ASIC/SoC Design & Verification Engineer (Train AI Models Part Time!)

Overview

A leading AI lab is growing a team of chip design and verification engineers to help shape how its models understand real hardware engineering work. The goal is to bring real-world judgment into the problems these models are trained and tested on.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and write up realistic chip engineering problems drawn from your own experience – the kind of design, debugging, or verification work you've actually done, not textbook exercises.
• Build out full solutions to go with them: reference RTL, testbenches, and supporting materials, using SystemVerilog/Verilog and the tools you already know.
• Run your problems against an AI model, see where it holds up and where it doesn't, and help explain why.
• Work alongside other engineers on the team to keep everyone's work at a consistent bar of rigor and difficulty.

Core Qualifications

• Hands-on ASIC/SoC design and/or functional verification experience, ideally with exposure to production silicon that's been taped out.
• Strong fluency in SystemVerilog/Verilog.
• Comfortable working in industry toolchains (e.g., Synopsys VCS, Cadence Xcelium, Siemens Questa, VC Formal, Verdi) and/or their open-source counterparts (Icarus Verilog, Verilator, CocoTB, Yosys, OpenROAD).
• Solid grasp of subsystem/SoC-level concerns: interface protocols, handshaking and backpressure, multiple clock domains, and multi-module dataflow.
• Real depth in at least one of the following: RTL design & microarchitecture; IP integration, bring-up & system configuration (NoC, PCIe, DDR, ARM/AXI); functional verification (UVM, SVA, CocoTB; testbench architecture); formal verification & coverage closure; PPA, timing, and synthesis optimization; analog/mixed-signal design verification; or specification authoring, comprehension & Q&A.
• Able to commit 20â40 hours per week, with confirmed availability and no scheduling conflicts.
• Past experience in AI training, model evaluation, or data annotation is a plus.
• Strong written communication and comfortable working independently.

About Cincinnatus LLC

Cincinnatus LLC is an enterprise staffing company that partners with leading technology companies to source and employ highly skilled professionals for contingent and contract-based opportunities. Cincinnatus serves as the employer of record for these engagements, providing W-2 employment, payroll, benefits, and compliance, while placing employees directly within client teams to work on high-impact initiatives. Roles hired through Cincinnatus are not project-based or freelance engagements. They are structured, role-based positions that typically involve part-time or full-time commitments, close collaboration with a client's internal teams, and integration into standard enterprise workflows.

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