Electrical & Hardware Engineering Experts

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.

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