The roadmap promised the throughput. The architecture leaves the systolic array idle and starves on HBM bandwidth, and the NPU never reaches the utilization the deck sold. On ShawSilicon you read the category score before you read the resume: every AI chip architect in the pool has passed a structured 10-question technical interview in their specialization, scored category by category — conceptual depth, design, debugging, diagrams, adversarial debug — against a fixed pass floor, and stays invisible to you until they clear it. You see where the tensor-core dataflow and bandwidth answers landed, then you decide.
Send one eligible role brief and get a verified shortlist within 72 hours, or a straight answer that the verified depth is not there yet. Either way, no charge for that shortlist. Eligible = a role in one of the nine specializations with a clear brief (stack, level, must-haves).
AI chip architects design the specialized hardware accelerators driving the AI revolution: neural processing units, tensor cores, systolic arrays, and the memory hierarchies that feed them. This is the fastest-growing specialization in semiconductor design.
AI chip architecture requires a unique blend of machine learning understanding and hardware design expertise. Engineers must optimize for inference latency, training throughput, power efficiency, and memory bandwidth simultaneously. ShawSilicon verifies this rare combination of skills.
Step 1: Post your AI Chip Architecture role with required skills, rate range, and timeline.
Step 2: ShawSilicon matches you with verified engineers who have passed the structured technical interview in AI Chip Architecture. You see the category-by-category score, not just a resume.
Step 3: You interview the shortlist and start the engagement.
The same engineer designs the interview behind every specialization on ShawSilicon. It is built by John Bagshaw, a Senior FPGA Design Engineer with 8+ years designing for AMD, Intel, and Xilinx platforms — Zynq UltraScale+ and Agilex 7. The benchmarks behind the bar are public and timing-closed: cxl-kv-forge-qos at 400 MHz (WNS +0.413 ns, WHS +0.017 ns), a GNSS spoof/jam detector at 488.76 MHz, and flashattn-softmax and kvcache-compress both closed at 400 MHz. The fixed pass floor every engineer clears is the bar he holds himself to.