Senior Recruiter University and Alternative Channels
Shield AI is a U.S. defense-technology company developing mission-autonomy software and autonomous aircraft for military and allied operations.
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About Shield AI
Founded in 2015, Shield AI builds Hivemind autonomy software and V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft for operations in contested, GPS- and communications-denied environments. Its current site also presents Aechelon synthetic-reality simulation and Vision Systems detection and tracking products.
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Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own university recruiting strategy, including school selection, annual planning, budgets, campus branding, pipelines, and full-cycle hiring. You will manage intern and graduate recruiting, improve candidate evaluation and onboarding, oversee intern conversion, and use hiring metrics to shape future recruiting strategy.
Requirements
- 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience
- 3+ years of university, early-career, or campus recruiting experience
- Campus recruiting strategy
- Technical engineering hiring
- Workforce planning
- Funnel metrics
- Conversion analysis
- ROI analysis
- Applicant tracking system
- Sourcing tools
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
- AI, robotics, aerospace, or defense recruiting experience
- Internship or co-op program experience
- ITAR/EAR
- Work authorization
Responsibilities
- Own university recruiting strategy, target schools, annual plans, calendars, and budgets
- Collect hiring demand for interns, co-ops, and intern-to-full-time conversions
- Build campus brand relationships and early candidate pipelines
- Represent the employer at career fairs, tech talks, and information sessions
- Run full-cycle recruiting for intern, co-op, and new graduate roles
- Maintain structured candidate evaluation and interview calibration
- Extend offers and support compensation benchmarking
- Own the accepted-offer-to-Day-1 experience
- Partner on mentorship matching, project scoping, reviews, and intern events
- Own the intern conversion cycle
- Report on hiring demand, offer rates, conversion, diversity, and school ROI
