Electrical Engineers: $65-$170/hr from AI Labs

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$65-$170/hr electrical and hardware engineering work, on your schedule

Review AI-generated schematics, firmware, and circuit analysis the way you'd review a board before tape-out. Catch the grounding mistake, the timing violation, the part that browns out at temperature. Your feel for the gap between a circuit that simulates and one that ships is exactly what AI labs need.

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Hi, we're Zac and Jack, the founders of Terac. We want to talk to you directly, because you are the most important part of what we're building.

Terac is a community of experts. People who have spent years getting good at something specific and hard. The world is about to need more of you, not less. As AI takes on more of the world's work, the bottleneck shifts to the people who actually know what they're talking about.

Expert labor is the rarest resource in the world right now, and it is shockingly hard to find. The companies that need a hardware engineer's eye on a noisy power rail spend weeks chasing people, paying placement fees, and settling for whoever is available. Meanwhile thousands of qualified people are sitting with knowledge that no one ever asks for.

That gap is what we're here to close. Every project that lands on Terac is routed to the people who actually know the answer, on their schedule, paid fairly, and only when the work is verified. No middleman taking a cut of your time. No vague gigs. No chasing checks.

We care about every single person in this community. If you join Terac, you're not a row in a database to us. We read the feedback. We answer the emails. We will fight for you when a customer is being unreasonable, and we will be honest with you when something on our side is broken. The quality of this panel is our entire company, and we owe you a serious bar.

If you've made it this far, here is what we're asking: claim your profile. Put your expertise on the record. Let the world's most ambitious teams come find you for the work only you can do.

Zac & Jack

Founders

Electrical Engineering questions

Still curious? Write to us at support@terac.com.

Power systems PEs are actively sought, particularly for tasks involving load flow analysis, protection coordination, and reviewing AI-generated one-line diagrams or arc-flash calculations. Your PE credential signals a depth of standards knowledge (IEEE 1584, NFPA 70E, NERC CIP) that is genuinely harder to source than general EE backgrounds. Sub-specialties like transmission planning, substation design, and power electronics are each treated as distinct domains rather than lumped together.

No. Your role is evaluation and critique, not certification. You are never asked to affix your PE seal, sign off on construction documents, or assume any liability that would normally attach to a licensed engineer of record. The work is structured as expert review and annotation, which sits outside the scope-of-practice obligations that govern sealed deliverables under state engineering practice acts.

Tool-specific depth is exactly what makes a reviewer valuable for certain task pools. Engineers who work daily in LTspice, Cadence Virtuoso, or Altium Designer are assigned sessions where AI outputs include netlists, simulation setups, or PCB layouts that require hands-on tool literacy to critique meaningfully. Generalist breadth and narrow tool expertise are both in demand, just for different task categories.

Your background in MIL-STD, DO-254, or high-reliability design for space and defense is relevant and qualifies you for task pools in those sub-domains. The tasks you are assigned will involve publicly available or purpose-built synthetic scenarios rather than any controlled technical data, so you will not be asked to engage with ITAR-restricted material. Your domain judgment is what is needed, not access to any proprietary program.

Depending on your specialty, tasks include evaluating AI-written technical explanations of circuit behavior, reviewing model-generated code in MATLAB, Python, or VHDL/Verilog for correctness against a stated spec, critiquing step-by-step worked solutions to problems involving electromagnetics, signal integrity, or control systems, and assessing whether an AI-produced design recommendation correctly applies a relevant standard such as IEEE 802.3 or IEC 61508. You may also be asked to write your own worked solutions that demonstrate expert reasoning, which are used as training examples.

Why your expertise matters

Electrical engineering spans physical laws, safety standards, and manufacturing constraints that AI models routinely violate in subtle ways - a model may generate a PCB layout that ignores trace-impedance requirements, spec a component outside its derating curve, or propose a control loop that is theoretically stable but oscillates under real line-voltage variation. Your ability to catch those errors the way you would in a design review is exactly what separates useful AI output from plausible-sounding noise. Training data built from real engineering judgment - not textbook derivations - is what moves a model from "knows Ohm's law" to "understands why that SMPS topology will fail EMC pre-scan."

How pay works

Pay within the $65-$170/hr band scales with depth of specialization: a power electronics engineer with hands-on experience designing to IEC 61800 or UL 508A, or an RF/analog designer who can evaluate S-parameter models and matching networks, earns toward the top, as does anyone with a PE license or documented domain in safety-critical systems (medical, aerospace, automotive). All work is fully remote, billed by the verified hour, and released only after the platform confirms task completion - there are no invoicing delays or retainer minimums.

What the work looks like

A sample of the electrical and hardware engineering work you would pick up. Every project is scoped, remote, and paid on verified completion.

Review an AI-generated schematic for a buck-boost converter and flag any component selections that violate voltage or current derating guidelines under worst-case temperature.
Evaluate a model's proposed PCB stackup and differential-pair routing for a 10 Gbps SerDes interface, noting impedance mismatches or reference-plane discontinuities a layout reviewer would catch.
Create a worked example showing how you would size a fuse and circuit breaker for a 480 V three-phase motor branch circuit in accordance with NEC Article 430.
Assess whether an AI-written Python script for automated oscilloscope waveform capture correctly handles instrument timeouts and data scaling for a Tektronix MDO series scope.
Draft a structured walkthrough of how you would conduct a thermal analysis for a power module mounted to a heatsink, including junction-to-case and case-to-ambient resistance calculations.
Identify errors in an AI-generated motor control algorithm that claims to implement field-oriented control, checking for incorrect Park/Clarke transform sign conventions or missing current-loop anti-windup.