# Design Verification Engineer - Fully Remote | Upto $175/hr

About the jobMercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey. Position: RTL Design Engineers Type:Contract Compensation:$100–$175/hour Location:Remote Duration:3+ months Commitment:40 hours/week Role Responsibilities Evaluate digital chip design workflows to enhance AI model training and evaluation. Design and verify RTL components using Verilog/SystemVerilog. Collaborate with architecture, verification, and implementation teams to improve model outputs. Develop reusable verification components and testbench infrastructure. Leverage LLM-based tools to accelerate chip design and verification processes. Work independently and asynchronously to meet project deadlines. Qualifications Must-Have 3–10 years of experience in digital RTL design or design verification. Strong proficiency in Verilog/SystemVerilog and UVM. Solid understanding of digital design fundamentals: FSMs, datapaths, pipelines, FIFOs, arbiters, clock/reset domains, bus protocols. Experience with ASIC design flows and common EDA tools.

- **Id**: 4270205
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/mercor-design-verification-engineer-fully-remote-upto-175hr>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Employment type**: contractor
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: inferred_payroll_markers
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Hiring countries**: CA
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T16:53:05Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T16:53:05Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2076
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- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Recruiting & Staffing, Freelance & Talent Marketplaces, AI Training Data & Annotation

## Company

- **Id**: 4960
- **Name**: Mercor
- **Domain**: mercor.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/mercor>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: yes
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 87
- **Open postings**: 14
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.286
- **Repost share**: 0.071
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 77
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Technologies

- **Formal Verification** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **SystemVerilog** — Optional: no
- **UVM** — Optional: no
- **Verilog** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Canada** — Iso: CA; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T17:31:00Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 77
- **Reasons**: seen:0, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

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