Electrical & Hardware Engineering Experts

Job description

**Mercor is seeking experienced Electrical and Hardware Engineers** to support an advanced engineering and AI research initiative with a leading technology organisation. We are looking for deeply hands-on engineers who have designed, built, tested, brought up, debugged, or validated real-world hardware systems in production environments.

Relevant backgrounds include:

- **RF / Antenna Engineering**

- **Power Electronics Engineering**

- **Analog / Mixed-Signal Engineering**

- **Hardware / PCB Design Engineering**

- **Signal Integrity Engineering**

This role is particularly well suited for engineers who have worked directly on complex physical products and can bring practical engineering judgment to evaluating technical designs, troubleshooting workflows, and real-world hardware problems.

### Key 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.

### You’re a Strong Fit If You Have

- **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.

### Preferred Background

Experience working for a company that **designs and manufactures physical hardware products** is strongly preferred. Relevant organisations may include, but are not limited to:

- **Aerospace & Defence:**

Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, RTX, Boeing, General Atomics, L3Harris, BAE Systems, General Dynamics, Honeywell Aerospace, Textron

- **Space:**

Blue Origin, Rocket Lab, Relativity Space, Firefly Aerospace, Sierra Space, Astranis, Planet, Maxar, Axiom Space

- **Automotive & EV:**

Tesla, Rivian, General Motors, Ford, Lucid, Waymo, Zoox, Aptiv, Bosch

- **Semiconductors:**

NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Intel, Analogue Devices, Texas Instruments, Broadcom, Marvell, Micron, NXP, Infineon

- **Consumer Electronics & Computing:**

Apple, Google Hardware, Meta Reality Labs, Microsoft Devices, Amazon, Samsung, Garmin, Sonos

- **Drones, eVTOL & Robotics:**

Skydio, Shield AI, Zipline, Joby Aviation, Archer Aviation, Boston Dynamics, Figure, Agility Robotics, Wing

- **Industrial, Energy & Medical Devices:**

Siemens, GE Aerospace, GE Vernova, ABB, Schneider Electric, Rockwell Automation, Enphase, Medtronic, Intuitive Surgical

Candidates from comparable hardware-focused organisations are equally encouraged to apply.

### Why Join

- 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.