Remote | Circuit Design Engineer — Up to $80/hour

24-Mag•New York, NY

1d•Remote

About The Position

We are sharing a specialised consulting opportunity for senior circuit design engineers with doctoral-level expertise and substantial hands-on industry experience designing analog, digital, power, or RF circuits. This role supports an advanced AI research initiative focused on creating highly challenging electrical engineering problems grounded in realistic circuit design scenarios. Selected professionals will author original free-response problems, develop complete expert-level solutions, and evaluate each problem against frontier AI models to ensure it requires sophisticated engineering reasoning.

Requirements

A PhD in Electrical Engineering is required
Doctoral-level technical expertise should be complemented by substantial hands-on industry experience
Practical experience designing and delivering real circuits or electronic systems is particularly important for this engagement
Hands-on circuit design experience is required
Candidates should have experience shipping, releasing, or taping out real designs
Work will not involve access to confidential or proprietary information from any employer, client, or institution

Nice To Haves

Experience within a major semiconductor, electronics, aerospace, automotive, telecommunications, energy, or technology organisation
Advanced analog or mixed-signal circuit design experience
Digital circuit or integrated circuit design expertise
Background in power electronics
RF or high-frequency circuit design experience
Experience taking designs through tape-out or production release
Prior experience authoring engineering assessments, technical problems, or training materials
Familiarity with AI models or structured technical evaluation

Responsibilities

Author original, technically rigorous free-response problems involving real-world circuit design
Develop questions requiring advanced engineering reasoning rather than straightforward textbook recall
Create scenarios involving analog, digital, power, or RF circuit design
Incorporate realistic design constraints, specifications, trade-offs, and implementation considerations
Ensure problems reflect authentic professional circuit design workflows
Apply advanced circuit theory and electrical engineering principles to complex design problems
Develop scenarios involving component selection, circuit architecture, performance requirements, and design optimisation
Incorporate practical considerations such as noise, power, stability, bandwidth, signal integrity, efficiency, or reliability where relevant
Evaluate design decisions using realistic technical and production constraints
Ensure technical assumptions and calculations are accurate and internally consistent
Write complete expert-level solutions for each authored problem
Clearly document calculations, assumptions, methodology, and engineering reasoning
Explain relevant circuit behaviour and design trade-offs with appropriate technical depth
Ensure solutions are rigorous, reproducible, and independently verifiable
Produce reference answers suitable for evaluating advanced engineering reasoning
Test authored problems against multiple frontier language models
Evaluate whether current AI systems can correctly solve each engineering problem
Identify reasoning errors, design mistakes, calculation failures, or incomplete technical approaches
Refine problems where necessary to maintain an appropriately demanding level of difficulty
Validate that each question meaningfully tests advanced circuit design expertise