Remote Circuit Design Expert — Part-Time, Flexible Hours

YO AI Labs; Palo Alto (CA); Remote; USD 96,000 - 179,000; Part time

Job summary

YO AI Labs seeks a Circuit Design Expert for an AI training project focusing on hardware, circuit design, simulation, verification, and EDA workflows using Python.

You will design, analyze, validate, and review real-world circuit solutions, ensuring robust performance across analog, digital, and RF domains. This role embraces a global remote setup with ~15 hours/week and flexible scheduling.

Qualifications

• MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering or BS with 1–2+ years of circuit-design experience.
• Proven experience designing circuits that were fabricated, integrated, shipped, or taped out.
• Strong Python and programmatic EDA/tool experience.
• Experience with hardware bring-up, laboratory validation, design verification, or post-fabrication debugging.
• Ability to explain circuit behavior, assumptions, and design trade-offs clearly.

Responsibilities

• Design and analyze analog, digital, power, mixed-signal, or RF circuits.
• Translate requirements into schematics, netlists, HDL, models, and simulation inputs.
• Run simulation, synthesis, and verification workflows via CLI/programmatic tools.
• Use Python to automate simulations, parameter sweeps, and result analysis.
• Evaluate voltage, current, power, gain, bandwidth, noise, timing, stability, and outputs.
• Diagnose component, parasitic, layout, signal/power integrity, thermal, and manufacturing issues.
• Compare simulations with analytical calculations and hardware measurements.
• Review AI-generated circuit solutions and create reproducible reference solutions.

Skills

Circuit Design & Analysis

Analog/Digital/Mixed-Signal/RF Design

Circuit Simulation & Verification

EDA & CLI-Based Workflows

Python

Hardware Debugging & Validation

Signal & Power Integrity

Technical Problem-Solving

Education

MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering or related field, or BS in Electrical Engineering with 1–2+ years of professional circuit-design experience

Tools

ngspice

Xyce

Yosys

Verilator

KiCad

SPICE simulators

HDL tools

PySpice

NumPy

SciPy

pandas

Matplotlib

cocotb

Job description

YO AI Labs seeks a Circuit Design Expert for an AI training project focusing on hardware, circuit design, simulation, verification, and EDA workflows using Python.

You will design, analyze, validate, and review real-world circuit solutions, ensuring robust performance across analog, digital, and RF domains. This role embraces a global remote setup with ~15 hours/week and flexible scheduling.