Senior Semiconductor Recruiter USA

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The role: 

Senior Semiconductor Recruiter – USA

At a new, high-growth memory and chip company, the Senior Semiconductor Recruiter will be a core partner in building world-class IC design teams across the U.S. and Europe. This role is for a true semiconductor specialist: someone who already recruits chip and hardware engineers and feels at home in the analog, digital, and mixed-signal design ecosystem.

About the role

You will work as an embedded talent partner, owning the end-to-end hiring journey for critical IC and hardware roles. This includes defining requirements with founders and technical leaders, mapping niche markets, headhunting senior talent, and guiding candidates through a thoughtful, high-touch process. The focus is on building long-term hiring foundations for a new memory / chip business, not just filling requisitions.

What you will be hiring

• Analog IC Design Engineers
• Digital / RTL / SoC Design Engineers
• Ideally also: Verification, Layout, Test / DFT Engineers
• Potentially later: Firmware engineers close to hardware

This is a role for someone who lives in the IC / chip design world and can comfortably cover most functions around the chip rather than acting as a general tech recruiter.

What you’ll be doing

• Own full-cycle recruitment across semiconductor / IC design roles: defining profiles, sourcing, interviewing, and managing offers.
• Build and nurture pipelines of Senior and Principal analog and digital IC design engineers in highly competitive markets.
• Run targeted headhunting campaigns for niche profiles, leveraging networks instead of relying on job ads.
• Provide clear market insight, search progress, and data-driven recommendations to founders, CTO, and IC leads.
• Champion and articulate the story of a new memory / chip company to senior engineers and technical leaders.

What we’re looking for

• 5+ years’ experience recruiting in Tech 
• Experience recruiting semiconductors / IC design, ideally across both analog and digital domains.
• Proven track record placing Senior and Principal IC design engineers.
• Solid working knowledge of key tools and concepts: Cadence, CMOS, Verilog, mixed-signal, NVM / memory (enough to speak credibly with engineers).
• Established networks across Europe (ideally DACH), France, global chip companies, and the U.S.
• Experience in headhunting and market mapping for hard-to-find profiles, not just managing inbound applications.

How you work: 

• Confident partnering directly with founders, CTO, and IC leads as a trusted advisor.
• Comfortable in a small, fast-moving startup environment with high autonomy and evolving priorities.
• Strong storyteller who can sell the mission, technology, and growth journey of a new memory / chip company, not just the job title and compensation.
• Structured and proactive in managing pipelines, communicating expectations, and keeping both candidates and stakeholders informed.

If you are a semiconductor-focused recruiter who loves the challenge of finding niche IC talent and wants to help build a next-generation chip company from the ground up, this role offers the chance to make a visible, lasting impa