Job Description

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco our investors include Benchmark General Catalyst Peter Thiel Adam DAngelo Larry Summers and Jack Dorsey .

Position: Electrical Engineer

Type: Contract

Compensation: $80$120/hour

Location: Remote

Duration: 3 to 4 months

Commitment: 40 hours/week

Role Responsibilities

• Guide research and engineering teams to close knowledge gaps and improve AI model performance in electrical engineering including circuit analysis and design power systems and power electronics and embedded and control systems .
• Design challenging domain-relevant tasks and write accurate and well-structured reference solutions to electrical engineering problems .
• Evaluate electrical engineering tasks and model outputs. Provide clear written technical feedback catching incorrect assumptions unit and sign errors violated design constraints and unsafe design choices.
• Develop guidelines and detailed rubrics to assess the quality of reasoning across areas such as analog and mixed-signal design RF PCB and board-level design power distribution signal processing and controls .
• Collaborate with other subject matter experts to ensure consistency and accuracy in training data.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• Bachelors degree or higher in Electrical Engineering Electrical and Computer Engineering or a closely related engineering discipline.
• 5 years of hands-on professional electrical engineering experience in industry for example in semiconductors consumer electronics power and utilities aerospace and defense automotive and EV robotics telecommunications or medical devices.
• Genuine ownership of real engineering work for example designing and bringing up circuits or boards running circuit simulations specifying power systems or taking hardware through design reviews validation and production.
• Working fluency with common tools (for example SPICE/LTspice Cadence Altium KiCad MATLAB/Simulink or ETAP ) and familiarity with relevant codes and standards (for example IEEE NEC IPC or UL ).
• Demonstrable career progression toward senior or lead engineering responsibility. A Professional Engineer (PE) license is a plus but not required.
• Hands-on working use of large language models in professional work and the judgment to tell a well-reasoned answer from a plausible-sounding wrong one.
• Ability to engage reliably for at least 40 hours/week during weekdays.
• Strong written communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical decisions clearly.

Compensation & Legal

• W-2 employment with Cincinnatus LLC .

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