About this role

What You'll Do:

- Own Shield AI's university recruiting strategy end to end, including the target school portfolio, annual plan, calendar, and budget for your business

- Lead demand collection with business leaders for interns, co-ops, and intern-to-FTE conversions, driving iHIRE approvals and req postings on schedule for your business

- Build Shield AI's campus brand through technical storytelling, faculty and career center relationships, and engagement with robotics, AI, and diversity student organizations

- Represent Shield AI at career fairs, tech talks, and info sessions, and build early pipelines of high-potential candidates ahead of req approval

- Run full-cycle recruiting for all intern, co-op, and new grad roles for Aircraft

- Maintain a structured, bias-reduced evaluation process and run intern interview training and calibration to keep the bar consistent across teams and sites

- Extend timely offers within the standard framework by role, location, and level, and partner with Compensation on salary and housing stipend benchmarking

- Own the accepted-offer-to-Day-1 experience to reduce reneges and strengthen onboarding readiness

- Partner with the intern program team on mentorship matching, project scoping, reviews, and intern events

- Own the intern conversion cycle, from identifying full-time-eligible interns through extending return-intern and full-time offers

- Report on demand fulfillment, offer and accept rates, conversion, diversity, and school ROI, and use those metrics to reshape each season's strategy

Required Qualifications:

- 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with at least 3 years focused on university, early-career, or campus recruiting

- Demonstrated ownership of a campus strategy end to end — school selection, event planning, budget, and season execution — not just requisition execution

- Track record of high-volume technical hiring for engineering roles, and of closing candidates in a competitive market

- Experience partnering directly with senior business and engineering leaders on workforce planning and demand

- Strong data instincts: you build and use funnel metrics, conversion rates, and ROI analysis to make decisions and to influence leaders

- Proficiency with an ATS and sourcing tools; comfort building process, templates, and reporting from scratch

- Excellent written and verbal communication; you represent the company credibly to students, faculty, and executives

- Willingness to travel during peak campus season

- A demonstrated record of working hard, being a trustworthy teammate, holding yourself and others to high standards, and being kind to others

Preferred Qualifications:

- 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 processes

- Familiarity with U.S. defense-industry hiring considerations, including export control (ITAR/EAR) and work authorization requirements for early-career candidates