Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Mercor is seeking experienced electrical and hardware engineers to support an advanced engineering and AI research initiative with a leading technology organisation. The role involves evaluating complex hardware designs, engineering workflows, technical analyses, and troubleshooting approaches, while applying practical expertise in hardware development, validation, bring-up, debugging, manufacturing, and testing.
Responsibilities
- Apply hands-on electrical and hardware engineering expertise to technically complex engineering tasks
- Review and evaluate hardware designs, engineering workflows, technical analyses, and troubleshooting approaches
- Analyse design trade-offs, failure modes, measurements, test results, and system-level engineering decisions
- Assess the technical correctness and practicality of engineering solutions generated for real-world hardware problems
- Identify errors, missing assumptions, unrealistic recommendations, and potential design or implementation risks
- Develop or review technically rigorous engineering problems, reference solutions, evaluation criteria, or supporting documentation
- Draw on practical experience with hardware development, validation, bring-up, debugging, manufacturing, and testing
- Provide clear technical feedback grounded in real engineering experience and industry best practices
Skills
- 5+ years of professional industry experience, including at least 3 years of recent, actively hands-on experience in hardware development, testing, bring-up, validation, or troubleshooting
- Direct experience serving as the responsible engineer for substantial portions of a hardware development or engineering workflow, rather than solely managing engineering teams or projects
- Deep expertise in at least one of the following areas: + RF systems, antennas, electromagnetic design, or RF validation + Power electronics, power conversion, motor drives, or power delivery + Analog or mixed-signal circuit design + PCB architecture, schematic design, board bring-up, or hardware debugging + Signal integrity, power integrity, high-speed interfaces, or system-level electrical validation
- Strong understanding of practical engineering constraints including component selection, tolerances, measurement, manufacturing, reliability, thermal considerations, and system integration
- Experience debugging real hardware using relevant laboratory equipment, simulation tools, and engineering instrumentation
- Ability to explain technical decisions, trade-offs, and failure modes clearly and rigorously
- Experience working for a company that designs and manufactures physical hardware products is strongly preferred
Benefits
- Apply your engineering expertise to technically challenging problems at the intersection of advanced hardware engineering and AI research.
- Work on projects where practical, real-world engineering experience is highly valued.
- Help improve how advanced AI systems reason about electrical engineering, hardware design, testing, and troubleshooting.
- Contribute remotely with flexible engagement structures alongside experienced engineers and researchers.
- Work on problems that require genuine engineering judgment rather than purely theoretical knowledge.
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