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Mechanical Engineering Experts evaluating real-world mechanical and electromechanical systems for Mercor’s AI research initiatives. Reviewing designs, simulations, testing, failure modes, and hardware engineering solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Apply hands-on mechanical engineering expertise to technically complex tasks involving real physical systems and products
- Review and evaluate mechanical designs, engineering analyses, simulation results, test methodologies, and troubleshooting approaches
- Analyze engineering trade-offs involving structures, materials, thermal performance, mechanical design, dynamics, vibration, controls, reliability, and manufacturability
- Assess the technical correctness and practical feasibility of engineering solutions for real-world mechanical engineering problems
- Identify incorrect assumptions, unrealistic boundary conditions, design deficiencies, failure modes, and implementation or reliability risks
- Develop or review technically rigorous engineering problems, reference solutions, evaluation criteria, and technical documentation
- Draw on practical experience with design, simulation, prototyping, hardware integration, testing, validation, qualification, debugging, and manufacturing
- Provide clear technical feedback grounded in real-world engineering experience and established engineering principles
- Contribute to projects at the intersection of advanced hardware engineering and AI research
- Help improve how advanced AI systems reason about mechanical design, structural analysis, thermal systems, dynamics, controls, testing, and hardware troubleshooting
- Collaborate remotely with experienced engineers and researchers
Requirements:
- 5+ years of professional mechanical engineering experience
- At least 3 years of recent, actively hands-on experience in hardware development, analysis, testing, validation, integration, bring-up, or troubleshooting
- Experience as the responsible engineer for real hardware or physical systems, owning meaningful portions of the engineering lifecycle
- Deep technical expertise in at least one core domain: structural/stress analysis and FEA; thermal analysis, heat transfer, and thermal management; mechanical design and product development; or dynamics, vibration, mechanisms, and controls
- Strong practical command of materials, loads and boundary conditions, structural margins, fatigue, thermal constraints, tolerances/GD&T, component selection, reliability, manufacturability, system integration, and engineering failure-mode analysis
- Extensive hands-on experience analyzing, testing, debugging, and validating physical hardware
- Experience using relevant engineering tools such as CAD/CAE, FEA, CFD/thermal simulation, dynamic or controls simulation, test instrumentation, data acquisition, and structured root-cause analysis
- Proven experience developing hardware in real-world product or manufacturing environments
- Experience in or comparable to hardware-focused industries such as aerospace/defense, space, automotive/EV, semiconductors, consumer electronics, robotics/eVTOL, industrial/energy, or medical devices
- Ability to clearly explain technical decisions, design trade-offs, test results, and failure mechanisms
- Independent contractor engagement
- Must not require H1-B or STEM OPT support
Benefits:
- Fully remote role
- Flexible engagement structures
- Work on your own schedule
- Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise based on services rendered
- Projects can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance
- Competitive pay
- Opportunity to collaborate with leading researchers
- Opportunity to contribute to training and enhancement of AI systems
- Referral payments of up to $480 for each successful referral, subject to referral limits
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