Recruiter/Recruiting

As the Founding Recruiter, you'll build the recruiting function from the ground up and own the entire hiring pipeline end‑to‑end — from sourcing to close. You'll be embedded in the technical community, attending conferences like NeurIPS, DAC, ISSCC, and Hot Chips to identify and build relationships with world‑class talent before they ever hit the market. You'll partner directly with the founders to define hiring strategy, build sourcing playbooks for deeply specialized roles across hardware and AI, and close candidates against offers from top labs and big tech. This is not a coordination role, you'll be a hands‑on, full‑cycle recruiter who can credibly engage with research engineers, chip architects, and ML researchers, understand what they work on, and sell them on the mission. Experience: 4+ years of full‑cycle technical recruiting, with a strong track record closing hardware engineers (RTL, DV, physical design, chip architecture, compilers) and/or ML/AI research engineers.

You don't wait for inbound — you mine conference proceedings, GitHub, Google Scholar, LinkedIn, and niche communities to build pipelines for roles that most recruiters can't fill.

Community Presence: Willingness and ability to represent Architect at top‑tier conferences (NeurIPS, DAC, ISSCC, Hot Chips, MICRO, ISCA) and research meetups. You understand equity, comp structuring, and how to sell a early‑stage opportunity.

Startup DNA: You've recruited at an early‑stage company before (or desperately want to). You're comfortable building processes from scratch, operating without an ATS on day one, and wearing multiple hats.

Bonus

Previous recruiting experience in the semiconductor or AI industry.

Existing network in the chip design or ML research communities.

Experience recruiting for hardware‑software co‑design, compilers, or systems roles.

Background in technical roles before moving into recruiting.

5-10 years recruiting ML research or engineering teams

Founding recruiter trajectory → Head of Talent

Comfortable building processes from scratch at a startup

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