Synthesis looked clean. STA signoff slipped, the block missed its target frequency, and now a respin and a slipped tape-out are on the table. On ShawSilicon you read the category score before the resume: every ASIC 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, 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).
ASIC design engineers transform RTL specifications into silicon-ready designs that power everything from smartphones to data center accelerators. These engineers handle synthesis, timing closure, low-power optimization, and the complex design flows required for successful tape-out.
Finding qualified ASIC engineers is notoriously difficult because the skills required — synthesis optimization, STA signoff, UPF power intent, and physical-aware design — take years of real tape-out experience to develop. ShawSilicon's structured technical interview tests these exact skills, ensuring every ASIC engineer on the platform has demonstrated production-level competence.
Step 1: Post your ASIC role with required skills, rate range, and timeline.
Step 2: ShawSilicon matches you with verified engineers who have passed the structured technical interview in ASIC / RTL Design. 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.