Circuit Design Writer - Engineering FRQ
Mercor
| Company | Mercor |
| Category | Engineering |
| Location | US |
| Remote | Remote |
| Employment | Contract |
| Level | Not stated |
| Salary | USD 85 |
| Posted | 5 Aug 2026 |
| Last verified | 12 Aug 2026 |
| Source | The employer's own careers page (company_site) |
Description
We're looking for a senior circuit design expert to help build a benchmark of the hardest reasoning questions in the field — questions specifically designed to be difficult enough that today's most capable AI models still get them wrong. You'll author original, free-response engineering problems grounded in real industry scenarios, write a complete expert-level solution for each, and validate difficulty by running it against three frontier language models until at least one fails.
Requirements: PhD in Electrical Engineering, plus 5+ years of hands-on professional/industry experience in analog, digital, power, or RF circuit design. Design verification roles (UVM/SystemVerilog/DV) do not qualify, regardless of tenure — we need candidates who have shipped or taped out real designs, not only simulated/verified them. Candidates from well-known/blue-chip employers preferred.