Semiconductor & Chip Design Engineer (Canada)

About this role

**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 Computer Engineering also qualifies when paired with strong industry experience - **Chip and semiconductor expertise** — demonstrated depth in one or more of the following areas: - Digital or analog IC design - VLSI and RTL design - Functional or formal verification - Physical design, place and route, and timing closure - EDA tools and semiconductor design flows - Semiconductor fabrication and process engineering - Design-for-test (DFT), synthesis, or implementation - Layout, design-rule checking, and tape-out - ASIC, SoC, FPGA, or related chip development **Additional Qualifications** These are not required but will strengthen your application: - Proficiency with industry-standard EDA and chip-design tools such as Cadence Virtuoso, Innovus, Synopsys Design Compiler, PrimeTime, VCS, Mentor/Siemens Calibre, ModelSim/Questa, Vivado, Quartus, or comparable tools - Experience with Verilog, SystemVerilog, VHDL, SPICE, or other hardware-description and circuit-simulation languages - Experience with synthesis, static timing analysis, place and route, physical verification, DRC/LVS, parasitic extraction, or other production semiconductor workflows - Experience with formal verification, UVM, simulation, coverage analysis, or other verification methodologies - Experience with semiconductor process technologies, foundry design rules, PDKs, yield analysis, or process integration - Experience at a semiconductor manufacturer, chip-design company, EDA company, engineering consultancy, or recognized employer such as Intel, NVIDIA, AMD, Qualcomm, Broadcom, Apple, Arm, Synopsys, Cadence, or Siemens EDA **Required for All Applicants** - Based in Canada - Strong written communication and attention to detail - Ability to explain complex semiconductor and chip-design concepts clearly - Ability to work independently in a remote, asynchronous environment

Skills & domains

• ai-training
• expert
• phd