Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Positron AI is seeking a Senior Hardware Technical Recruiter to build engineering teams developing next-generation silicon and systems for AI inference. The role owns full-cycle recruiting, partners with engineering leaders on hiring strategy, and improves sourcing, candidate engagement, interview processes, and recruiting operations.
Responsibilities
- Own full-cycle recruiting for hardware engineering roles, including ASIC architecture and RTL design, design verification, physical design, design-for-test, emulation, and silicon validation
- Partner with engineering leaders to define hiring priorities, candidate profiles, seniority, and interview criteria
- Build pipelines of passive candidates through market mapping, personalized outreach, referrals, and relationships within semiconductor communities
- Conduct initial conversations that establish relevant experience, career motivations, and alignment with the role
- Coordinate effective interview processes, facilitate candidate debriefs, and keep feedback and decisions moving
- Develop offer and closing strategies with hiring managers and the People team, communicating the technical opportunity and helping candidates make informed decisions
- Use pipeline data and market feedback to identify bottlenecks, improve recruiting effectiveness, and provide realistic hiring forecasts
- Deliver a thoughtful candidate experience and improve recruiting tools, workflows, and practices as Positron grows
- Take an agent-first approach to recruiting: put AI agents in charge of the process work, such as research, outreach preparation, scheduling, and reporting, so your time goes to people: building relationships with candidates, advising hiring managers, and closing great hires
Skills
- 5+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, including substantial experience recruiting semiconductor or silicon engineering talent
- Demonstrated success hiring across multiple hardware disciplines, such as ASIC/RTL design, design verification, physical design, DFT, or silicon validation
- A proven track record of independently sourcing and closing experienced engineers in competitive talent markets
- Working knowledge of the semiconductor development lifecycle and the 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 your own recruiting workflows, such as market research, sourcing, outreach drafting, scheduling, or pipeline reporting, with sound judgment about where human review is essential
- Ability to independently manage multiple specialized searches as priorities evolve
- This position is open to candidates currently authorized to work in the U.S. We cannot provide new visa sponsorship for this role but are open to facilitating H-1B visa transfers for eligible candidates
- Experience recruiting for AI accelerators, GPUs, CPUs, advanced computing systems, or related semiconductor companies
- An established network within silicon and hardware engineering communities
- Prior success hiring staff, principal, architect, or engineering leadership talent
- Background recruiting in a rapidly growing startup, including building or improving recruiting processes
- Exposure to adjacent disciplines such as board-level hardware, firmware, packaging, signal integrity, or systems engineering
- Familiarity with AI tools and automation to improve recruiting research, outreach preparation, reporting, or operations
- Experience supporting searches across multiple locations or countries
Benefits
- Fully company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
- Company-paid life and disability coverage, with voluntary options to add more
- Supplemental hospital, critical illness, and accident coverage available
- Unlimited paid time off; we encourage everyone to truly unplug and recharge
- 13 paid company holidays
- Remote-first culture with a company-provided computer and home office setup
- Equity
- 401(k) with company matching, eligible from day one
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