Hardware Engineering Specialist - AI Trainer

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark , General Catalyst , Peter Thiel , Adam D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey .

Position: Manufacturing - Electronics Expert

Type: Contract

Compensation: $55–$75/hour

Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Build a realistic digital workspace centered on the Drive folders you use day-to-day. Include design review decks, schematic/layout files, test reports, yield analyses, BOMs, ECOs, reliability/validation reports, and email threads. Represent platforms like ANSYS Fluent , Siemens Opcenter MES , GitHub / GitLab .
• Design multi-step tasks grounded in real workflows. Navigate multiple apps, files, and stakeholders to meaningfully challenge frontier AI agents .
• Collaborate with other electronics-manufacturing experts to design the environment, shape task scope, and review scenarios for realism and rigor.
• Work asynchronously with research teams to refine task designs and evaluation criteria for electronics-manufacturing agent benchmarks.
• Contribute to frontier AI research and benchmarking. Your work directly informs how leading labs train and evaluate the next generation of AI systems .

Qualifications

Must-Have

• BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering , or related discipline.
• 3+ years of full-time experience at a Fortune 500 semiconductor, consumer-electronics, or networking-hardware company , or a major contract manufacturer.
• Background in semiconductor design, fabrication, PCB design, hardware test engineering, or electronics supply-chain.
• Day-to-day use of ANSYS Fluent / STAR-CCM+ , Siemens Opcenter or Rockwell FactoryTalk , and GitHub / GitLab .
• Strong analytical thinking and writing skills.

Compensation & Legal

• Transition from an hourly rate to compensation based on throughput of quality work.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

• Upload resume
• AI interview based on your resume
• Submit form

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