What the work actually looks like

You are given a workflow brief — build a schematic sheet with a specified hierarchy, set up a layer stack and impedance rules, place and route a section of a board, run DRC and resolve the violations, generate fabrication outputs. You do the work in Altium Designer with your screen recording, narrating or annotating what you did and why. Then you write it up: a realistic prompt that an engineer might plausibly hand to an AI assistant, a rubric that says what a correct response must contain and what disqualifies it, and documentation of the steps, menus, panels, and design decisions involved. Some tasks are review tasks, where you grade someone else's captured workflow or a model's attempt against the rubric.

The hard part is not driving Altium. It is the rubric. A rubric that says "routes the differential pair correctly" is useless; a usable one names the target impedance, the tolerance on intra-pair skew, the layer the pair should run on, the reference plane it must stay over, and what to do if a via transition is unavoidable. The project is buying your ability to make tacit PCB judgment explicit and checkable.

What the screen looks for

micro1's screening is AI-led and conversational, with follow-ups that go a layer deeper than your first answer. Expect to be asked which Altium version and panels you actually use, how you handle specific tasks — variants, multi-channel design, ActiveBOM, the layer stack manager, output jobs — and to walk through a design decision you made under a real constraint. Prior data-annotation, RLHF, or model-evaluation experience is a plus but not the gate; demonstrable Altium fluency and clear technical writing are.

Logistics

  • Contractor, fully remote, no fixed hours; tasks are claimed and delivered asynchronously against deadlines.
  • You must have your own current access to Altium Designer — the project does not supply a licence.
  • Screen recording is mandatory, so you need a machine and workspace where capturing your screen is acceptable and nothing confidential is visible.
  • Observed rates for this listing run $90–175/hr, typically scaling with depth of professional PCB experience and prior evaluation work. Rates are as observed, not guaranteed, and volume varies with the customer's task pipeline.