Job Title: Associate Recruiter, University Hiring

Department: Talent Acquisition

Employment Type: Full-Time

Location: Houston, TX (fully onsite, five days a week)

Travel: Periodic, for campus events and conferences, primarily during fall and spring recruiting seasons

Who We Are

Persona is building humanoid robots for the most demanding environments in heavy industry — shipyards, steel mills, fabrication facilities, and offshore platforms — performing welding, grinding, maintenance, inspection, and material-handling work that is dangerous, physically demanding, and increasingly difficult to staff.

We are backed by leading strategic and financial investors and engaged with global industrial leaders across Korea, Japan, the United States, and Singapore. Korea is the center of gravity for our early commercial strategy, anchored by relationships with the world’s leading shipbuilders and steelmakers. Our work spans both the robot platform itself and the systems, partners, and playbooks required to deploy it at scale.

Why Join Persona?

We offer competitive compensation, a performance-based bonus, 100% employer covered medical benefits for most healthcare plans, early-stage equity, competitive PTO, and company-wide paid winter break between December 24th and January 2nd.

You’ll shape technology that’s redefining the possibilities of robotics and human interaction.

Work alongside passionate teammates who value creativity, and continuous learning.

About the Role

The next generation of humanoid robotics talent is in university labs, competition teams, and research groups right now. We want to find them early, give them meaningful work, and turn our best interns into full-time engineers. The Associate Recruiter, University Hiring is the person who makes that happen.

Reporting to the Head of Talent, this is a hybrid role. Roughly half your time, you'll own Persona's internship hiring and university programs end to end: building campus relationships, running intern recruiting across engineering, robotics, manufacturing, and corporate teams, and delivering an internship experience that makes students want to come back. The rest of your time, you'll own interview scheduling for our recruiting team, keeping loops moving across technical, manufacturing, and corporate searches.

This is an ideal role for an early-career recruiter who wants real ownership of a program, loves working with students, and has the organization to keep a busy interview calendar running smoothly at the same time. As our intern pipeline matures, this role has a clear path toward full-cycle early-career and technical recruiting.

This position is fully onsite at our Houston corporate office, five days a week.

What You Will Be Doing

University Programs and Internship Hiring

Own Persona's internship program end to end, from headcount planning with hiring managers through offer, onboarding, and end-of-summer conversion to full-time.

Run full-cycle recruiting for intern and new-grad roles across disciplines such as mechanical, electrical, software, robotics, controls, manufacturing, and corporate functions.

Build and maintain a target school strategy, developing relationships with career centers, engineering faculty, research labs, and student organizations.

Source standout students beyond career fairs: robotics competition teams, hackathons, student research, GitHub projects, and engineering societies.

Plan and represent Persona at career fairs, info sessions, tech talks, lab tours, and conferences, both on campus and at our Houston facility.

Screen candidates for technical fundamentals, hands-on project experience, and genuine excitement about building robots.

Design the intern experience in partnership with hiring managers and People Operations, including onboarding, cohort events, mentorship, and final project showcases.

Track program results such as applicant flow, offer acceptance, intern satisfaction, and return-offer conversion, and use them to make each cohort better than the last.

Interview Scheduling