The sims were beautiful. First silicon came back with PLL jitter and ADC ENOB nowhere near the datasheet, and the SerDes eye closed under real load. On ShawSilicon you read the category score before you read the resume: every analog and mixed-signal engineer 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 the breakdown across PLL architecture, data-converter linearity, and power management, then you decide.
Send one eligible role brief and get either an evidence shortlist or a straight answer that the verified depth is not there yet. Reviewing it costs nothing. Eligible = a role in one of the nine specializations with a clear brief (stack, level, must-haves).
Analog and mixed-signal engineers design the critical circuits that interface between the physical world and digital processing: data converters, PLLs, SerDes transceivers, power management ICs, and sensor interfaces.
Analog design is perhaps the most experience-dependent discipline in semiconductor engineering. Circuit intuition, process variation awareness, and layout-dependent effects take a decade or more to master. ShawSilicon verifies analog engineers with domain-specific questions on circuit topology, stability analysis, and mixed-signal integration.
Step 1: Post your Analog role with required skills, rate range, and timeline.
Step 2: ShawSilicon matches you with verified engineers who have passed the structured technical interview in Analog / Mixed-Signal. 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 post-route (WNS +0.033 ns, TNS 0.000, hold +0.010 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.