The schematic reviewed fine. Board bring-up has stalled for two weeks on a BSP and firmware integration nobody can untangle. On ShawSilicon you read the category score before you read the resume: every embedded hardware 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 SoC integration, BSP, firmware, and RTOS, 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).
Embedded hardware engineers bridge the gap between chip design and system-level product development. They handle SoC integration, board bring-up, BSP development, firmware, and the hardware-software interface that makes semiconductor devices functional in real products.
Embedded hardware engineers need a rare combination of hardware understanding and software skills. ShawSilicon tests both: understanding of SoC architecture, peripheral integration, interrupt handling, memory-mapped I/O, and real-time operating system concepts.
Step 1: Post your Embedded Hardware role with required skills, rate range, and timeline.
Step 2: ShawSilicon matches you with verified engineers who have passed the structured technical interview in Embedded Hardware. 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.