Talent

Semiconductor and AI-hardware talent.

Executive and specialist hiring for chip design, VLSI, physical design, verification, and AI/ML engineering — delivered across time zones by recruiters with real engineering backgrounds.

01

Executive & Leadership Search

The senior engineering hires most agencies can’t close.

Confidential search for VP Engineering, Head of AI, Head of Silicon, and equivalent leadership positions across the semiconductor and AI-hardware ecosystem. Full lifecycle from role-scoping through offer, with engineering-fluent recruiters.

What you get

  • Confidential C-suite and VP-level search
  • Written role scoping and market-mapping report
  • Long-list and short-list with rationale for each
  • Structured interview panels & assessment support
  • Offer negotiation and closing support

Depth of coverage

Semiconductor leadershipAI/ML leadershipHardware engineering leadershipProduct & engineering management

02

VLSI & Chip-design Hiring

Deep specialist hiring in the roles that break most funnels.

Front-end design, RTL, physical design, DFT, verification, analog/mixed-signal, place & route, low-power IC. Our recruiters started as engineers in these domains — we can actually talk to the people you want to hire.

What you get

  • Full-cycle recruitment for specialist chip-design roles
  • Passive-candidate outreach and long-term pipelining
  • Technical pre-screening informed by real EDA / silicon context
  • Skills-matrix reporting and quality-of-hire tracking

Depth of coverage

RTL & front-end designPhysical design & place-and-routeDFT & silicon verificationAnalog & mixed-signal

03

AI, ML & AI-hardware Engineering

Hires who can move between models and silicon.

ML engineers, applied scientists, MLOps, and AI-accelerator specialists. Increasingly, the hardest roles sit at the intersection of ML and hardware — inference optimisation, edge AI, compiler engineering, systems ML. We source there.

What you get

  • ML engineer and applied scientist hiring
  • AI-hardware and accelerator engineering roles
  • MLOps, ML infra, and platform hires
  • Edge AI and inference-optimisation specialists

Depth of coverage

Model & trainingInference & optimisationAI-accelerator hardwareML platform / MLOps

04

Multi-region Delivery

One team across time zones.

We deliver hiring across multiple regions from a single team. This matters when your hiring plan spans time zones, when you need cross-border engineering hires, or when you don’t want to coordinate three agencies for one search.

What you get

  • Simultaneous hiring across regions and time zones
  • Time-zone-aware recruiter coverage
  • Regional salary benchmarking
  • Compliance-aware sourcing (visa, right-to-work, relocation)

Depth of coverage

Primary semiconductor & AI-hardware hubsCross-border coordinationCompliance & mobility

05

Talent Strategy & Workforce Planning

Advisory for founders and non-technical leaders.

Sometimes the answer isn’t another role — it’s a rethink of the hiring plan. We run retained talent-strategy engagements for founders and engineering leaders who need a plan before they need candidates.

What you get

  • Org-design and hiring-plan advisory
  • Market intelligence & competitor benchmarking
  • Compensation-band design
  • Internal recruiter enablement

Depth of coverage

Early-stage org designScale-up hiring plansSenior IC vs manager tradeoffs

06

Recruitment Analytics

The numbers most agencies don’t share.

Pipeline reporting, funnel diagnostics, time-to-fill and quality-of-hire measurement, and structured feedback loops into your hiring process. What we can’t measure, we can’t improve.

What you get

  • Weekly pipeline reporting with named-candidate context
  • Funnel diagnostics and stage-conversion analytics
  • Time-to-fill and time-to-offer measurement
  • Post-hire quality-of-hire tracking

Depth of coverage

ATS integrationsSourcing analyticsPanel & interviewer analytics

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