Electrical Engineer - Simulation Specialist

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 D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey.

Position: Electrical Engineering & Simulation Expert — Hephaestus
Type: Contract
Compensation: $70–$90/hour
Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Build realistic tasks in specialties such as circuit and PCB design, power electronics, power systems, embedded systems, or industrial controls.
• Create and debug schematics, SPICE netlists, component models, control logic, and other technical artifacts to reproduce tasks.
• Configure operating points, initial conditions, parameter sweeps, and analyses. Assess convergence, model assumptions, and physical validity.
• Develop reference solutions and verification code to check outputs like voltage, current, efficiency, and design constraints.
• Package model files, dependencies, scripts, and results for reproducibility. Validate checks against correct and incorrect cases.
• Review AI-generated engineering artifacts and diagnose failures in design, simulation setup, or verifier.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• 5+ years of professional electrical engineering experience with circuit designs, power systems, controls, or product validation.
• Experience with tools like KiCad, Altium, Cadence, SPICE/ngspice, MATLAB/Simulink.
• Ability to write, inspect, and debug Python or comparable scripts.
• Sound judgment about component behavior, numerical accuracy, safety margins, and standards.
• Clear technical writing and a disciplined approach to documentation.

Preferred

• Professional engineering credential.
• Experience with test automation, engineering training, or evaluation design.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

• Upload resume
• AI interview based on your resume
• Submit form

Resources & Support

• For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome
• For any help or support, reach out to: support@mercor.com

PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.