Hardware Design Expert - Fully Remote | Upto $190/hr

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark , General Catalyst , Peter Thiel , Adam D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey .

Position: Expert Hardware / RTL Engineer – SystemVerilog / Verilog

Type: Contract

Compensation: $110–190/hour

Location: Remote

Commitment: 20–40 hours/week

Role Responsibilities

• Apply RTL expertise to evaluate technical tasks against real-world professional standards.
• Review intricate code-level situations and provide precise, structured written assessments.
• Work inside Docker -based repositories, running and interpreting programmatic and CI-style checks to ensure a sound engineering environment.
• Provide clear written rationales explaining your expert judgments.
• Complete well-defined, time-bounded tasks with explicit evaluation criteria.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• 5+ years of professional or research RTL experience in SystemVerilog or Verilog .
• Hands-on depth in RTL design, testbench/ UVM verification, FPGA or ASIC work, and EDA toolchains (Vivado, Quartus, Synopsys, Cadence).
• Comfort working in Linux/Docker-based repo environments and reading automated/CI checks.
• Ability to articulate not just what code does but why it's correct or idiomatic, clearly in writing.

Preferred

• Engineers from semiconductor, telecom, defense/aerospace, national-lab, or academic backgrounds.

Compensation & Legal

• Hourly contractor
• Paid weekly via Stripe Connect

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

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