Verified Mercor opportunity
About the Role — We are sourcing senior digital chip design and verification engineers to support an AI evaluation program focused on frontier silicon / chip-design workflows. We are targeting the next couple of months and will prioritize truly strong contributors who can commit meaningful time. — Two parallel profiles — candidates may apply to either track: — Track 1: RTL Design Engineer — Qualifications • 3–10 years of experience in digital RTL design • Strong proficiency in Verilog / SystemVerilog • Solid understanding of digital design fundamentals: FSMs, datapaths, pipelines, FIFOs, arbiters, clock/reset domains, bus protocols • Experience with ASIC design flows: lint, synthesis, timing analysis, CDC, DFT-aware design • Familiarity with common EDA tools for simulation, waveform debug, lint, CDC, synthesis, timing analysis • Familiarity with leveraging LLM-based tools to accelerate chip design, RTL development, debug, documentation, or verification workflows • Ability to write clear design documentation and communicate technical tradeoffs • Experience debugging RTL issues using simulation logs and waveform viewers • Strong collaboration skills across architecture, verification, and implementation teams — Preferred • AMBA protocols (AXI, AHB, APB) • Background in one or more of: CPU, GPU / ML accelerator, networking, memory subsystem, PCIe / high-speed IO, SoC interconnect, low-power design • Exposure to formal verification or SV/UVM-based design verification — Track 2: Design Verification Engineer — Qualifications • 3–10 years of experience in design verification • Strong proficiency in SystemVerilog and UVM • Solid understanding of digital design fundamentals: FSMs, datapaths, pipelines, FIFOs, arbiters, clock/reset domains, bus protocols • Experience developing reusable verification components and testbench infrastructure • Constrained-random verification, functional coverage, assertions (SVA), coverage closure • Familiarity with EDA tools for simulation, waveform debug, coverage analysis, formal verification, regression management • Familiarity with LLM-based tools to accelerate verification, debug, test generation, documentation, or coverage analysis • Ability to write clear verification plans, debug reports, and technical documentation — Preferred • AMBA protocols (AXI, AHB, APB) • Background in one or more of: CPU, GPU / ML accelerator, networking, memory subsystem, PCIe / high-speed IO, SoC interconnect, low-power verification • Reusable verification IP, scoreboards, reference models, coverage-driven regression flows — Logistics • Location: Remote, USA and Canada only • Commitment: Full-time preferred; high availability required (40 hours) • Duration: Target engagement of ~3+ months, starting week of 04/23