Senior Electrical Engineering Consultant

Aligned Labs; United States; Remote; USD 152,000 - 262,000; Part time

Job summary

Aligned is expanding its team by hiring 25 Senior Electrical Engineering Experts for part-time, fully-remote work. This role is crucial for supporting frontier AI research.

Your responsibilities will include designing expert-level electrical engineering problems that current leading AI models struggle with and evaluating and pressure-testing leading AI models in electrical engineering domains. This is not tutoring or generic annotation work.

Qualifications

• PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a closely related field.
• 5+ years of post-graduate research or applied electrical engineering experience.
• Proven track record at institutions recognized as leaders in your field.

Responsibilities

• Design expert-level electrical engineering problems that current leading AI models struggle with.
• Evaluate and pressure-test leading AI models in electrical engineering domains.

Skills

Fluent English

Education

PhD in Electrical Engineering / Computer Engineering

Job description

## About the Role

Aligned is expanding its team by hiring **25 Senior Electrical Engineering Experts** for part-time, fully-remote work. This role is crucial for supporting **frontier AI research**.

Your responsibilities will include:

• * Designing expert-level electrical engineering problems that current leading AI models struggle with.
• * Evaluating and pressure-testing leading AI models in electrical engineering domains.

**Note**: This is not tutoring, teaching, or generic annotation work.

## About Aligned

Aligned partners with leading AI labs to advance AI knowledge across various fields, including STEM, medicine, law, and finance. Our platform connects subject-matter experts with **paid consulting work** on **frontier AI projects**.

Key aspects of working with Aligned:

• * Experts set their rates.
• * Exclusive matching to high-impact, top-paying projects in the industry.
• * Focus on expert-level consulting, distinct from low-skill freelance work.

Learn more about Aligned: [https://alignedhq.ai/for-experts](https://alignedhq.ai/for-experts)

## Who We're Looking For

We are seeking **senior electrical engineers** with extensive experience in solving complex, research-grade problems within world-class institutions.

• **Ideal backgrounds include:**
• * Faculty and researchers at leading EE/ECE/EECS departments (e.g., MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, Georgia Tech).
• * Scientists at national laboratories and government research institutions (e.g., Sandia, NIST, Lincoln Lab, AFRL).
• * Researchers at industrial research labs (e.g., Bell Labs, IBM Research, Microsoft Research, Intel Labs).
• * Engineers at leading semiconductor and IC companies (e.g., Intel, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Broadcom, TSMC).
• * Principal engineers at defense and aerospace contractors (e.g., Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman).
• * Senior engineers at communications and networking leaders (e.g., Ericsson, Nokia, Cisco).
• * Technical leaders at deep-tech hardware startups (e.g., Rigetti, IonQ, Lightmatter, Commonwealth Fusion).

## Minimum Qualifications

* **Fluent English** reading and writing skills.

• * **PhD** in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a closely related field.
• * **5+ years** of post-graduate research or applied electrical engineering experience.
• * A proven track record at institutions recognized as leaders in your field.