Remote Part-Time Chip Design Engineer for AI Evaluation

Handshake AI; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 124,000; Part time

Job summary

Handshake AI seeks experienced semiconductor and chip design engineers to support AI research through flexible, part-time contract work. You’ll draw on hands-on industry experience in chip design, EDA, VLSI, or semiconductor process engineering to evaluate AI-generated content and provide feedback that helps AI reason like a practicing chip engineer.

This is an ongoing, project-based opportunity you can take on alongside your current role.

Qualifications

• MS or PhD in Electrical/EC engineering or BS with strong industry experience.
• 2+ years of hands-on chip design or semiconductor work in industry.
• Depth in VLSI design, digital/analog design, EDA tooling, fabrication, or verification.

Responsibilities

• Use industry expertise to create expert-level engineering problems grounded in real workflows.
• Review and evaluate AI-generated responses for technical accuracy and practicality.
• Provide structured written feedback to improve AI model performance.
• Complete tasks at your own pace with no set schedule or minimum hours.

Skills

Chip design

VLSI

EDA tooling

Verilog/SystemVerilog

Education

MS/PhD in Electrical/ECE

BS in EE/ECE with strong experience

Tools

Cadence Virtuoso/Innovus

Synopsys Design Compiler

Mentor Calibre

ModelSim

Vivado

Quartus

Job description

Handshake AI seeks experienced semiconductor and chip design engineers to support AI research through flexible, part-time contract work. You’ll draw on hands-on industry experience in chip design, EDA, VLSI, or semiconductor process engineering to evaluate AI-generated content and provide feedback that helps AI reason like a practicing chip engineer.

This is an ongoing, project-based opportunity you can take on alongside your current role.