tldr: You have nothing to offer but money. Any ASIC designer who had the skills to make an ASIC, and who read this forums will already be doing it.
It's a matter of money. But because production in a modern process is very expensive, not because an EE wouldn't work on it on his own. I'm EE and I know I would have done it but I didn't have the resources. It's not looking good now, too late.
Mining is already in an diminishing returns stage (for hardware developers).