Circuit Design Expert for AI Training

About OpenTrain

OpenTrain AI is the hiring and contracting organization for this role. OpenTrain is the #1 platform for finding and building careers in AI training and data labeling, helping people discover opportunities to teach and improve the systems shaping modern technology.

Creating an OpenTrain account is free, and selected contractors can apply their professional expertise to cutting-edge AI projects from anywhere in the world.

• Fully remote work available globally
• Contractor and part-time engagement
• Flexible schedule with under 20 hours per week expected
• Expected project duration of 1 to 3 months

About AI Training Work

AI training is the human side of building artificial intelligence. Experts create examples, evaluate model outputs, identify errors, and develop reliable reference answers so AI systems can perform useful work more accurately.

In this project, your engineering judgment will help evaluate computer programming, text generation, and rating tasks involving circuit design and electronic design automation. Your feedback can help AI systems reason more effectively about real hardware engineering problems.

• Work directly on emerging AI training workflows
• Apply specialized professional knowledge to model evaluation
• Contribute remotely with a flexible schedule
• Help improve how AI handles engineering and technical tasks

The Circuit Design Expert Role

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

You will create, solve, review, and validate engineering tasks involving analog, digital, power, mixed-signal, or RF circuits. A typical task may involve interpreting requirements, creating or modifying a netlist or hardware description, running command-line simulations or verification tools, analyzing outputs, and determining whether a design meets its electrical and functional constraints.

This role requires experience with circuit designs that were fabricated, shipped, integrated, or taped out. Simulation-only academic experience is not sufficient.

• Pay range: $80 to $130 per hour
• Global, fully remote contractor role
• Approximately 15 hours per week, with an expected commitment under 20 hours
• Flexible hours and days, including weekends if desired
• Output-based compensation paid per task meeting project specifications
• Tasks may require different amounts of time depending on experience and workflow

What You’ll Work On

You will combine circuit-design judgment, programmatic workflows, and clear technical reasoning to produce dependable engineering evaluations and reference solutions.

• 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 with 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 issues involving component selection, parasitics, layout, power integrity, signal integrity, thermal behavior, interfaces, or manufacturing
• Review AI-generated circuit solutions for incorrect assumptions, invalid configurations, or unsupported conclusions
• Develop reproducible reference solutions and automated verification checks

Required Qualifications

This is an expert-level opportunity for an electrical engineering professional with practical experience beyond academic simulation. You must be able to explain circuit behavior and technical decisions clearly and apply engineering judgment to real designs.

A comparable CLI-accessible, scriptable, text-based, or API-enabled EDA tool is acceptable. No specific Python library is mandatory.

• MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering or a closely related discipline, or a BS in Electrical Engineering plus at least 1 to 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
• Practical proficiency with Python
• Experience with an 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
• Experience with computer code programming labeling workflows
• Experience with evaluation, rating, and text generation tasks
• Fluent English proficiency and comfort working in English

Relevant Tools and Technical Experience

Relevant tools may include ngspice, Xyce, Yosys, Verilator, KiCad scripting, SPICE-compatible simulators, HDL simulators, synthesis tools, or equivalent programmatic EDA software.

Relevant Python tools may include PySpice, NumPy, SciPy, pandas, Matplotlib, cocotb, instrument-control libraries, EDA APIs, or internally developed automation tools.

• Circuit simulation and verification workflows
• Command-line or scripted EDA environments
• Python-based engineering automation
• Analytical and physical validation of circuit behavior
• Electronic circuit design and EDA engineering subject matter expertise

Application and Selection Process

OpenTrain AI typically fills roles within 48 hours and is seeking experts who are ready to begin immediately. If selected, you will be expected to start your first task within 24 to 48 hours after completing onboarding.

Minimum submission requirements apply. The time required for each task may vary, and compensation is based on completed output that meets project specifications.

• Apply through OpenTrain and complete the screening questions
• Complete an AI interview of approximately 30 minutes
• Complete a technical assessment if required
• Complete hiring manager review
• Begin the first task within 24 to 48 hours of onboarding if selected