Staff Technical Recruiter

Socket.dev; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plan coverage

Unlimited PTO

401(k) matching

Stock options

Voluntary benefits

Job summary

Neurophos is seeking an experienced recruiting lead to join our talent team and drive end-to-end recruitment for engineering roles. You will report to the Senior Director of Talent and Recruiting and help establish credibility with candidates across digital, analog, software, and photonics domains.

As a pivotal member of our hiring team, you will own sourcing, scheduling, and collaboration with the Talent organization to accelerate and improve hiring outcomes in a fast-growing hardware startup

Qualifications

• Experience leading full-cycle technical recruiting for hardware/semiconductor companies.
• Strong sourcing skills for senior technical roles.
• Ability to establish credibility with senior technical talent during interviews.

Responsibilities

• Lead full-cycle recruiting efforts for junior to senior ICs and managers in technical functions.
• Lead active sourcing for roles and build a proactive talent pipeline.
• Coordinate scheduling and manage search pipelines with the team.
• Collaborate with Talent org to accelerate hiring workflows and policies.

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

Technical recruiting

Hardware/semiconductor

Sourcing senior technical talent

Candidate relationship management

Tools

Ashby

Metaview

Job description

About Neurophos

The demand for new data centers and AI compute is rapidly outpacing the planet's energy capacity. Digital solutions are hitting a power wall as we approach the physical limits of traditional silicon. Conquering this bottleneck means rethinking the fundamental architecture of inference compute. The industry's current path can't meet the need, so we're taking a different approach.

Instead of traditional electronic circuits, we use silicon photonics and an active, programmable metasurface to perform matrix multiplications at the speed of light. Our optical cells are 10,000x smaller than traditional photonic components, enabling unprecedented density. By using photonics instead of electricity, our chips become more efficient as they scale. This architecture will deliver up to 100 times the energy efficiency of existing solutions while significantly improving performance for large-scale AI inference.

We've assembled a world-class team of industry veterans and recently raised a $110M Series A led by Gates Frontier. Participants include M12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund), Carbon Direct Capital, Aramco Ventures, Bosch Ventures, Tectonic Ventures, Space Capital, and others.

Join us and shape the future of computing!

Location: Austin, TX. Full-time onsite position.

Reports To: Senior Director of Talent & Recruiting

FLSA Status: Exempt

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced recruiting lead to join our talent team and support the accelerating growth of our engineering organization. This role will report to the Sr. Director of Talent and Recruiting, and will be responsible for end-to-end recruitment efforts for technical roles across the organization. Sourcing strength and curiosity about our technology are top priorities for this role. The ideal candidate is passionate about hardware/semiconductor technology and enjoys learning about how complex systems work. This role will represent our cutting-edge hardware to the market and should be able to quickly establish technical credibility with candidates.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead full-cycle recruiting efforts for junior and senior individual contributors and managers across technical functions.

• Lead active sourcing efforts for your roles and drive proactive talent identification.

• Manage candidate scheduling and coordination within your search pipelines.

• Partner with others in the Talent organization to establish policies, practices, and workflows to accelerate and enhance hiring efforts.

Qualifications

• Prior experience leading full-cycle technical recruiting within a hardware or semiconductor company.

• Exceptional at sourcing senior technical candidates for specialized, hard-to-fill roles.

• Strong understanding of at least one of our major technical verticals - Digital, Analog, Software, Photonics/Optics, or Product Engineering.

• Able to confidently engage and manage relationships with senior technical talent throughout the interview process.

• History of building credibility with internal hiring managers through technical fluency.

• Curious and passionate about the underlying technology. Can articulate complex tech to the market in an understandable way.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

• Organized and disciplined approach to recruiting. Detail-oriented with strong documentation.

Preferred Skills

• Prior experience with Ashby (ATS), Metaview (Notetaking/Sourcing), or other AI-driven recruiting tools.

• Automation/tooling driven approach to managing recruiting efforts. Enjoys finding ways to make things run more smoothly and efficiently.

What We Offer

This is an opportunity to play a pivotal role in an innovative startup redefining the future of AI hardware. Work on game-changing technology at the intersection of photonics and AI as part of a collaborative, brilliant team. You'll contribute to a platform that redefines computational performance and accelerates the future of artificial intelligence. Come help us bring this transformative technology to the world.

Benefits

Join a team that invests in your future and your well-being. At Neurophos, we offer:

• 100% coverage of base health plan premiums for you and your dependents, plus HSA contributions.

• Unlimited PTO. No rigid vacation banks, just a focus on delivery.

• 401(k) matching and stock option opportunities to ensure our success is your success.

• Full suite of voluntary benefits, including Dental, Vision, Life, Hospital, Critical Illness, and Accident insurance.

• Personalized Benefits. Choose the plans that fit your life and take the cash back for those that don't.