or engineering.
- Program management skills from strategy through hands-on execution.
- Experience using recruiting data and market insights to guide investments.
- Stakeholder management skills and ability to partner with technical leaders.
- Ability to work in a high-growth environment with changing priorities.
- Willingness to travel to universities, conferences, and recruiting events as needed.
Responsibilities
- Develop a strategy for target universities and technical programs.
- Build long-term relationships with professors, research labs, faculty, career centers, and student organizations.
- Develop campus engagement strategies, including career fairs, technical talks, research partnerships, and student events.
- Identify opportunities for engineers and technical leaders to build relationships with students and faculty.
- Manage end-to-end recruiting for interns, co-ops, and early-career hires.
- Source and engage high-potential students.
- Build talent communities and pipelines ahead of hiring needs.
- Partner with hiring managers to develop evaluation processes for early-career talent.
- Build and manage a structured internship and co-op program.
- Define intern projects, mentorship, expectations, and success measures with managers.
- Create programming that exposes early talent to technology, leadership, and the business.
- Lead intern and co-op conversion strategies.
- Gather feedback from interns and managers to improve the program.
- Build presence in university, robotics, AI, and engineering communities.
- Develop employer-brand content and campaigns with Marketing and technical leaders.
- Measure the effectiveness of events, partnerships, sponsorships, and university investments.
Benefits
- Daily free lunch
- Flexible PTO
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Fully paid parental leave
- 401(k) retirement plan through Empower
- Employee referral bonuses