About the job Remote | ASIC/SoC Hardware Design & Verification Engineer - $65-$95/hour
We are sharing a specialised part-time consulting opportunity for US-based ASIC and SoC engineers with hands-on experience in RTL design, functional verification, hardware debugging, IP integration, timing closure, or production silicon development.
This role supports an advanced AI initiative focused on improving how models understand and solve real-world semiconductor engineering problems. Selected engineers will create realistic chip design and verification tasks, develop complete reference solutions using SystemVerilog or Verilog, evaluate model-generated responses, and apply practical engineering judgment gained through design, debugging, verification, and tapeout workflows.
Key Responsibilities
Hardware Engineering Task Development
- Design realistic ASIC and SoC engineering problems based on practical industry experience
- Create tasks involving RTL implementation, debugging, functional verification, microarchitecture, integration, or optimisation
- Develop scenarios that reflect genuine engineering challenges rather than textbook exercises
- Define clear technical requirements, constraints, expected behaviour, and evaluation criteria
RTL Design & Reference Solutions
- Write accurate reference RTL using SystemVerilog or Verilog
- Develop supporting testbenches, assertions, specifications, and technical documentation
- Create solutions covering combinational and sequential logic, control paths, datapaths, interfaces, and subsystem behaviour
- Ensure reference implementations are technically sound, reproducible, and appropriately challenging
Verification & Model Evaluation
- Run engineering tasks against AI models and assess the correctness of generated solutions
- Identify issues in logic, implementation, protocol handling, verification methodology, and technical reasoning
- Evaluate whether proposed designs satisfy functional, architectural, and performance requirements
- Explain model strengths, weaknesses, and failure modes through clear written technical feedback
Technical Quality & Collaboration
- Review tasks and solutions developed by other hardware specialists
- Maintain consistent standards for technical rigor, realism, complexity, and completeness
- Collaborate with engineers across design, verification, formal methods, synthesis, and integration disciplines
- Contribute to shared evaluation frameworks and quality-calibration activities
Ideal Profile Strong candidates may have:
- Hands-on experience in ASIC or SoC design, functional verification, formal verification, or related semiconductor engineering
- Strong fluency in SystemVerilog, Verilog, or both
- Experience with production silicon, tapeout, IP development, chip integration, or subsystem verification
- Solid knowledge of interface protocols, handshaking, backpressure, multiple clock domains, and multi-module dataflow
- Experience working independently on complex design or verification problems
- Strong written communication and the ability to explain hardware engineering decisions clearly
- Reliable availability for approximately 20-40 hours per week
Educational Background
- A degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, electronics engineering, computer science, or a related technical field is highly relevant
- Graduate students, recent graduates, and experienced industry professionals may all be considered
- Advanced academic or professional work in digital design, semiconductor systems, computer architecture, or verification is valuable
- Equivalent hands-on engineering experience may also be considered
Nice to Have
- Experience with RTL design, microarchitecture, or custom IP development
- Background in IP integration, bring-up, or system configuration involving NoC, PCIe, DDR, ARM, or AXI
- Experience with UVM, SVA, CocoTB, testbench architecture, or coverage-driven verification
- Familiarity with formal verification, property checking, and coverage closure
- Knowledge of synthesis, timing analysis, power-performance-area optimisation, or physical design considerations
- Experience in analog or mixed-signal design verification
- Familiarity with tools such as Synopsys VCS, Cadence Xcelium, Siemens Questa, VC Formal, or Verdi
- Experience with open-source tools such as Icarus Verilog, Verilator, Yosys, CocoTB, or OpenROAD
- Previous involvement in AI evaluation, training-data development, technical annotation, or model benchmarking
Why This Opportunity
- Apply practical semiconductor engineering expertise to advanced AI development
- Create realistic tasks grounded in actual chip design and verification work
- Evaluate how AI systems approach complex RTL, debugging, and hardware-reasoning problems
- Collaborate with engineers across multiple ASIC and SoC specialisations
- Work remotely with a flexible part-time commitment and competitive hourly compensation
Contract Details
- Part-time W-2 contingent employment arrangement
- Fully remote role available to candidates based in the United States
- Expected commitment of approximately 20-40 hours per week depending on availability
- Candidates should have confirmed availability without scheduling conflicts
- Competitive rates between $65-$95 per hour depending on expertise and project scope
- Work may include onboarding, technical calibration, task development, model evaluation, and peer review
- Project scope, workload, and duration may be adjusted according to programme requirements and performance
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