How OnHires Helped Voltai Scale Semiconductor AI Teams Across Multiple Regions | Case Study
Voltai is a technology company operating at the intersection of artificial intelligence and semiconductor innovation. The company develops frontier AI models and agentic systems designed to accelerate semiconductor manufacturing, electronics design, automotive systems, industrial automation, and consumer electronics. Voltai works with major semiconductor companies and electronics manufacturers across Europe, Asia, and the United States. As the company expanded its research and engineering capabilities, scaling highly specialized AI talent became a critical priority to support long-term product and innovation goals.
Client:
Voltai
Industry:
AI & ML
Country:
United States, Europe, Asia
Service:
AI Recruiting
Background
Building advanced AI systems for semiconductor and electronics innovation requires more than strong technical foundations. Voltai’s growth depended on assembling teams capable of operating at the frontier of machine learning research while maintaining close alignment with product, engineering, and business stakeholders.
As Voltai expanded across regions, leadership needed a hiring approach that could support rapid growth without compromising technical depth, collaboration standards, or security requirements. The challenge was not only hiring quickly, but hiring right across multiple highly specialized roles.
Challenges
When Voltai partnered with OnHires, the hiring challenge extended far beyond filling individual positions.
The company was hiring in an extremely competitive global market for semiconductor AI talent, while running multiple hiring tracks in parallel across engineering and research functions. Decision-making was distributed across regions, requiring clarity, alignment, and consistent evaluation standards.
At the same time, Voltai needed a predictable and scalable hiring process that could move fast while sending clear signals to candidates about expectations, impact, and technical depth.
Scarcity of highly specialized AI and ML talent with deep domain expertise in semiconductors and electronics.
Parallel hiring across backend engineering, machine learning, and research roles.
Distributed decision-making across regions and time zones.
Highly competitive global market with strong compensation pressure.
Need for a consistent, role-specific hiring process with clear success criteria.
Solution
OnHires designed a tailored, multiregional recruitment program aligned with Voltai’s technical depth and operational realities.
The engagement focused on building clarity upfront through calibrated role scorecards, creating role-specific sourcing strategies, and maintaining strong execution discipline across all hiring tracks. Weekly hiring operations ensured fast feedback loops, early blocker identification, and consistent alignment between stakeholders.
This approach allowed Voltai to scale hiring across regions while maintaining quality, speed, and candidate experience.
Recruiters with hands-on experience hiring AI, ML, and semiconductor-focused engineering talent.
Market mapping and targeted sourcing across Europe, Asia, and the US.
Deep intake and calibration sessions to define success criteria for each role.
Custom pipelines and sourcing playbooks per role and region.
Structured interview frameworks balancing research depth, execution ability, and collaboration.
Results
Through close collaboration with Voltai’s leadership and technical teams, OnHires enabled a scalable and repeatable hiring approach that supported growth without slowing innovation.
The structured process improved decision confidence, reduced hiring friction, and allowed Voltai to move faster on critical roles while maintaining a high technical bar across all hiring tracks.
4 key roles successfully closed across engineering and research functions.
55% faster time-to-hire compared to previous hiring cycles.
Improved first-round interview pass rates through upfront calibration.
Hiring aligned with Voltai’s long-term product and innovation roadmap.
Increased predictability across multiple concurrent hiring tracks.
Beyond immediate placements, the engagement resulted in a hiring framework that Voltai can continue to use as new roles emerge. This reduced operational overhead and improved collaboration between engineering, research, and leadership teams across regions.
Stronger employer positioning within the global semiconductor AI talent market.
This case demonstrates how structured recruitment enables deep-tech companies to scale specialized teams globally while maintaining execution quality, technical depth, and stakeholder alignment.
“OnHires helped us bring structure and speed into a highly complex hiring environment. Their ability to align technical depth with execution and stakeholder expectations made a real difference as we scaled our teams globally.”
CEO
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