About the role
**Opportunity Overview**
Handshake is looking for experienced Embedded Systems and RF Engineers to support AI research through flexible, part-time contract work. This is not a traditional engineering role—you’ll draw on your hands-on industry experience in embedded systems, firmware, digital signal processing, RF, or wireless communications to evaluate AI-generated content and provide feedback that helps AI reason like a practicing embedded or RF engineer.
This is an ongoing, project-based opportunity that you can take on alongside your current role.
What You’ll Do
- Create expert-level embedded systems, DSP, and RF engineering problems and scenarios grounded in real design, development, testing, debugging, and deployment workflows
- Review AI-generated responses for technical accuracy, practical feasibility, and alignment with industry standards and engineering practice
- Evaluate designs, calculations, assumptions, methodologies, and recommendations involving embedded firmware, real-time systems, signal processing, RF systems, wireless communications, and related topics
- Assess AI-generated technical work across areas such as firmware architecture, hardware/software integration, signal analysis, RF design, communications systems, and embedded debugging
- Provide clear, structured written feedback to help improve AI model performance
- Complete tasks at your own pace, with no set schedule or minimum-hour requirement
**Project Details**
- Work remotely and asynchronously from wherever you are.
- Set your own schedule with no minimum time requirement.
- Project placement depends on current availability. If this opportunity is full, additional projects will become available soon.
Qualifications
Ideal candidates meet all three of the following:
- **Industry experience** — 2+ years of hands-on embedded systems, DSP, RF, or related engineering experience in industry
- **Degree** — MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a closely related field. A BS in Electrical or Computer Engineering also qualifies when paired with strong industry experience
- **Embedded and RF expertise** — demonstrated depth in one or more of the following areas:
- Embedded firmware and software development
- Real-time and safety-critical systems
- Digital signal processing and signal analysis
- RF circuit and system design
- Antenna design and electromagnetic systems
- Wireless communications and communication protocols
- Hardware/software integration
- Embedded hardware design, testing, and debugging
Candidates who meet two of the three criteria above are also encouraged to apply.
**Additional Qualifications**
These are not required but will strengthen your application:
- Proficiency with engineering and development tools such as MATLAB/Simulink, Python, SPICE, LTspice, Altium, KiCad, GNU Radio, or comparable environments
- Experience with microcontrollers, microprocessors, FPGAs, SoCs, or other embedded computing platforms
- Experience with RF test and measurement equipment such as spectrum analyzers, vector network analyzers, signal generators, oscilloscopes, or software-defined radios
- Experience with wireless standards and technologies such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, cellular, GNSS, LoRa, or other RF communication systems
- Experience with PCB design, signal integrity, power integrity, EMI/EMC, or hardware validation
- Experience at an embedded systems, semiconductor, telecommunications, aerospace, defense, automotive, consumer electronics, or engineering technology company
**Required for All Applicants**
- Based in Canada
- Strong written communication and attention to detail
- Ability to explain complex embedded systems, DSP, and RF concepts clearly
- Ability to work independently in a remote, asynchronous environment