Remote RTL Design & Verification Engineer (Contract)

mercor; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; CAD 196,000 - 343,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is recruiting RTL Design Engineers for remote, contract work lasting 3+ months with a 40-hour week. You will evaluate digital chip design workflows, design and verify RTL components in Verilog/SystemVerilog, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve model outputs.

Responsibilities include developing reusable verification components and leveraging AI-assisted tools to accelerate design and verification, while working independently to meet tight deadlines on a rolling start

Qualifications

• 3–10 years of experience in digital RTL design or design verification.
• Strong proficiency in Verilog/SystemVerilog and UVM.
• Solid understanding of digital design fundamentals: FSMs, datapaths, pipelines, FIFOs, arbiters, clock/reset domains, bus protocols.
• Experience with ASIC design flows and common EDA tools.
• Ability to write clear design documentation and communicate technical tradeoffs.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate digital chip design workflows to enhance AI model training and evaluation.
• Design and verify RTL components using Verilog/SystemVerilog.
• Collaborate with architecture, verification, and implementation teams to improve model outputs.
• Develop reusable verification components and testbench infrastructure.
• Leverage LLM-based tools to accelerate chip design and verification processes.
• Work independently and asynchronously to meet project deadlines.

Skills

RTL design

Verilog/SystemVerilog

UVM

ASIC design flows

Digital design fundamentals

Tools

EDA tools

Job description

Mercor is recruiting RTL Design Engineers for remote, contract work lasting 3+ months with a 40-hour week. You will evaluate digital chip design workflows, design and verify RTL components in Verilog/SystemVerilog, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve model outputs.

Responsibilities include developing reusable verification components and leveraging AI-assisted tools to accelerate design and verification, while working independently to meet tight deadlines on a rolling start