Senior Technical Recruiter — Hardware & Semiconductors

Socket.dev; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 167,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Astera Labs is scaling quickly to power the next generation of rack-scale AI infrastructure, and we seek a Principal Technical Recruiter to own full-cycle hiring for hardware and semiconductor roles, partnering with engineering leaders to build teams for demanding AI workloads.

This high-impact role acts as a strategic talent advisor, delivering market insights on compensation and hiring trends, and ensuring an exceptional candidate experience across a hyper-growth organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with a strong track record of closing technical and engineering roles.
• Direct recruiting experience within the hardware, semiconductor, or broader silicon industry (or comparable experience recruiting for silicon-related technical fields).
• Demonstrated success sourcing and closing passive, hard-to-fill candidates in a competitive market.
• Strong partnership and consultative skills, with the ability to advise and influence senior engineering leaders.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end recruiting for hardware, silicon, and semiconductor roles across engineering functions.
• Source, engage, and close hard-to-find passive candidates in a highly competitive talent market.
• Manage the candidate pipeline with rigor, ensuring speed, quality, and an exceptional candidate experience at every stage.
• Partner with hiring managers and engineering leaders to define role requirements, calibrate talent, and build tailored search strategies.
• Serve as a trusted talent advisor, bringing market insights on semiconductor and hardware hiring trends, compensation, and competitive intelligence.
• Influence hiring decisions with data, structured interviewing best practices, and a consultative approach.
• Develop and execute proactive sourcing strategies to build talent pipelines for critical and niche silicon roles.
• Lead strategic workforce and hiring planning in partnership with leadership to anticipate future talent needs and align recruiting to business goals.
• Drive continuous process improvement, leveraging recruiting tools and analytics to increase efficiency, quality, and hiring outcomes.
• Author and maintain clear documentation, playbooks, interview guides, and process standards to scale recruiting best practices across teams.
• Champion inclusive hiring practices to attract and secure diverse, high-caliber technical talent.

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

Closing technical roles

Strategic partnership

Stakeholder management

Sourcing expertise

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

ATS experience

Sourcing tools

Recruiting analytics

Job description

Astera Labs is scaling quickly to power the next generation of rack-scale AI infrastructure, and we seek a Principal Technical Recruiter to own full-cycle hiring for hardware and semiconductor roles, partnering with engineering leaders to build teams for demanding AI workloads.

This high-impact role acts as a strategic talent advisor, delivering market insights on compensation and hiring trends, and ensuring an exceptional candidate experience across a hyper-growth organization.