Mercor is organizing human intelligence to power the AI economy. We are powering frontier research, AI benchmarks, and AI agent training at scale for the top AI labs and enterprises. Backed by General Catalyst and Menlo.
About the role
We're looking for an Early Career & University Recruiter to build Mercor's university recruiting, early-career hiring, and internship programs from the ground up. You'll own the strategy for how we identify, attract, and hire exceptional emerging talent across engineering, machine learning, and business functions. From developing university partnerships to creating new ways of finding talent beyond traditional recruiting channels, you'll help build the next generation of Mercor. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 6+ years of recruiting experience, including meaningful ownership of university, early-career, or internship recruiting
- Demonstrated experience building or significantly transforming an early-career recruiting program, with clear ownership and measurable results
- Strong technical recruiting experience, particularly with engineering, computer science, or machine learning talent
- Exceptional sourcing creativity and the ability to identify high-potential candidates beyond traditional credentials, universities, and employer brands
- Ability to develop a strategy and independently translate it into execution without relying on established infrastructure
- Strong stakeholder management, including the ability to influence hiring managers, challenge assumptions, and drive accountability
More about this role
Mercor's mission is to organize human intelligence to power the AI economy. We're a leading AI data company, building the layer between human expertise and frontier models. Millions of domain experts on the platform are paid over $4 million per day to train frontier AI models. Mercor's APEX benchmark family measures AI's real-world impact on professional work. Mercor Enterprise brings this same infrastructure to Fortune 500 companies: helping companies capture how their best people actually work, translating that expertise directly back into agents.
Mercor is creating a new category of work where expertise powers AI advancement. Achieving this requires an ambitious, fast-paced and deeply committed team. You’ll work alongside researchers, operators, and AI companies at the forefront of shaping the systems that are redefining society. Mercor is a profitable Series C company valued at $10 billion. We work in-person five days a week in our San Francisco, NYC, or London offices.
We're looking for an Early Career & University Recruiter to build Mercor's university recruiting, early-career hiring, and internship programs from the ground up.
You'll own the strategy for how we identify,...
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