Principal Recruiter: Semiconductor Talent Architect

HCL Technologies Limited; Frisco (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

HCL Technologies Limited is seeking a highly experienced Principal Recruiter to identify, engage, and hire top semiconductor and silicon engineering talent. This individual-contributor role demands deep domain knowledge, hands-on sourcing, and the ability to build expert talent networks across ASIC/SoC design, RTL, verification, physical design, and manufacturing.

The ideal candidate will lead end-to-end recruiting, develop targeted sourcing strategies, and collaborate closely with engineering

Qualifications

• 8+ years of recruiting experience in semiconductor talent.
• Extensive hands-on recruiting across ASIC/SoC design, RTL, verification, DFT, RF, and related areas.
• Ability to engage passive candidates and build focused talent pools.
• Strong stakeholder management with engineering leaders and hiring managers.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end recruiting and research-based sourcing for semiconductor and silicon engineering skills.
• Develop targeted sourcing strategies for highly specialized semiconductor roles across design, verification, physical design, embedded, manufacturing, validation and related disciplines.
• Build detailed talent maps and pipelines for critical semiconductor skill areas and future hiring demand.
• Conduct deep market research to identify relevant engineers across semiconductor product companies, design centers, engineering services firms and adjacent talent pools.
• Develop a strong understanding of each requirement including technical skills, tools, technologies, domain experience and skill adjacencies.
• Conduct detailed candidate research, qualification, outreach and engagement before presenting candidates to hiring teams.
• Build and continuously nurture passive semiconductor talent communities for recurring and difficult-to-fill skills.
• Maintain strong knowledge of the semiconductor talent landscape, skill availability, competitor talent pools and emerging skill requirements.
• Provide hiring teams with talent-market insights to help shape sourcing strategy and realistic candidate profiles.
• Deliver a high-quality candidate experience throughout the recruitment lifecycle.
• Continuously improve sourcing methodologies, search strings, talent mapping and recruiting effectiveness for semiconductor hiring.

Skills

Semiconductor recruiting

Passive candidate engagement

Stakeholder management

Talent mapping

Market research

ATS/CRM proficiency

Technical profiling

Tools

ATS

CRM

Job description

HCL Technologies Limited is seeking a highly experienced Principal Recruiter to identify, engage, and hire top semiconductor and silicon engineering talent. This individual-contributor role demands deep domain knowledge, hands-on sourcing, and the ability to build expert talent networks across ASIC/SoC design, RTL, verification, physical design, and manufacturing.

The ideal candidate will lead end-to-end recruiting, develop targeted sourcing strategies, and collaborate closely with engineering