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, Mi