Senior Hardware Recruiter

The role

You will manage full-cycle recruiting for the silicon organization. You will partner with engineering hiring managers to source and close senior hardware, ASIC, and silicon architecture candidates.

What you will do

• Manage end-to-end recruitment for senior hardware, ASIC, and silicon architecture roles
• Identify and engage talent in silicon architecture, design verification, and systems architecture
• Partner with engineering hiring managers on candidate qualifications and technical bars
• Run the WHO Method for talent calibration
• Maintain interview loops of 4-5 rounds maximum
• Maintain data hygiene and pipeline flow in Ashby
• Represent Normal Computing at industry events like DAC

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting
• Direct experience recruiting AI, ASIC, silicon, or semiconductor engineers including RTL, DV, physical design, architecture, or adjacent roles
• Track record of closing senior engineers against competing offers
• Technical literacy across AI silicon and custom ASIC development
• Advanced fluency in Ashby or comparable ATS

Nice to have

• Exposure to AI/ML and software engineering recruiting in addition to hardware expertise
• 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 problems in AI and silicon. They build foundational hardware and software for the semiconductor industry and critical AI infrastructure.