Semiconductor & Chip Design Engineer

Opportunity Overview

Handshake is looking for experienced Semiconductor and Chip Design Engineers to support AI research through flexible, part-time contract work. This is not a traditional engineering role—you’ll draw on your hands-on industry experience in chip design, EDA, VLSI, semiconductor process engineering, or verification to evaluate AI-generated content and provide feedback that helps AI reason like a practicing chip engineer.

This is an ongoing, project-based opportunity that you can take on alongside your current role.

What You’ll Do

Create expert-level semiconductor and chip engineering problems and scenarios grounded in real design, verification, implementation, fabrication, and tape-out workflows

Review AI-generated responses for technical accuracy, practical feasibility, and alignment with industry standards and engineering practice

Evaluate designs, methodologies, assumptions, and recommendations involving digital and analog IC design, RTL, verification, physical design, EDA flows, semiconductor processes, and related topics

Assess AI-generated technical work across areas such as synthesis, simulation, timing analysis, physical implementation, design-rule checking, layout, verification, and tape-out

Provide clear, structured written feedback to help improve AI model performance

Complete tasks at your own pace, with no set schedule or minimum-hour requirement

Project Details

Work remotely and asynchronously from wherever you are.

Set your own schedule with no minimum time requirement.

Project placement depends on current availability. If this opportunity is full, additional projects will become available soon.

Qualifications

Ideal candidates meet all three of the following:

Industry experience — 2+ years of hands-on chip design, semiconductor, or related engineering experience in industry

Degree — MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a closely related field. A BS in Electrical or Com