We find the senior specialists and leaders whose roles are hardest to fill. Across manufacturing, equipment, materials, design and packaging, in Europe and beyond.
Most semiconductor recruitment is built for volume.
We're built for the roles where getting it exactly right matters most.
That’s our focus, and when it’s time to grow the team around them, we bring the same care to every hire.
C-level, VP and Head-of roles — and complete first leadership teams for new facilities and scale-ups.
Rare, senior technical profiles anywhere in the value chain: manufacturing, equipment, materials, design, packaging and photonics.
Before you search: defining the roles, validating your hiring roadmap and testing your assumptions against what the market can really offer.
An urgent search for a rare OPC specialist with 150–110 nm expertise, able to become the foundry’s sole senior authority after all three engineers who held its critical OPC knowledge had left.
A hands-on leader who had shipped complete rack systems, managed external hardware partners and led PCB and firmware teams — and could build delivery discipline in a high-pressure, founder-led business.
A rare overlap of PhD-level research, deep industrial experience across storage technologies and AI architecture vision — with the technical authority to lead ten interdisciplinary researchers.
A very narrow talent pool: semiconductor equipment expertise, hands-on executive leadership and proven prototype-to-production experience, to scale the business from 50 to 150 people while preparing a new fab.
Specialist photonic and heterogeneous packaging expertise, combined with the ability to build a new function from scratch and take complex projects from initial design through industrialisation and qualification.
We challenge the brief with you: what the role really needs to achieve, and whether that person exists.
Our research team maps the market across Europe and beyond, so you see who’s out there and what it will take.
We reach out personally to the people who fit, wherever they are. Often people who aren’t looking, but are open to the right conversation.
We see it through to a signed offer, a smooth start, and a hire that lasts.
“Building a new semiconductor facility from the ground up comes with a high level of technical and organisational complexity. We engaged Claude and The Silicon Search for our 2026 leadership planning because we needed a true strategic hiring partner.
Claude brings strong insight into the European semiconductor talent market.
He has validated our hiring roadmap, challenged our assumptions, and is helping us redefine our foundational leadership roles to align with market realities.”
“We partnered with The Silicon Search to fill a critical position that had been challenging for us to hire due to its complexity and seniority.”
“Their understanding of the semiconductor and high-tech sector made a real difference during the hiring project.”
Every search is led personally by Claude or Alex, so you always have a senior point of contact who knows your role inside out.
Co-founder. Hiring for deep tech since 2006, and exclusively for semiconductors for years. Ambassador of the European Chips Diversity Alliance and a regular speaker on talent at industry events. Dutch, based in Spain.
Co-founder. Alex and Claude have worked side by side since 2006, hiring senior people for deep-tech companies across Europe. Alex brings the same thing to every search: straight talk about what the market can really offer, and the persistence to find the person who fits.
Our researchers map each market in depth.
The companies, the teams and the individuals behind the technology.
So every search starts from a complete picture.
Ambassadors of the European Chips Diversity Alliance
Contributors on talent to Spain's advice to the European Commission on the Chips Act 2
Partners of AESEMI, the Spanish Semiconductor Industry Association
“They didn’t just bring us warm introductions to highly relevant deep-tech/semiconductor VCs from their network; they also helped us sharpen and refine our pitch.”
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Leadership & specialist hiring for the semiconductor industry.
Partners of AESEMI · Ambassadors of the European Chips Diversity Alliance
