Someone called the arbiter "proven correct." You had no way to check the proof, and a deadlock shipped anyway. On ShawSilicon you read the category score before you read the resume: every formal verification engineer in the pool has passed a structured 10-question technical interview in their specialization — SVA property writing, model checking, equivalence checking, JasperGold and VC Formal — scored category by category 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).
Formal verification engineers use mathematical proof techniques to exhaustively verify hardware design properties without simulation. This discipline is critical for safety-critical applications in automotive, aerospace, and medical devices where simulation alone cannot provide sufficient coverage.
Formal verification is one of the rarest skills in semiconductor design. Engineers who can write meaningful SVA properties, set up JasperGold environments, and prove design correctness are extremely scarce. ShawSilicon's structured technical interview tests these specific skills, ensuring every formal verification engineer on the platform has demonstrated real expertise.
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.
Step 1: Post your Formal Verification role with required skills, rate range, and timeline.
Step 2: ShawSilicon matches you with verified engineers who have passed the structured technical interview in Formal Verification. You see the category-by-category score, not just a resume.
Step 3: You interview the shortlist and start the engagement.