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Normal Computing is an applied AI company building foundational hardware and software for the semiconductor industry and critical AI infrastructure. The company operates across New York City, Silicon Valley (Mountain View), London, Copenhagen, and Seoul.
As a Senior Hardware Recruiter, you will own full-cycle recruiting for Normal's silicon organization, partnering directly with deep-technologist hiring managers to source and close senior hardware talent in a highly specialized market.
Key Responsibilities:
- Full-Cycle Recruiting: Manage end-to-end recruitment for senior hardware, ASIC, and silicon architecture roles, flexing to AI, silicon software, and adjacent technical searches as priorities shift.
- Strategic Sourcing: Identify and engage top-tier talent in unconventional silicon architecture, design verification, and systems architecture—people who are rarely on the market and require compelling reasons to engage.
- Engineering Partnership: Act as a strategic partner to engineering hiring managers, aligning on candidate qualifications, technical bars, and calibration as searches evolve.
- Process Discipline: Run the WHO Method for talent calibration and maintain high-efficiency interview loops, targeting 4-5 rounds maximum to prevent candidate drop-off.
- ATS Ownership: Maintain data hygiene and pipeline flow in Ashby with clean stages, honest statuses, and trustworthy reporting.
- Brand Ambassadorship: Represent Normal Computing at industry events like DAC, engaging specialized candidates in their natural gathering spaces.
Requirements:
- 6+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting with direct experience recruiting AI, ASIC, silicon, or semiconductor engineers (RTL, DV, physical design, architecture, or adjacent roles)
- Proven track record closing senior engineers against competing offers; ability to sell equity, risk, and conviction
- Technical literacy across deep-tech landscape: AI silicon and custom ASIC development; ability to conduct credible intake conversations with chip architects
- Advanced fluency in Ashby or comparable ATS for candidate tracking, reporting, and process automation
- Operational excellence: low ego, comfortable with ambiguity, able to move real work forward at startup velocity
Bonus:
- Exposure to AI/ML and software engineering recruiting in addition to hardware expertise
- Experience recruiting for unconventional computing or physics-based hardware architectures
- Previous experience in high-growth venture-backed startup, semiconductor company, or research lab
