Electrical Engineer - Circuit Design

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

Preferred

A Professional Engineer (PE) license is a plus but not required

Benefits

Expert staffing and frontier model training for enterprises.

San Francisco, California, USA

https://mercor.com

Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship

40

Represents job field similar to this job

Engineering and Development

Management and Executive

Product Management

Accounting and Finance

Marketing

Education and Training

Trends of Total Sponsorships

*2026

(45)

2025

(7)

Growth Stage

Total Funding

$483.6M

Key Investors

Felicis

Benchmark

General Catalyst

2025-10-27

Series C· $350M

2025-02-20

Series B· $100M

2024-09-19

Series A· $30M

Qualifications

Bachelor's 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

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

Strong written communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical decisions clearly

A Professional Engineer (PE) license is a plus but not required

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.

Required skills

Circuit Design, Circuit Simulation, Power Systems, Power Electronics, Embedded Systems, Control Systems, Analog and Mixed-Signal Design, RF Design, PCB Design, Signal Processing, SPICE/LTspice, Cadence, Altium, KiCad, MATLAB/Simulink, ETAP, IEEE, NEC, IPC, and UL Standards, Large Language Models

Experience

5+ years