Electronic engineering mostly deals with the design and development of the circuitry or PCB (Printed Circuit Board) of electronic products. On the other hand, electrical engineering services is a field of study that focuses on high-voltage hardware such as transformers, switchgear, alternators, generators, and so forth. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the work of electrical and electronic engineers may overlap or be at least similar to the point where they often collaborate on the same projects. And one of the overlapping points is PCB design.
This is especially common in small companies and startups, where the design and layout of PCBs are handled by only one engineer of either category. On the subject of hiring PCB designers for startups, the best sites to find the right talent for hardware projects are engineering-specialized freelancing platforms. When compared to their more generalized counterparts, these platforms have an all-around better industry know-how and freelancers vetting process to help narrow down your search from the get-go.
Among the most popular specialized platforms on the web, Cad Crowd comes out at the top of the recommended list for the sheer number of professionals in its network, flexible hiring options, IP protection services, and commendable support. A more detailed overview of both specialized and general freelancing sites where you can hire PCB designers and electrical/electronic engineers is as follows.
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Specialized freelancing platforms
An obvious advantage of using specialized freelancing platforms is having an already-curated long list of available talents to choose from. Some specialized platforms cater to a broad range of engineering professions, while others focus on specific disciplines. Either way, they help narrow down your search right from the start and are more likely to deliver more accurate results. Here are some of the top engineering-specialized freelancing platforms you should consider.
1. Cad Crowd
If your project has anything to do with CAD documentation (whether technical drawings or artistic visualization) and engineering of any kind, and you need to hire a engineering design freelancer or two, you’ll be hard-pressed to find a better platform than Cad Crowd these days. It just has everything you want, from pre-vetted professionals offering their services at affordable rates and flexible hiring options like private projects and open contests, to hourly services for ongoing projects. Let’s not forget about additional features like patent filing and IP protection, among others. And as a bonus, the website is a breeze to navigate, and the sheer availability of design engineering talents you can find on the site is just about second-to-none.
Website: Cadcrowd.com
2. Freelancermap
Based out of Nuremberg, Germany, the freelancing platform focuses on four major categories: SAP, consulting and management, graphics and media, and IT architecture. You either post a project and let the professionals apply for it, or search the public freelancers’ directory using the advanced option to look for particular engineering skills, locations, languages, pay rates, and keywords. The basic membership plan is free, for which you get to submit a job offer and search the freelancer database. There’s also a business plan starting from around $100 per month, but the basic account will do for most startups.
Website: Freelancermap.com
3. Remotive
All freelancers registered to Remotive are tech-oriented professionals, including DevOps, software developers, data specialists, and engineers. The interface looks like a plain and simple job board, but it really is as specialized as they come. You can’t search for candidates directly. Instead, you need to post a project and have the platform distribute it to multiple public channels in the hope of getting greater exposure. Remotive says every project is forwarded to its LinkedIn page (the platform has over 450,000 followers, so that’s good), X profile (26,000 followers), and private Slack Community (2,500 members). A single job post costs $299, with which the project remains active for a month.
Website: Remotive.com
4. Joiner Services
In case you want your freelancer to focus solely on your PCB design and electronic engineering tasks throughout the duration of the project, Joiner Services can be the ideal platform to hunt for the right talent. Joiner Services positions itself as a place where businesses and clients can connect directly with self-employed engineering contractors. The service page for electrical engineering lists specialized skills such as PCB design, product design and development designers, electrical layout and design schematics, test equipment, energy conservation, cost calculation, and more.
Website: Joinerservices.io
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5. Tasker
A talent-marketplace platform, Tasker caters to a broad range of electrical and electronic engineering skills, including process automation, simulation and analysis, PCB design, feasibility study, technical documentation, mechanical CAD drawings, and project management, among others. Using the platform to post a project is free, but you can’t have direct access to a candidate database. Instead, the platform recommends a short list of engineers considered ideal for the project and the associated cost. There will be no additional fee outside the task price.
Website: Taskerplatform.com
6. Dice
A job for tech professionals, Dice offers you access to talents with qualifications in data science, hardware engineering, software engineering, cybersecurity, and IT management. It currently has more than 3.6 million candidates in the database, and 99% of the profiles include detailed information about their skills, locations, resumes, job titles, and email addresses. Dice says that about 4 in 10 members aren’t found on any general freelancing site. A single job post on Dice costs $399. Subscription fee starts at $415 per month.
Website: Dice.com
7. Malt
A leading freelancing platform in Europe, Malt maintains a presence in Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the Nordics, the United Kingdom, and the United Arab Emirates. It specializes in the technology industry, connecting clients from startups to international corporations with expert freelancers and executive consultants of various backgrounds. You can either post a job or browse through the database of freelancers to discover the electrical/electronic engineering talents you need. Posting a job is free, but Malt takes a commission (between 10% to 15%) of the project budget if you decide to hire a talent from the platform.
Website: Malt.com
Engineering job boards
One of the biggest differences between freelancing sites and job boards is the interaction between the clients and the job seekers. While this isn’t true for all platforms, most job boards tend to avoid getting involved with project management and communication. With these engineering-focused job boards, however, at least there’s an assurance about the freelancers’ fields of specialization and skill sets.
8. Nexxt
In short, Nexxt is a multichannel candidate search and job advertising platform with a promising set of features designed for small businesses and startups alike. Nexxt maintains a network of active job boards (each for a specific job category), and it forwards the job post to the relevant partner site on behalf of the clients. For example, most (if not all) of the engineering projects are distributed to TechCareers, a job board for the tech sector, including electronic engineering and PCB design. Nexxt offers premium features such as candidate search, email newsletters, text messaging broadcasts, and custom web pages; all of these features are run as targeted campaigns.
Website: Hiring.nexxt.com
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9. Technojobs
A leading talent recruitment platform in the UK with more than 20 years of experience in the business, Technojobs offers instant access to a CV database of over 200,000 qualified freelancers specializing in IT and tech sectors. It also claims to add around 9,000 fresh CVs every month. Registered employers can target specific niche skills or locations, receive updates of new CVs relevant to the projects, and bulk message potential candidates. Technojobs doesn’t appear to be a free platform, as it offers a “CV database demo,” indicating that there’s a premium option for clients. Pricing information is unclear.
Website: Technojobs.co.uk
10. Electronics Weekly Jobs
Another UK-based premium job board, Electronics Weekly Jobs, is even more specific about the tech sector it serves. The platform is a place for job seekers to discover employment opportunities in the electronics industry, and nothing else. It says to post only the best range of electronic jobs and career advice for professionals, which makes sense considering the fact that a single job post costs £599 (around $800). At that price, the job post remains active on the site for 28 days, and you get to manage the incoming applications online. It also provides bespoke recruitment solutions.
Website: Electronicsweekly.com
11. Engineering Jobs
In terms of features and functionality, Engineering Jobs is similar to Technojobs. However, the former covers a much broader engineering skill set in the talent database, and most of the electronics design freelancers are based in the United States. Engineering Jobs is neither a staffing firm nor an employment agency; it’s simply an online space where clients can post their engineering projects and freelancers can apply for jobs. Clients can choose to receive applications via email or route the applications to an ATS. A single job post on the platform costs $199, for which the project remains active for 60 days.
Website: Engineeringjobs.net
12. IEEE Job Site
When it comes to specialized job boards for engineering projects, it’s surprising how IEEE Job Site still somehow isn’t as frequently mentioned as the alternatives all across the web. In case you haven’t noticed, IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) is among the largest and most popular international organizations for electrical and electronics engineering. The job site should be packed with both young and experienced engineers eager to contribute to new, exciting projects. It’s a premium platform; each job post costs $299 with a lot of optional upgrades to increase exposure.
Website: Jobs.ieee.org
13. NSPE Career Center
It’s a job board run and maintained by the NSPE (National Society of Professional Engineers). And by “professional,” it means licensed. NSPE Career Center is therefore an excellent resource for professional engineering employment, a place for clients to post projects and for job seekers to discover the next career opportunities. As far as job boards go, the Career Center is ideally sitting up there in terms of popularity with IEEE Job Site, although in reality, both aren’t as widely known as they should be to small businesses and startups alike. Career Center offers more than 3,600 searchable engineers’ resumes. The platform caters to all engineering specialties, but there’s always a filtering option to narrow down your search. Posting a job to the Career Center costs $350 for members, or $425 for non-members.
Website: Nspe.org
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14. iHireEngineering
A platform built to be a space for employers to find engineering design talent, iHireEngineering boasts a massive network of candidates with diverse engineering specialties. The platform claims to maintain a database containing more than 410,000 engineers’ resumes, and over half of them are active job seekers. Nearly all candidates have college degrees and at least 1 year of work experience. Again, the platform covers a broad scope of engineering disciplines, so use the filtering options to find the qualifications relevant to your electronic and PCB design projects. A slot of a job post on iHireEngineering costs $369 per month.
Website: Ihireengineering.com
15. AISES Career Hub
The idea behind AISES (American Indian Science and Engineering Society) is to promote an increased representation of the indigenous people of North America and the Pacific Islands in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) careers and studies. It’s a nonprofit organization with a built-in job board, called Career Hub, on the website. You can post a project to the hub for $249, and the platform offers various updates to gain access to additional features such as a resume database and targeted email campaigns.
Website: Careers.aises.org
16. Tech Jobs for Good
While the platform doesn’t say anything about electrical/electronic engineering and PCB design, Tech Jobs for Good has at least two relevant categories: Design and Hardware Engineering. Tech Jobs for Good says it has around 260,000 annual job seekers with an average work experience of 7 years. More than half of the job seekers registered on the site are women. The vast majority of the job seekers visiting the platform are based in the United States, yet they’re open to remote roles. A standard job post costs $195, and registered clients are granted access to the candidate database.
Website: Techjobsforgood.com
17. Engineers Australia
Home to more than 40,000 engineering students and recent graduates, Engineers Australia makes for an ideal place for startups to look for fresh, junior, and relatively affordable PCB design talent from the continent. In Australia itself, it’s a popular platform for companies to fill internship positions and graduate programs. If you’re based in the United States (or anywhere else for that matter) but willing to hire relatively inexperienced remote freelancers for your electronic and PCB design project, Engineers Australia is an excellent platform to attract the right candidates. You can post a job to the platform through Prosple.
Website: Engineersaustralia.org.au
Online engineering communities
It’s a good thing that many online engineering communities host not only industry news, general discussions about the field of study, project ideas, and current trends in the profession, but also job boards maintained by and for members. Job boards within online forums are often free. Some examples are listed below.
18. All About Circuits
Neither a full-on job board nor a freelancing platform, All About Circuits is an independent online forum for electrical and electronic engineers. It’s a pretty busy platform loaded with discussions about hardware design, test equipment database, embedded software, programming, etc. You can also find an educational podcast channel and video lessons on the site. Under the “community” section of the forum, there’s a job and career advising thread where you can start a discussion about your project and find a potential hiring opportunity.
Website: Allaboutcircuits.com
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19. EDAboard
Another online forum that hosts discussions about all things electronics, EDAboard also has a dedicated section for employers to post freelancing opportunities. Because the forum focuses on Electronic Design Automation (sometimes referred to as ECAD or electronic computer-aided design), every job post about electronic engineering or PCB design projects on the site will almost definitely gain exposure from the right audience. There’s no member and jobseeker vetting process here, so it pays to practice due diligence, such as checking the candidates’ profiles on the site and asking for sample works before hiring.
Website: Edaboard.com
20. Upverter Community – Jobs
A lot of online communities fly under the radar in the freelancing world. Most manufacturing companies, including small businesses and startups, tend to search for talent in general job boards or freelance marketplaces without realizing that thousands of viable candidates find a home in specialized online forums scattered all over the web. The Upverter Community, an online forum for hardware electronics discussion, is no different. The job section isn’t the busiest in the world with new postings every day, but it doesn’t change the fact that your project will be displayed right in front of the ideal crowd here. This is a targeted job posting done in the most practical fashion. Also, the forum mentions that the job section prefers projects by startups.
Website: Forum.upverter.com
21. EEVBlog Electronics Community Forum
Probably best known for its YouTube channel, the EEVBlog maintains a strong online presence through its electronics community forum. You’ll find two employment-related sections: “Jobs” and “Work Wanted” as you scroll down the homepage to the General category. The forum makes clear that it prefers job postings from direct employers. Commercial companies are also welcome, but it won’t accept any talent-scouting posts from recruitment agencies. You can also browse members’ profiles in the Work Wanted section to search for potential candidates. Again, no companies are allowed to offer services here.
Website: Eevblog.com
22. Ennomotive
Essentially a crowdsourcing platform, Ennomotive allows you to post a project as an open challenge. You can offer a reward in the form of either monetary or a collaboration agreement to any member who solves technical issues or proposes the most viable solution for the project. The platform claims to have on its back a large network of more than 25,000 professionals and startups, all specializing in IoT innovations and mechanical engineering. It’s not a direct hiring platform, but you can use the “open challenge” feature as an effective talent-finding tool.
Website: Ennomotive.com
23. Hackaday
There are many things in common between Ennomotive and Hackaday. Both are online communities for 3D engineering professionals and enthusiasts, allowing every member to share a project and invite others to collaborate. Hackaday maintains that the platform is meant to be a repository of open hardware (mostly electronics) projects. The open nature of the platform might not be ideal if you’re posting a project or innovation concepts that are supposed to be proprietary IP, but you can always submit a test challenge to see if any member makes for a potential freelance hire.
Website: Hackaday.io
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24. Make:Projects
Another open, crowdsource-based platform, Make:Projects, welcomes every hardware engineer out there to share ideas for innovations and suggest solutions to technical issues for other members. The platform has direct messaging features and group chat to facilitate easy communication. Since it operates in more or less the same way as either Ennomotive or Hackaday, you can use it as a hunting ground for the freelance electronic engineering talents you need. Make:Projects is the brainchild of the collaboration betweenProjectBoard and Make: Community.
Website: Makeprojects.com
25. Fedevel Forum
The main site of Fedevel is designed to be an educational platform that bridges the gap between electrical engineering knowledge and real-life problems commonly encountered in embedded systems. It features courses and resources in various categories, including PCB design and layout designers, homemade electronic products, circuit simulation, etc. The forum section of Fedevel hosts a “Jobs” category, where clients can post job openings and freelancers can sell their skills and services. You’ll also find tips, career advice, and general discussion about talent hunting in the category.
Website: Fedevel.com
General job boards
Although there may be some differences in features and user interface, most job boards work more or less the same way. Clients can post projects with specific requirements, and freelancers send job applications through the platforms. Some job boards allow freelancers to apply directly to the employers’ emails. Among the most popular general job boards on the web are as follows.
26. Working Nomads
A single job post on Working Nomads costs $199. It also offers volume discounts if you need to post three or more projects. Every job post is distributed to the platform’s network of social channels, including the LinkedIn profile and 55,000 active email subscribers. Working Nomads claims to attract an estimated 3 million visitors to the site per year. There’s no freelancer vetting process, and because this isn’t a specialized job board for electronic engineers, the responsibility to screen the applicants falls on the clients themselves.
Website: Workingnomads.com
27. Remotive
With a bold claim of being the only remote-focused global job board for tech startups, Remotive is certainly worth a look in your search for an electronics engineer and PCB design professional. While the freelancers on the site can browse for jobs at no cost at all, employers can’t enjoy the luxury of using a search function to find relevant candidates. But you can post a job, which costs $299, for which the post will stay active on the site for a month. There are multiple optional upgrades to boost job visibility.
Website: Remotive.com
28. We Work Remotely (WWR)
The base price for listing a job on We Work Remotely is $299 per month. Similar to Remotive, WWR also offers various upgrades to help your post gain greater visibility on both the main site and the distribution partners’ pages. Much like all other general job boards out there, WWR doesn’t prioritize any specific profession, educational background, location, or experience. It’s just a simple, straightforward platform where you can post a job and receive applications from interested freelancers in your email inbox. We Work Remotely says every job post is reviewed by a real human instead of a bot, and the applicants are filtered according to your job requirements manually as well.
Website: Weworkremotely.com
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29. Remote OK
There doesn’t seem to be any striking difference between Remote OK and We Work Remotely in terms of features and how the systems work on the platforms. Remote OK appears to aggregate job postings from various sites across the web, compiling them together for freelancers to see. On the client’s side, a single standard job post costs $269, and there are plenty of optional upgrades such as displaying your company logo, email campaign, auto talent matching, geo-lock, and more. The homepage says the platform is frequented by more than 3 million remote workers on a monthly basis.
Website: Remoteok.com
30. FlexJobs
If many of the alternatives charge you a fee for every single job post, FlexJobs offers a membership starting at $199 per month, for which you have an unlimited number of job ad inventory, unlimited resume searches, and an easy ATS integration. The account comes with a 7-day refund policy in case your search turns out to be fruitless on the platform. The good thing is that you don’t actually have to purchase the monthly subscription for your first five job postings. FlexJobs is neatly integrated with its sister site Remote.co, meaning your job post will be displayed on the two platforms for additional exposure.
Website: Flexjobs.com
31. SimplyHired / Indeed
Primarily a job search platform built for freelancers, SimplyHired handles its job postings from clients through the Indeed website. Free job posting on Indeed gives you standard visibility, although the site doesn’t really specify what “standard” is. The premium option is called “Sponsored Jobs” with flexible pricing starting at $5 per day to a minimum monthly budget of $150. Keep in mind that it can get expensive because the total fee is calculated from the number of clicks you get. At the same time, the pay-per-click means you only have to pay for every potential candidate visiting your post.
Websites: Simplyhired.com / Indeed.com
32. ZipRecruiter
You have three employer account plan options on ZipRecruiter: Standard, Premium, and Pro. But no matter which plan you purchase, it comes with flexible daily per-job pricing or a monthly subscription. There’s also a free trial, and you get to make your first job post free of charge. The platform is known for its broad partnerships with dozens of job boards, smart AI matching technology, and a mobile-friendly interface. Your job post will be broadcast to more than 100 partner sites, and you can attach screening questions to filter the candidates from the start.
Website: Ziprecruiter.com
33. Glassdoor
It wouldn’t be entirely accurate to say that Glassdoor is a mere job board for employers. The platform is a place where you can promote your companies (instead of projects) to 3D design freelancers and job seekers worldwide with a range of profile-building features. Only when you purchase the premium account do the features to sponsor open jobs become available. These features include premium branded content and advanced insights into job seekers. In short, Glassdoor offers not only an advanced platform to attract freelancers but also an assortment of effective tools to gain insight into the workforce landscape and broadcast your profile to millions of job seekers.
Website: Glassdoor.com
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General freelancing platforms
Everybody from any educational background and level of experience is welcome. Many general freelancing platforms have low barriers to entry, but a select few implement stricter requirements in the hope of maintaining a high standard of quality for clients. And this is usually reflected in the average pay rate of the freelancers registered to the platforms, as in, you’ll often see high rates from those in the latter category. Some of the most popular options are listed below.
34. Kolabtree
What makes Kolabtree a unique proposition as a talent marketplace is that it provides a platform for companies and small businesses alike to hire expert freelancers for short-term projects. The phrase “expert freelancers” in this case refers to certified professionals with a doctorate degree and published research. Kolabtree focuses on such fields of study as healthcare, food & beverage, microbiology, and biotechnology. That said, small businesses are provided with an option to request a specific service not explicitly mentioned on the site, or they can just use the search feature to look for PhD freelancers with the right skills, like electronic engineering or PCB assembly professionals.
Website: Kolabtree.com
35. LinkedIn Talent Solutions
Setting itself apart by framing its presence as a professional networking platform, LinkedIn is a busy place frequented by startups, small businesses, large corporations, recruitment agencies, and self-employed professionals. The platform offers a lot of features, both free and premium, for employers to post job opportunities and find talent from any background. For example, the LinkedIn Recruiter feature gives you access to a candidate database with advanced filtering options and intelligent matching. There’s also LinkedIn Jobs, with which you can post jobs and target them only at relevant members. LinkedIn says that a premium job post receives 3x the number of qualified applicants compared to the free option.
Website: Linkedin.com/talentsolutions
36. Workhoppers
It’s interesting how Workhoppers says that the talent and job matching algorithm in the platform is built like a dating site with a semantic approach to rank candidates. And the result is a lower likelihood of irrelevant freelancers applying to your job post. Every job post on Workhoppers is broadcast to more than 100 partner job boards and through social media. It’s a premium job site, but currently the employer registration process is handled by freelance.ca and freelance.jobs websites, where basic membership is free.
Website: Workhoppers.com
37. PeoplePerHour
Based in the United Kingdom but with a user base spread across more than 100 countries, PeoplePerHour is one of the better-known general freelancing platforms out there on the interweb. The platform promises that every single freelancer registered to the site has been manually reviewed and approved, but the talent matching service is almost entirely done by AI for efficiency. Posting a job is free, although the platform takes a commission from every project completed through its freelance hiring system.
Website: Peopleperhour.com
38. Guru
Using the freelance search feature on Guru for “electrical engineering” delivers nearly 56,000 relevant candidates, whereas PCB Design gives slightly more than 3,600 profiles. For a general freelancing platform, those are pretty respectable results. You can’t directly hire design engineering freelancers from the search results, but you’re allowed to request a quote from them and approve the proposals afterward. Posting a job on the platform is free.
Website: Guru.com
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39. Toptal
Fewer than 3% of all the thousands of freelancers registering with Toptal every month are accepted. This particular general freelancing platform is known for its rigorous vetting and approval processes, which include not only skill assessment but also test projects. Toptal also handles the administrative tasks typically associated with hiring, such as contracts and insurance. It’s a high-premium platform suitable for established companies or at least well-funded startups.
Website: Toptal.com
40. Freelancer
The platform is popular for its competitive environment, where CAD design freelancers apply for jobs by submitting proposals to outbid competitors. It’s easy to browse freelancers’ profiles by skills or location, and then hire them directly or invite them to place bids for your project. There’s also a crowdsourcing feature through a contest, with which you challenge the freelancers to submit their best works and give a financial reward to the winning deliverable.
Website: Freelancer.com
41. Wellfound
All the talent-matching process in Wellfound is handled by its proprietary AI system. The platform claims to have more than 10 million talents across a broad range of industries, and all of them are startup-oriented. The basic account is free, for which you get an infinite number of job postings and a lightweight ATS tool to streamline the talent-finding work. Premium accounts are also available for expanded reach and additional management tools, starting from $149 per month.
Website: Wellfound.com
42. Truelancer
There’s no way to hire freelancers directly on Truelancer. You have to post a project, review proposals from applicants, and select a freelancer you think is most qualified for the project. While it’s possible to search for freelancers based on their skills, you still have to invite them first to apply for the job before hiring. Truelancer only does a limited vetting process, so you should always check the CAD engineering applicants’ profiles carefully by reading reviews, verifying their credentials, and taking a closer look at their work samples.
Website: Truelancer.com
43. Jooble
Direct job posting on Jooble is available only in select countries, including France, Italy, Sweden, Poland, the Netherlands, and a few others in Asian and South American countries. In the United States, however, the feature isn’t available. One way to get around the limitation is to submit a link to the actual job post and let Jooble index it on your behalf. It’s free, and since Jooble is a global partner of LinkedIn and Google, it’s a practical way to increase exposure to your project, website, and talent search.
Website: Jooble.org
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44. Monster
When you post a job to Monster, it gets distributed to the CareerBuilder website and other job boards within the platform’s partner network. Monster gives you access to millions of skilled freelancers and an intuitive dashboard to help you connect with the candidates and manage the incoming applications. Pricing is pretty flexible, as you can choose between a pay-as-you-go rate starting at $18 per day or a subscription model from $299 per month.
Website: Hiring.monster.com
45. Adzuna
Acting more like a recruitment agency than a freelancing platform, Adzuna makes sure you utilize all the available online campaign channels to make sure your project gets as much exposure as it takes to pinpoint the ideal candidate. In addition to the social media sourcing to speed up the search process, it also employs a talent matching tool to connect with both passive and active candidates. Adzuna says the system can cut application processing time by 50% and attract more candidates.
Website: Adzuna.com
46. Expert360 Remote Talent
For every 10 freelancers registering for Expert360, only 1 makes the cut. This is probably why the platform refers to the 3D design freelancers in its database as “experts.” All of them are based in Australia and New Zealand. Expert360 offers an easy-to-use job posting feature, where you get to ask seven questions to determine the candidate requirements and receive no more than two applicants (for efficiency) considered ideal to fill the role in under 48 hours.
Website: Expert360.com
47. Braintrust
Every employer account in Braintrust is granted access to a database of more than a million talents from over 150 countries. It also includes multiple ATS integrations with candidate scorecards, recommendations, and feedback. Brainstrust is a non-profit entity; that said, there’s a 15% commission (or “success rate” as the platform calls it) billed to the client calculated from the invoice generated by your project. All the talent matching processes in Braintrust are done by AI.
Website: Usebraintrust.com
48. Hubstaff Talent
You can browse freelancers in Hubstaff Talent and invite (hire) them to work on your project. Freelancers set their own rates, and the platform charges zero additional markups or extra fees. Hubstaff Talent user interface is a breeze to navigate. You enter relevant keywords into the search bar and filter the results based on skills, availability, pay rates, languages, years of experience, and even age. Posting a job is free.
Website: Hubstafftalent.net
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49. Upwork
One of the largest talent marketplaces, Upwork, comes with more than 70 different skill categories and a plethora of project management tools, including milestone-based payments and a work diary for hourly projects. You can post projects and wait for the bids to come in, or skip that process and purchase ready-made project packages directly from the engineering services freelancers. Upwork isn’t free. Its “marketplace” account comes with a 5% service fee, for which you get 30 job invites and project tracking tools. The “Business Plus” tier, where you have access to the pre-screened top talents, costs a 10% service fee.
Website: Upwork.com
50. Fiverr
In some respects, Fiverr is similar to Hubstaff Talent. Both platforms offer to skip the entire “post a project” step, and instead take you directly to the talent marketplace so you can browse the freelancers, review their profiles, and communicate with them directly on the platform via the messaging feature. Every freelancer offers a project package, but you’re allowed to ask them to make a custom offer based on what you need.
Website: Fiverr.com
Why Cad Crowd is your best choice
Most general freelancing sites and job boards likely have the talents you need for PCB design and electronic engineering projects. However, as the job description gets more specific, you have better chances of finding the right freelancers for the job through specialized platforms. It is for this reason that Cad Crowd sits at the top of the recommended list; not only does it offer easy access to an extensive database of pre-screened freelancers, but it also categorizes their skills and experience.
Cad Crowd helps remove a lot of guesswork typically associated with talent-finding tasks by giving you highly-specific information about each freelancer’s technical abilities in their respective fields of expertise, whether electrical/electronic engineering and PCB design or any other engineering subdiscipline. Contact us for a free quote.
MacKenzie Brown is the founder and CEO of Cad Crowd. With over 18 years of experience in launching and scaling platforms specializing in CAD services, product design, manufacturing, hardware, and software development, MacKenzie is a recognized authority in the engineering industry. Under his leadership, Cad Crowd serves esteemed clients like NASA, JPL, the U.S. Navy, and Fortune 500 companies, empowering innovators with access to high-quality design and engineering talent.
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