Remote | Circuit Design Expert — $80–$130/hour

24-Mag • New York, NY

1d • $80 - $130 • Remote

About The Position

We are sharing a specialised part-time consulting opportunity for experienced circuit design and electrical engineering professionals with strong expertise in analog, digital, power, mixed-signal, or RF systems, programmatic EDA workflows, hardware verification, and Python to contribute to an advanced AI training and engineering evaluation project. Selected professionals will create, solve, review, and validate circuit-design tasks involving real-world hardware, simulation, verification, and programmatic engineering workflows. The work requires practical circuit-design experience beyond academic simulation, including exposure to designs that have been fabricated, integrated, shipped, or taped out, together with the ability to work through scripts, text-based inputs, command-line tools, or programmatic APIs.

Requirements

• MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering or a closely related discipline
• Alternatively, a BS in Electrical Engineering with at least 1–2 years of relevant professional circuit-design experience
• Meaningful hands-on experience designing analog, digital, power, mixed-signal, or RF circuits
• Experience with designs that were fabricated, integrated, shipped, or taped out
• Simulation-only academic experience is not sufficient for this engagement
• Practical proficiency with Python
• Experience with at least one EDA, circuit-simulation, PCB, HDL, synthesis, or verification tool supporting CLI, scripting, text-based inputs, or a programmatic API
• Relevant tools may include ngspice, Xyce, Yosys, Verilator, KiCad scripting, SPICE-compatible simulators, HDL simulators, synthesis tools, or comparable platforms
• Strong understanding of circuit behaviour, component selection, tolerances, failure modes, and design trade-offs
• Experience with hardware bring-up, laboratory validation, design verification, or post-fabrication debugging
• Ability to explain circuit behaviour, engineering decisions, and technical limitations clearly
• Work must be completed without using confidential or proprietary information belonging to any employer, client, institution, research group, or other third party

Nice To Haves

• Work with tools such as PySpice, NumPy, SciPy, pandas, Matplotlib, cocotb, or comparable libraries

Responsibilities

• Design, analyse, and validate analog, digital, power, mixed-signal, or RF circuits
• Translate electrical requirements into schematics, netlists, models, HDL, constraints, or simulation inputs
• Evaluate voltage, current, power, gain, bandwidth, impedance, noise, timing, stability, thermal behaviour, and related electrical characteristics
• Assess component selection, operating margins, tolerances, and design trade-offs
• Determine whether circuit implementations satisfy intended electrical and functional requirements
• Run circuit simulation, synthesis, verification, and related engineering workflows using command-line-accessible or scriptable tools
• Perform transient, frequency-domain, corner, tolerance, worst-case, and Monte Carlo analyses where appropriate
• Compare simulated behaviour against analytical calculations and physical measurements
• Diagnose invalid configurations, unstable behaviour, or incorrect modelling assumptions
• Build technically reproducible workflows suitable for independent verification
• Use Python to generate inputs, automate simulations, execute parameter sweeps, control instruments, and analyse outputs
• Integrate Python with EDA tools, circuit simulators, verification frameworks, and laboratory workflows
• Work with tools such as PySpice, NumPy, SciPy, pandas, Matplotlib, cocotb, or comparable libraries
• Develop scripts and automated checks that improve repeatability and engineering efficiency
• Ensure engineering tasks can be reproduced through code, configuration files, text-based inputs, or command-line processes
• Diagnose issues involving component selection, parasitics, layout, power integrity, signal integrity, thermal behaviour, interfaces, or manufacturing
• Apply experience from hardware bring-up, laboratory validation, design verification, or post-fabrication debugging
• Review AI-generated circuit solutions for technical and physical correctness
• Identify unsupported conclusions, incorrect assumptions, invalid circuit configurations, or unrealistic results
• Develop reproducible reference solutions and automated verification criteria

Benefits

• Part-time independent contractor engagement
• Fully remote and open to candidates worldwide
• Compensation: $80–$130/hour
• Expected commitment: approximately 15 hours per week
• Schedule is flexible, including the option to work evenings or weekends
• Compensation is output-based, with payment made for tasks that meet project specifications
• Minimum submission requirements apply

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level