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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
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
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
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
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
Sep 9, 2026
Three Chiplet Seats Your Req List Doesn't Name
UCle 3.0, HBM4 and IEEE 1838 moved the hard part off the die. Three packaging and interconnect seats most chiplet programs never wrote a req for.
By Game 7 Staff
Sep 7, 2026
Who Owns Your CRA Evidence? The Embedded Security Seat Nobody Staffed
From September 11, 2026, an actively exploited vulnerability in a product you ship into the EU starts a 24-hour clock. Filing the notification is the straightforward half. Establishing which shipped firmware is affected, fast enough to matter, is the half most teams have no seat for.
By Game 7 Staff
Sep 4, 2026
When Contingent Staffing for Engineering Teams Beats a Direct Hire
Procurement calls it contingent. The director who filed the req calls it the person who is going to close coverage before the freeze. Both words are right, and the gap between them is worth closing before you route a req through anyone.
By Jason Eisenberg
Sep 2, 2026
Engineering Staffing in Austin and the Temp Agency Question
Samsung has been running fabs on the east side of Austin for thirty years. Our office is four miles from one of them, and more than 70 of our placements are inside driving distance. Here is what contract engineering actually looks like in this city, from both sides of the table.
By Jason Eisenberg
Aug 27, 2026
ITAR and Contract Engineering Staffing: Who Can Touch the Design
Do contract engineers need to be US persons under ITAR? If they access controlled technical data, yes, regardless of employment structure.
By Game 7 Staff
Aug 20, 2026
Hiring Cleared Engineers on Contract: What Program Managers Need to Know
Cleared engineers move through networks, not job boards. Why a cleared DO-254 DV engineer is a pool of dozens, and how to hire on contract.
By Game 7 Staff
Aug 17, 2026
What an Open Verification Seat Actually Costs You Per Month
An open verification seat looks like a saved salary line and behaves like the most expensive item on your program. Here is a transparent, plug-in-your-own-numbers way to put a monthly dollar figure on a vacant DV seat before tape-out. The ~$37K/month model below is illustrative, not a universal claim.
By Game 7 Staff