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Electrical Engineer Quality Assurance Lead (QAL)

SME Careers Remote

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$105/task

Listed

21d ago

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About this Role

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In this hourly, remote contractor role, you will work as an Electrical Engineering Quality Assurance Lead (QAL) to oversee quality, consistency, and trainer performance across electrical engineering AI training projects. You will review AI-generated electrical engineering content and trainer/QA work, evaluate output quality against project guidelines, provide precise written feedback, and ensure that all contributors follow the expected quality standards.

You will assess work for technical accuracy, engineering reasoning, circuit analysis correctness, calculation validity, standards awareness, unit consistency, safety considerations, clarity, formatting, instruction-following, and adherence to project-specific rubrics. You will spot recurring quality issues, communicate updates to trainers and QAs, support onboarding, maintain documentation, and help activate contributors who are not working consistently. This role requires strong electrical engineering expertise, strong English communication skills, excellent attention to detail, structured communication, and the ability to manage quality workflows across remote technical teams.

This role is with SME Careers, a fast-growing AI Data Services company and subsidiary of SuperAnnotate, delivering training data for many of the world’s largest AI companies and foundation-model labs. Your electrical engineering quality leadership will directly help improve the world’s premier AI models by ensuring that engineering training data is accurate, logically sound, clearly explained, well-documented, and aligned with client expectations.

Selection process involves an AI interview, a domain-specific task, and an interview with a recruiter.

Important: There is no immediate project for this role; however, if qualified, you will be among the first experts we reach out to when relevant opportunities arise. This will also provide you with access to future projects available through our expert network.

Key responsibilities

  • Quality monitoring: Spot-check electrical engineering items, identify quality issues, provide ongoing feedback through DMs, and escalate recurring or critical issues.
  • Technical review: Evaluate AI-generated engineering explanations, circuit analyses, calculations, design recommendations, diagrams/descriptions, troubleshooting steps, and problem-solving workflows for correctness and clarity.
  • Trainer and QA communication: Update trainers and QAs on Discord about new item guidelines, project changes, workflow updates, quality expectations, and electrical-engineering-specific review standards.
  • Question handling: Respond to trainer/QA questions clearly and promptly, especially around engineering assumptions, units, formulas, circuits, safety concerns, standards references, and rubric interpretation.
  • Trainer/QA activation management: DM contributors who are inactive or not working, encourage activation, track follow-ups, and flag availability issues when needed.
  • Documentation: Create and maintain electrical engineering project documentation, including style guides, trackers, FAQs, quality notes, examples, honeypots, calibration tasks, and onboarding materials.
  • Onboarding and training: Schedule and run onboarding/training calls with trainers and QAs to explain project expectations, workflows, rubrics, quality standards, and electrical-engineering-specific review requirements.
  • Quality alignment: Ensure all trainers and QAs apply engineering guidelines consistently and understand updates as projects evolve.
  • Risk and safety review: Flag unsafe, misleading, or overconfident engineering recommendations, especially where circuits, electrical installations, equipment operation, power systems, high voltage, batteries, or human safety may be affected.
  • Process improvement: Identify recurring quality gaps, propose workflow improvements, and help build scalable QA processes for electrical engineering AI training projects.

Your profile

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Power Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering, or a closely related engineering field.
  • Strong grasp of the English language to follow project guidelines, communicate with teams, and provide clear technical feedback in English.
  • 3+ years of professional experience in electrical engineering, electronics, power systems, embedded systems, signal processing, circuit design, controls, telecommunications, technical review, engineering education, or related workflows.
  • Strong understanding of core electrical engineering topics such as circuit analysis, analog/digital electronics, electromagnetics, signals and systems, power systems, control systems, semiconductor devices, communication systems, instrumentation, and electrical safety.
  • Ability to evaluate engineering content against detailed rubrics and identify issues such as incorrect assumptions, flawed calculations, missing units, unsafe recommendations, invalid circuit logic, hallucinated standards, or incomplete explanations.
  • Familiarity with common electrical engineering tools or workflows such as SPICE/LTspice, MATLAB, Simulink, Python, Verilog/VHDL, PCB design tools, oscilloscopes, circuit simulation, embedded workflows, or power-system analysis tools is preferred.
  • Experience leading or supporting remote teams of trainers, annotators, reviewers, engineers, technical writers, or QAs is strongly preferred.
  • Comfortable working in fast-moving remote environments using tools such as Discord, Google Sheets, Google Docs, trackers, dashboards, and project management systems.
  • Highly detail-oriented and organized, with the ability to maintain style guides, FAQs, trackers, onboarding materials, honeypots, calibration tasks, and other quality documentation.
  • Experience with AI training, data annotation, large language models, prompt/response evaluation, technical content QA, or rubric-based LLM evaluation is a strong plus.

🌍 Geographic Availability This role is available to qualified experts globally. However, as a U.S.-based company, SME Careers complies with U.S. export control and sanctions regulations. Eligibility depends on your country of residence and any applicable trade restrictions. Some projects may have additional language or region-specific requirements.

💰 Pay Rate May Vary Based on Your Location Your actual compensation will be determined based on your location and local market conditions. See regional job listings for localized pay information, or the application process will clarify your specific rate.

If you're unsure whether you're eligible, proceed with the application—SME's screening will determine your jurisdiction status and applicable compensation.

Requirements

  • Trainer Feedback
  • Technical Review
  • Electronics
  • Power Systems
  • Circuit Analysis
  • Documentation
  • Electrical Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • Quality monitoring: Spot-check electrical engineering items, identify quality issues, provide ongoing feedback through DMs, and escalate recurring or critical issues.
  • Technical review: Evaluate AI-generated engineering explanations, circuit analyses, calculations, design recommendations, diagrams/descriptions, troubleshooting steps, and problem-solving workflows for correctness and clarity.
  • Trainer and QA communication: Update trainers and QAs on Discord about new item guidelines, project changes, workflow updates, quality expectations, and electrical-engineering-specific review standards.
  • Question handling: Respond to trainer/QA questions clearly and promptly, especially around engineering assumptions, units, formulas, circuits, safety concerns, standards references, and rubric interpretation.

Why This Role

Most AI training platforms cap you at task-taker. SME Careers is different: a Electrical Engineer Quality Assurance Lead (QAL) who performs well gets promoted, not just re-queued. It's a genuine path from freelance STEM work into a leadership track, with weekly Deel payouts and flexible hours along the way.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Does SME Careers offer a path for advancement?

Yes. SME Careers is unusual among AI training platforms for this: it publishes an explicit career ladder, Data Trainer, then Quality Analyst, then QA Lead, then Project Manager. Consistent, high-quality work is what moves you up it.

How does SME Careers pay freelancers?

Weekly, through Deel. Deel also handles tax compliance, which is how SME Careers pays contractors across more than 40 countries without running its own international payroll.

Is SME Careers work ongoing or project-based?

Project-based. Assignment duration and availability vary by project, but consistently high-quality work earns priority access to whatever comes next.

Is AI training work the same as traditional consulting?

No. Instead of client deliverables, you're given complex scenarios to evaluate: grading the AI's logic, correcting its hallucinations, and supplying expert-level reasoning it doesn't have on its own. The job is closer to teaching than consulting.

Why do these AI training roles pay so much?

Because general knowledge isn't what's being tested. The model already knows the basics; what it needs is expertise on edge cases, the rare, difficult, highly technical judgment calls only a senior professional in the field would make correctly.

What does the day-to-day workload look like for elite-expert AI training roles?

Slow and deep, not fast and repetitive. A single task can take 45-60 minutes of researching citations or verifying complex calculations. Quality is what's being measured here, not throughput.

What does STEM work look like for a Electrical Engineer Quality Assurance Lead (QAL)?

Tasks here are scoped to STEM, not generic labeling. As a Electrical Engineer Quality Assurance Lead (QAL), expect to draw on real domain judgment (evaluating outputs, correcting errors, or providing expert reasoning specific to STEM) rather than following a one-size-fits-all rubric. If you don't have hands-on STEM background, this is likely not the right listing to start with.

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Who is behind SME Careers?

SME Careers is the expert talent division of SuperAnnotate, an AI data infrastructure platform, connecting domain experts with high-level AI training projects.