Frontier Hardware Engineer AI Reasoning & Circuit Critique

DataAnnotation; Portland (OR); Remote; USD 55,000 - 172,000; Full time

Job summary

DataAnnotation is seeking an experienced Electrical Engineer to evaluate how frontier AI models handle real electrical and electronics engineering work. You bring deep design and debugging experience to teach AI to reason about circuits, systems, and physical constraints.

This role focuses on creating challenging problems, running them through AI models, and critiquing model outputs with your professional standards and written rationale.

Qualifications

• Fluency in English (native or bilingual level).
• 2+ years of industry experience in circuit or electronics engineering.
• Background in electrical engineering, electronics engineering, or a closely related discipline.
• Strong command of circuit analysis and design tradeoffs, and the ability to defend component-level and system-level decisions.
• The ability to articulate why an answer is wrong, not only that it is.
• Working comfort with AI tools, or the ability to pick them up quickly.
• A current, in-progress, or completed Bachelor’s is preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

• Design challenging, realistic engineering problems from your own practice.
• Run those problems through frontier AI models and judge the output against your professional standard.
• Compare two model versions on identical prompts and call which performed better, and where each fell short.
• Critique model-generated derivations, schematics, component selections, and calculations, and write the reasoning behind your call.
• Flag concrete failures with evidence: wrong assumptions, sign and unit errors, unphysical results, invalid topologies, fabricated datasheet values, or off-brief interpretation.

Skills

Circuit analysis

Analog circuits

RF & mixed-signal

Electromagnetics

Control systems

Power and energy

Devices and materials

Signal processing

Photonic tech

AI tools familiarity

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

AI tools

Job description

DataAnnotation is seeking an experienced Electrical Engineer to evaluate how frontier AI models handle real electrical and electronics engineering work. You bring deep design and debugging experience to teach AI to reason about circuits, systems, and physical constraints.

This role focuses on creating challenging problems, running them through AI models, and critiquing model outputs with your professional standards and written rationale.