Hardware Expert (MSc. or PhD)

Overview

micro1 is looking for experienced hardware engineers to contribute to AI training projects focused on complex, real-world engineering problems. This is a fully remote contractor role with flexible scheduling and an expected workload of about 15 hours per week.

The work requires strong technical judgment, quantitative reasoning, and the ability to create and evaluate engineering challenges with reproducible answers. Candidates should have personally owned substantial technical work, such as taking a hardware system into production, validating a model against test data, building a verification approach, or diagnosing a difficult failure.

What You'll Do

• Create technically rigorous, self-contained hardware engineering problems based on realistic industry or research scenarios.
• Develop clear reference solutions using engineering calculations, simulations, scripts, experimental reasoning, or other appropriate methods.
• Use engineering tools and software to validate results when relevant.
• Apply practical engineering judgment to produce work that can be independently verified.

Requirements

• Experience in hardware engineering and solving complex technical problems.
• Strong first-principles reasoning combined with practical awareness of real-world constraints.
• Background in hardware system development, verification, testing, validation, reliability, or failure analysis.
• Ability to work with coding agents.
• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, Applied Physics, or a closely related field is preferred.

Process

• Apply to the role and complete the screening questions.
• Complete an AI interview of approximately 30 minutes.
• Complete hiring manager review.

Additional Details

• Compensation is output-based and paid per task that meets the project specifications.
• Minimum submission requirements apply.
• Selected candidates are expected to begin their first task within 24–48 hours of onboarding.