About the Role

Mercor is sourcing senior digital chip design and verification engineers to support an AI evaluation program focused on frontier silicon / chip-design workflows. This is a focused engagement with a date of allocation need of 04/23. 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

Screening Process:

• Application Link \- Apply here
• Upload resume
• Complete AI interview