Electrical Engineering Writer
Role Overview - Mercor is seeking senior electrical engineering professionals to build evaluation tasks for AI systems operating in Fortune 500 enterprise electrical systems and product design contexts. - The workflows are calibrated to the design complexity, safety stakes, and…
- Field
- Engineering
- Where
- Remote
- Commitment
- hourly
- Hours
- up to 40/week
- Openings
- 38
- Posted
- 5 days ago
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How this pay compares
The title points to writing prompts, problems and answers: writing questions, test tasks, rubrics or model answers for a model to learn from. What each kind of AI training work pays
At $80/hr, this role pays more than 48% of the 207 open engineering roles with a listed pay range, the same as the median.
Among platforms with 10 or more priced engineering roles, Mercor has the highest median ($88/hr across 35 roles) and micro1 the lowest ($60/hr across 28).
Mercor roles that closed since late October stayed listed a median of 39 days (136 roles). Mercor posted this one 5 days ago.
Computed from 2,746 open roles we track across Mercor, micro1, Handshake AI, Alignerr, Appen and OpenTrain AI, refreshed daily. Midpoints of listed ranges; “up to” ceilings are left out of medians.
What you would earn at this rate
Rate
$80/hr
Per week, before tax
$3,200
Per month, if the work is steady
$13,867
- Tax
- Contract pay arrives with no tax withheld. A US contractor at this rate and these hours would set aside about $3,506 a month for self-employment tax plus federal income tax at the 12% bracket (25%, before state tax). Outside the US, your own country's rules apply.
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Open engineering roles on each platform
The same kind of work, priced on every platform we track, with the best-paid open role on each.
| Platform | Open | Median | Best-paid open role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mercorthis role | 36 | $88/hr | Infrastructure / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)$200/hr |
| OpenTrain AI | 132 | $85/hr | Chief Engineer / Senior Mechanical Engineer$200-300/hr |
| Alignerr | 14 | $61/hr | Robotics Technician$40-120/hr |
| micro1 | 29 | $60/hr | Member of Technical Staff, Research Engineering$400k-800k/yr |
| Handshake AI | 52 | up to $85/hr | Engineering LeadUp to $195/hr |
“Up to” rows list only ceilings, so their median is a maximum, not comparable with the range midpoints above them.
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Role Overview
- Mercor is seeking senior electrical engineering professionals to build evaluation tasks for AI systems operating in Fortune 500 enterprise electrical systems and product design contexts.
- The workflows are calibrated to the design complexity, safety stakes, and production scale of Fortune 500 and large industrial and technology manufacturers.
- This role builds worlds on two standards tracks: an International track (IEC) and a US track (NEC / NFPA 70, NESC, IEEE). Experts qualified in either or both tracks are encouraged to apply.
- Contributors design enterprise electrical engineering scenarios, draft reference outputs, and write rubrics that capture how senior F500 engineering leaders think.
Key Responsibilities
- Construct enterprise electrical engineering scenarios spanning complex circuit and systems design cycles, multi-stakeholder design reviews, and manufacturing or regulatory certification processes at F500 accounts.
- Build tasks across F500 power systems and grid infrastructure, semiconductor and PCB design, embedded systems and firmware, signal processing, and control systems engineering.
- Develop engineering scenarios involving tools such as Altium Designer, Cadence, MATLAB/Simulink, SPICE simulation platforms, and enterprise PLM/EDA systems in F500 stacks.
- Apply enterprise electrical engineering methodologies (circuit analysis and simulation, EMC/EMI compliance, control theory, reliability and failure mode analysis) against the standards track a world targets (US: NEC / NFPA 70, NESC, IEEE; International: IEC), and produce reference design specifications, engineering analyses, and executive-level technical narratives.
- Author rubrics that distinguish authentic enterprise electrical engineering judgment from generic textbook or coursework-level recall.
Ideal Qualifications
- 5+ years working as an electrical engineer or engineering lead at a Fortune 500 or major technology, industrial, or energy company (Intel, Texas Instruments, GE, Siemens, Tesla, ABB, Schneider Electric).
- Direct ownership of large-scale circuit designs, power systems, or engineering certification programs.
- Fluency in enterprise electrical engineering tooling and methodologies, plus understanding of how safety standards, regulatory certification (NEC / NFPA 70, IEEE, UL, FCC, IEC), and cross-functional design governance actually work.
- A professional engineering credential (US PE or an international equivalent such as CEng or EUR ING) and prior rubric, engineering-training curriculum, or design documentation authorship are a plus.
From applying to your first payment on Mercor
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First payment
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Sources: Mercor talent docs: AI interview, Mercor talent docs: payments
Full Mercor profile: watch-outs and the public record →Pay history
Mercor has listed this role at $80/hr since Nov 6, 2026 with no change.
Across Mercor's engineering roles, the median listed pay was $88/hr on Nov 1, 2026 (25 roles) and is $88/hr as of Nov 11, 2026 (35 roles).
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