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Posted 14 Jan 2026

Senior Electrical Engineering Consultant

Aligned is expanding its team by hiring 25 Senior Electrical Engineering Experts for part-time, fully-remote work.

Worldwide
Hiring companyAligned Labs
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About the role

This role is crucial for supporting frontier AI research.

Note: This is not tutoring, teaching, or generic annotation work.

Key aspects of working with Aligned:

  • Experts set their own rates.
  • Exclusive matching to high-impact, top-paying projects in the industry.
  • Focus on expert-level consulting, distinct from low-skill freelance work.

Responsibilities

  • Designing expert-level electrical engineering problems that current leading AI models struggle with.
  • Evaluating and pressure-testing leading AI models in electrical engineering domains.

Experience and education

We are seeking senior electrical engineers with extensive experience in solving complex, research-grade problems within world-class institutions.

Ideal backgrounds include:

  • Faculty and researchers at leading EE/ECE/EECS departments (e.g., MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, Georgia Tech).
  • Scientists at national laboratories and government research institutions (e.g., Sandia, NIST, Lincoln Lab, AFRL).
  • Researchers at industrial research labs (e.g., Bell Labs, IBM Research, Microsoft Research, Intel Labs).
  • Engineers at leading semiconductor and IC companies (e.g., Intel, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Broadcom, TSMC).
  • Principal engineers at defense and aerospace contractors (e.g., Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman).
  • Senior engineers at communications and networking leaders (e.g., Ericsson, Nokia, Cisco).
  • Technical leaders at deep-tech hardware startups (e.g., Rigetti, IonQ, Lightmatter, Commonwealth Fusion).
  • PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a closely related field.
  • 5+ years of post-graduate research or applied electrical engineering experience.
  • A proven track record at institutions recognized as leaders in your field.

Language requirements

  • Fluent English reading and writing skills.

Eligibility

Work arrangement: Fully remote

Eligible locations: Worldwide

Compensation details

  • $100 - $130/hour.
More about the hiring companyAligned Labs
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