
Contract Hardware Engineer Mid- #26-26416
San Jose, CAContract / Temporary$65–70/hrSeen 6 days agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago
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The Contract Hardware Engineer will oversee full-chip SDCs and work with physical design and DFT teams to close timing across multiple modes. The role also supports SDC methodology development, reviews block-level constraints and clocking diagrams, and may include block-level RTL design or IP integration. The team is developing next-generation networking chips. The position is day-one onsite in San Jose and has an 11-month duration.
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$65-$70 per hour
San Jose, CA
Contract
Duration: 11 months
Schedule:Day-1 Onsite
Job Description:
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You are a diligent Design/SDC Engineer with strong analytical skills and a deep understanding of timing constraints, including clock groups, exceptions, and clock exclusivity.
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Proficient in industry-standard SDC/STA tools and scripting for automation, you excel at identifying and resolving timing issues across all design levels.
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You will collaborate with Front-end and Back-end teams to understand chip architecture and guide them in refining design and timing constraints for seamless physical design closure.
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As part of this team, you’ll contribute to developing next-generation networking chips.
Responsibilities:
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Being a member of the design team who oversees fullchip SDCs and works with physical design and DFT teams to close fullchip timing in multiple timing modes.
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Option to also do block level RTL design or block or top-level IP integration.
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Helping develop efficient methodology to promote block level SDCs to fullchip, and to bring fullchip SDC changes back to block level.
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Helping develop and apply methodology to ensure correctness and quality of SDCs as early as possible in design cycle.
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Reviewing block level SDCs and clocking diagrams and mentor other RTL design owners on SDC development.
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Creating fullchip clocking diagrams and related documentation.
Experience:
- 8 Years of experience
Skillsets:
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Experience with block/full chip SDC development in functional and test modes.
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Experience in Static Timing Analysis and prior working experience with STA tools like PrimeTime/Tempus.
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Understanding of related digital design concepts (e.g., clocking and async boundaries).
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Experience with synthesis tools (e.g., Synopsys DC/DCG/FC), Verilog/System Verilog programming.
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Experience with constraint analyzer tools such as TCM (Timing Constraint Manager from Synopsys) and CCD (Conformal Constraint Designer from Cadence).
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Experience with Spyglass CDC and glitch analysis.
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Experience using Formal Verification: Synopsys Formality and Cadence LEC.
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Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Perl, or TCL.
Education:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering with 7 years of ASIC or related experience or Master’s Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering with 5 years of ASIC or related experience.
US Tech Solutions is a global staff augmentation firm providing a wide range of talent on-demand and total workforce solutions. To know more about US Tech Solutions, please visit www.ustechsolutions.com .
US Tech Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
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How this job compares
Set against the 2,956 open Hardware Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$65–70/hr
- California median$53–65/hr25 hourly ranges
- US median$60–68/hr76 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $67.50/hr, is 17% above the California median midpoint ($58/hr) — in the middle half of Hardware Engineer hourly ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 1,203 open Hardware Engineer jobs in California and 2,956 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Hardware Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (2,480 postings).
- Education
- 1,856 of the 2,956 open Hardware Engineer jobs (63%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 28, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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