Karthik Kumar

Recruiter

Hyderabad, Telangana, India6 yrs 6 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in end-to-end recruitment for semiconductor roles.
Successfully reduced hiring turnaround time by 30%.
Built strong talent pipelines across multiple platforms.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Semiconductor Talent Acquisition Specialist with expertise in VLSI recruitment.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionRecruitment Lifecycle

Other Skills

Screening ResumesLinkedIn RecruiterSourcingRecruitment StrategiesRecruitingScreeningEnd to End RecruitingGlobal Talent AcquisitionNegotiationOnboardingTechnical RecruitingInterviewingCold CallingApplicant Tracking Systems

About

Having extensive experience in End to End recruitment. Screening resumes based on the job description, short-listing potential candidates, understanding the requirement, negotiating salary, email confirmations for interview, follow up with candidates till onboarding Extensively worked on VLSI positions like Design Verification, Design for Test, Analog Layout, Mask Design, IC layout Design, Physical Design, Circuit Design & RTL Design.

Experience

6 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

0 mo

Current Experience

Hcltech

Associate Manager - Talent Acquisition

Jun 2026 – Present · 0 mo · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

Proxelera

Senior Executive Talent Acquisition

Jul 2025 – Jun 2026 · 11 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Hybrid

Managing end-to-end hiring processes for semiconductor and technical roles.
Driving recruitment strategies to ensure timely and effective onboarding of top talent.

Acl digital

Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

May 2022 – Jul 2025 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Hybrid

Lead semiconductor hiring, managing the full recruitment lifecycle for a variety of VLSI and Embedded roles, including:
Frontend: RTL Design Engineers, Micro-Architects, Functional Verification Engineers, SystemVerilog/UVM Experts
Backend: Physical Design Engineers, STA Engineers, Layout Engineers
DFT: Scan Insertion, ATPG, MBIST, JTAG Engineers
Post-Si: Validation Engineers, Silicon Debug Engineers
Embedded: Firmware Engineers, Device Driver Developers, Embedded C/C++ Programmers, BSP Engineers
System & Software: Embedded Linux Developers, RTOS Engineers, IoT Protocol Engineers (BLE, Zigbee, CAN, SPI, I2C)
Partner directly with engineering leaders and delivery heads to plan sourcing strategies and ensure candidate alignment.
Built and maintained talent pipelines across LinkedIn, Naukri, GitHub, and referrals.
Key Achievements: Created successful talent pipelines for SoC roles, reduced average hiring TAT by 30%, and maintained high candidate quality.

Screening ResumesLinkedIn RecruiterTalent AcquisitionRecruitment Lifecycle

Plant talent inc.

Talent Acquisition (Semiconductor)

Dec 2019 – May 2022 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

❖ Responsible for end to end hiring process, starting from sourcing, screening till onboarding
❖ Understand the hiring needs from clients and work accordingly to source quality profiles
❖ Extensive experience in working with VLSI and Embedded positions
❖ Coordinating with the interviewers (Hiring Manager) for the feedback of the interview and making sure that the interviewers and the candidate are on the same page.
❖ Negotiating and closing Offers across the level.
❖ To keep the candidate warm and informed around the updates and the coordination.
❖ Providing Daily and Weekly reports on the Recruitment status to Reporting Manager.