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Hiring Intel for Engineering Teams

Market analysis, hiring strategy, and engineering insights from the team that places mid, senior, and principal engineers at Fortune 500 semiconductor companies.

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Oct 29, 2026

Thanksgiving Week Interview Math: Uneven Travel-Week PTO

Unlike a planned December shutdown, Thanksgiving PTO is uneven and rarely blocked early. Sequence offers before the week of Nov 16 collapses.

By Jason Eisenberg

For Hiring Managers

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Oct 23, 2026

Chiplet and Advanced Packaging Seats: What Hiring Managers Confuse When AI Silicon Programs Scale

Wrong-layer confusion burns panel time on AI silicon programs. Separate packaging integration, package SI/PI, and system validation in the req.

By Game 7 Staff

For Hiring Managers

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Oct 16, 2026

Shortlists When the Panel Gets Thin: Interview Signal Before Late-October PTO

Halloween sits on a Saturday in 2026, but PTO still thins the panel. Protect interview signal with scorecards and a shortlist that already matches the work.

By Jason Eisenberg

For Hiring Managers

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Oct 15, 2026

What Day 1 Ready Means on an Embedded Firmware Bring-Up Contract

Bring-up contracts fail when Day 1 means "figure it out later." Ask about board access, boot scope, and domain honesty before you sign.

By Jason Eisenberg

For Hiring ManagersFor Contractors

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Oct 12, 2026

How to Hire a Physical Design Contract Engineer Without Confusing STA, PD, and Signoff

PD, STA, and signoff are different seats. Write the ownership into the req before you burn panel time renegotiating the job in the room.

By Jason Eisenberg

For Hiring Managers

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Oct 8, 2026

Count Backward From Freeze: Schedule Math for Chip, Board, and Firmware Contract Reqs

Holiday freezes hit engineering programs differently than retail Black Friday. Count backward from the week your panel disappears, and protect tape-out, bring-up, and certification gates.

By Game 7 Staff

For Hiring Managers

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Oct 5, 2026

The Engineer Who Owns the Channel: Signal and Power Integrity as a Career

Almost nobody sets out to be a signal integrity engineer. The discipline recruits you, usually on the night a board that simulated clean starts failing at temperature. It has also quietly become one of the least substitutable seats in hardware.

By Jason Eisenberg

For Contractors

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Oct 1, 2026

The RFIC / mmWave Designer Almost Nobody in the US Staffs

An RFIC/mmWave designer is a transistor-level analog specialist, not an engineer with “RF experience” on the résumé. The scarce, billable signal is silicon-proven: an LNA, PA, VCO, or beamforming IC that has been fabbed and measured against spec. Here is what these designers own, why the US pool is so thin, and how to screen for measured silicon instead of simulation.

By Game 7 Staff

For Hiring Managers

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Sep 28, 2026

Your Contract Ends in 90 Days. Start Now.

The end date was in the paperwork on day one. What separates engineers who move straight into the next engagement from engineers who sit for two months is almost entirely what they did in the ninety days before it.

By Jason Eisenberg

For Contractors

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Sep 24, 2026

Staffing the Memory Tier: Who Owns CXL on Your Program?

Ask a program team who owns the memory tier and you usually get four partial answers and one req. That was survivable while CXL lived in a lab. The specification stopped assuming it does.

By Game 7 Staff

For Hiring Managers

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Sep 21, 2026

2 in 3 Get an Offer: What a Real Engineering Shortlist Looks Like

2 in 3 engineers we put in front of a hiring manager get an offer. Paired with 97%+ acceptance. Tell us what you are staffing.

By Jason Eisenberg

For Hiring Managers

RTL design flow highlighting microarchitecture, RTL ownership, and parallel verification lane

Sep 17, 2026

Writing Verilog Isn’t RTL Design

Anyone competent can express logic in SystemVerilog. RTL design is the judgment on top of the language: microarchitecture, timing intent, power intent, and a clean handoff to DV and PD. Here is what separates a block owner from an HDL coder, the senior-versus-principal signal, and how to screen for ownership instead of line count.

By Game 7 Staff

For Hiring Managers