About the role

micro1 is looking for a highly skilled Circuit Design Expert to contribute to an AI training project involving electronic hardware, circuit simulation, programmatic EDA workflows, verification, and Python.

Create, solve, review, and validate engineering tasks related to analog, digital, power, mixed-signal, or RF circuits. A representative task may require interpreting circuit requirements, producing or modifying a netlist or hardware description, running simulations or verification tools from the command line, analyzing outputs, and determining whether the design satisfies its electrical and functional constraints.

Experience with real circuit designs that were fabricated, shipped, integrated, or taped out is required. Simulation-only academic experience is not sufficient. Candidates must also have experience with tools that support programmatic or command-line workflows.

Advertised pay: $80–$130/hour. Compensation is output-based: experts are paid per task that meets project specifications. Completion time varies with experience and workflow, and minimum submission requirements apply.

Application process: submit your application and screening questions, complete an AI interview of approximately 30 minutes, complete a technical assessment if required, and complete the hiring manager review.

micro1 says it typically fills roles within 48 hours and seeks experts ready to begin immediately. If selected, expect to start your first task within 24–48 hours of completing onboarding.

Scope of Work

• Design, analyze, and validate analog, digital, power, mixed-signal, or RF circuits.
• Translate electrical requirements into schematics, netlists, models, HDL, constraints, or simulation inputs.
• Run circuit simulation, synthesis, verification, or related workflows using command-line-accessible tools.
• Use Python to generate inputs, automate simulations, run parameter sweeps, control instruments, and analyze results.
• Evaluate voltage, current, power, gain, bandwidth, impedance, noise, timing, stability, thermal behavior, and other relevant outputs.
• Perform corner, tolerance, worst-case, transient, frequency-domain, or Monte Carlo analyses where appropriate.
• Compare simulated behavior with analytical calculations and physical measurements.
• Diagnose component selection, parasitics, layout, power integrity, signal integrity, thermal behavior, interfaces, and manufacturing problems.
• Review AI-generated circuit solutions and identify incorrect assumptions, invalid configurations, or unsupported conclusions.
• Develop reproducible reference solutions and automated verification checks.

What you’ll bring

• An MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering or a closely related discipline; OR a BS in Electrical Engineering plus at least 1–2 years of relevant professional circuit-design experience.
• Meaningful experience designing analog, digital, power, mixed-signal, or RF circuits.
• Experience with designs that were fabricated, integrated, shipped, or taped out—not only simulated.
• Practical proficiency with Python.
• Experience with at least one EDA, circuit-simulation, PCB, HDL, synthesis, or verification tool supporting CLI, scripting, text-based inputs, or a programmatic API.
• Strong understanding of circuit behavior, component selection, tolerances, failure modes, and design trade-offs.
• Experience with hardware bring-up, laboratory validation, design verification, or post-fabrication debugging.
• Ability to explain circuit behavior and technical decisions clearly.
• Relevant tools include ngspice, Xyce, Yosys, Verilator, KiCad scripting, SPICE-compatible simulators, HDL simulators, synthesis tools, or equivalent programmatic EDA software. A comparable CLI-accessible tool is acceptable.
• Relevant Python tools include PySpice, NumPy, SciPy, pandas, Matplotlib, cocotb, instrument-control libraries, EDA APIs, or internally developed automation tools. No single library is mandatory.

Benefits

Not provided in the source listing.

Schedule and availability

Approximately 15 hours per week. Flexible schedule: choose your working hours and days, including weekends if desired.

Contract & Payment Terms

• Contractor engagement of approximately 15 hours per week.
• Compensation is output-based and paid per task that meets project specifications; the advertised hourly range is not a guaranteed hourly payment.
• Minimum submission requirements apply.

Where you can work

The supplied micro1 posting describes this role as global and fully remote.

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