Semiconductor talent is the scarcest in any industry. The people who design chips, run fabs, and architect inference workstations aren't found in databases. They're found through relationships. We've spent 25 years building them.
The semiconductor talent pool is the thinnest of any industry. A chip architect with 20 years of experience designing inference-optimized silicon at 7nm doesn't respond to a LinkedIn message from a generalist recruiter. They take a call from someone who already knows their work.
We place the technical leaders, the business operators, and the executives who navigate both worlds — from fab leadership and process engineering to business development, government relations, and the boardroom.
We also understand the compliance and certification landscape. The difference between a commercial AI compute company and one on a trusted foundry path is a conversation most search firms can't have. We can.
We run retained searches only. That means we're fully invested in your outcome from day one — not splitting attention across contingency arrangements hoping one closes.
Semiconductor search requires more patience, more discretion, and more technical depth than any other vertical. The best chip architects aren't on the market. They're reachable through a network that takes years to build. Ours is built.
The Semiconductor Practice isn't just a search firm that knows chip architects. We're building our own AI inference workstation — Onyx Semiconductor — purpose-built for the most demanding compute environments. That gives us a level of technical credibility in every search conversation that no generalist firm can match.