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Salary: USD 140,000 - 225,000 / annual
Positron AI is building next-generation AI inference accelerators designed for low-latency, high-throughput large language model inference. The company's first-generation ASIC, Asimov, targets frontier AI workloads with additional generations in development.
You will serve as Senior Hardware Technical Recruiter, owning full-cycle recruiting to build engineering teams behind Positron's silicon and systems. You will partner directly with engineering leaders from initial role definition through accepted offer, bringing deep understanding of semiconductor talent and a track record of helping experienced engineers advance their careers.
Key responsibilities include:
**Full-Cycle Hardware Recruiting:** Own recruiting for ASIC architecture and RTL design, design verification, physical design, design-for-test, emulation, and silicon validation roles. Partner with engineering leaders to define hiring priorities, candidate profiles, seniority levels, and interview criteria.
**Sourcing and Candidate Engagement:** Build pipelines of passive candidates through market mapping, personalized outreach, referrals, and relationships within semiconductor communities. Conduct initial conversations to establish relevant experience, career motivations, and role alignment.
**Interview Process and Closing:** Coordinate effective interview processes, facilitate candidate debriefs, and maintain momentum on feedback and decisions. Develop offer and closing strategies with hiring managers and the People team, communicating technical opportunities and helping candidates make informed decisions.
**Recruiting Operations and Continuous Improvement:** Use pipeline data and market feedback to identify bottlenecks, improve recruiting effectiveness, and provide realistic hiring forecasts. Deliver thoughtful candidate experience and improve recruiting tools and workflows. Take an agent-first approach: leverage AI agents for research, outreach preparation, scheduling, and reporting so your time focuses on people—building relationships with candidates, advising hiring managers, and closing great hires.
**Requirements:**
- 5+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, including substantial experience recruiting semiconductor or silicon engineering talent
- Demonstrated success hiring across multiple hardware disciplines (ASIC/RTL design, design verification, physical design, DFT, silicon validation)
- Proven track record of independently sourcing and closing experienced engineers in competitive talent markets
- Working knowledge of the semiconductor development lifecycle and distinctions among engineering specialties, sufficient to calibrate searches with hiring managers
- Confidence advising engineering leaders, challenging assumptions constructively, and translating broad hiring needs into actionable search strategies
- Strong written communication, relationship-building, organization, and prioritization skills
- Hands-on proficiency with applicant tracking systems, sourcing tools, and recruiting metrics
- Experience using LLMs and agentic AI tools in recruiting workflows (market research, sourcing, outreach drafting, scheduling, pipeline reporting) with sound judgment about where human review is essential
- Ability to independently manage multiple specialized searches as priorities evolve
**Preferred Qualifications:**
- Experience recruiting for AI accelerators, GPUs, CPUs, advanced computing systems, or related semiconductor companies
- Established network within silicon and hardware engineering communities
- Prior success hiring staff, principal, architect, or engineering leadership talent
