Industries

Semiconductor & VLSI

Silicon engineering talent, assessed by people who understand the design flow.

The hiring challenge

What makes this sector difficult.

India's semiconductor talent market is small, concentrated and intensely competitive. Design centres in Bengaluru and Hyderabad compete for the same engineers, and the specialists with genuine tape-out experience are known to everyone hiring.

The consequence is that generic recruitment fails here in a specific way. A recruiter who cannot distinguish RTL design from design verification, or front-end from physical design, produces shortlists that waste a hiring manager's time — and in a market this small, a candidate approached badly is a candidate lost to everyone.

Our co-founder Smitha C.R. built her talent acquisition career inside this sector, at AMD and CoreEL Technologies. That is why we can have the technical conversation on both sides.

Roles we recruit

The role index for this sector.

Not an exhaustive list — a representative one. If your role isn't here, it's still worth a conversation.

Front-end design & verification

RTL Design Engineer
Design Verification Engineer
SoC Verification Engineer
UVM Verification Engineer
Formal Verification Engineer
DFT Engineer
Emulation Engineer

Physical design & backend

Physical Design Engineer
Static Timing Analysis Engineer
Floorplanning & PnR Engineer
Signal & Power Integrity Engineer
Physical Verification Engineer
Circuit Design Engineer

Analog & mixed signal

Analog Design Engineer
Mixed Signal Design Engineer
Layout Engineer
Characterisation Engineer

Silicon validation & product

Silicon Validation Engineer
Post-Silicon Validation Engineer
Product Engineer
Test Engineer
Applications Engineer

Leadership

Design Engineering Manager
Verification Lead
Physical Design Manager
Director of Silicon Engineering
Design Centre Head

Sub-domains we cover

RTL
SystemVerilog
UVM
SoC architecture
ASIC & FPGA
Low-power design
High-speed interfaces
Memory design
Analog & RF
EDA tooling
Package design
Post-silicon validation

Our approach

How we hire in this sector.

Technical screening before shortlist — we establish what a candidate has actually owned, not what appears on the CV. Discretion by default, because this market is small and movement is visible. Realistic compensation guidance grounded in what offers are actually closing at.

And an honest view on feasibility: if a role requires a profile that six people in India hold, we say so at the briefing rather than three months later.

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