Senior Technical Recruiter

The role

You will manage full-cycle recruiting for AI/ML, silicon, software, and G&A roles. You will partner with hiring managers, source specialized talent, and maintain data hygiene in Ashby.

What you will do

• Manage the end-to-end recruitment process across AI/ML, silicon and ASIC, and software roles
• Identify and engage top-tier talent across AI research, unconventional silicon architecture, design verification, and systems software
• Act as a strategic partner to hiring managers across engineering, research, and business functions
• Run the WHO Method for talent calibration
• Maintain high-efficiency interview loops
• Maintain data hygiene and pipeline flow in Ashby
• Represent Normal Computing at industry events like DAC

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting
• Direct experience recruiting AI/ML, software, and other roles across hardware manufacturing and operations
• Track record of closing senior engineers against competing offers
• Technical literacy across the deep-tech landscape: AI/ML, AI silicon, and custom ASIC development
• Advanced fluency in Ashby (or comparable ATS)
• Low ego
• Comfortable with ambiguity
• Able to move real work forward at the volume of a scaling startup

Nice to have

• Experience recruiting G&A and business operations roles alongside technical searches
• Experience recruiting for unconventional computing or physics-based hardware architectures
• Previous experience in a high-growth venture-backed startup, semiconductor company, or research lab

About the company

Normal is an applied AI company solving the hardest problems in AI and silicon. They build foundational hardware and software for the semiconductor industry, critical AI infrastructure, and the broader systems that power our world.