Senior University Recruiter

The Team

As part of the Business organization, People and Talent attracts, develops, and supports the exceptional individuals who drive Valar's success. The team partners across the company to build a high-performing organization through recruiting, employee development, engagement, and people operations.

The Role

Valar Atomics is seeking a Senior University Recruiter to build and own our university recruiting program from the ground up. This role will design the full campus recruiting strategy - from target school selection and brand presence through internship and new-grad pipelines - and then run it as a steady-state, scalable function. The ideal candidate has built a university program before, is comfortable operating without a playbook, and can balance long-horizon relationship building with the urgency of near-term technical hiring needs. This is a foundational role for someone who wants to own how Valar shows up on campus, not just execute an existing calendar of events.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and launch Valar's university recruiting strategy from scratch, including target school selection, campus event calendar, and brand presence at career fairs and info sessions
• Build and own the end-to-end internship and new-grad hiring pipeline, from sourcing and screening through offer and close
• Establish and manage relationships with career services offices, faculty, and student organizations at priority schools
• Partner with hiring managers across engineering, nuclear, and operations teams to forecast intern and new-grad headcount needs and calibrate candidate profiles
• Build the systems and processes (Greenhouse and Gem configuration, candidate tracking, conversion reporting) needed to run university recruiting at scale
• Develop a return-offer and conversion strategy to turn interns into full-time hires
• Track and report on program metrics (applications per school, conversion rate, offer-accept rate, cost per hire) and use them to prioritize school investment
• Represent Valar Atomics as an ambassador on campus, communicating the mission and technical work to student audiences

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including demonstrated ownership of a university or early-career recruiting program
• Experience building a recruiting program or process from the ground up, without an existing playbook to inherit
• Track record of developing school and faculty relationships that convert into hiring pipelines
• Proficiency with an ATS/CRM (Greenhouse, Gem, or similar) and comfort building reporting to track program health
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with experience representing a company to student audiences
• Willingness to travel regularly for campus visits and career fairs (approx. 30-40%)

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Experience recruiting for engineering-heavy or technical/scientific fields (mechanical, electrical, nuclear, chemical engineering)
• Familiarity with nuclear engineering or adjacent hard-tech and energy university programs
• Experience standing up a Talent function within a startup or rapidly scaling company
• Experience designing internship conversion or return-offer programs