Mechanical Engineer - Structural Specialist

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: Mechanical Engineering Experts
Type: Contract
Compensation: $100–$120/hour
Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Apply hands-on mechanical engineering expertise to complex tasks involving real physical systems and products.
• Review and evaluate mechanical designs, engineering analyses, simulation results, and troubleshooting approaches.
• Analyse engineering trade-offs involving structures, materials, thermal performance, mechanical design, dynamics, vibration, controls, reliability, and manufacturability.
• Assess the technical correctness and feasibility of engineering solutions for real-world problems.
• Identify incorrect assumptions, design deficiencies, failure modes, and potential implementation risks.
• Develop or review engineering problems, reference solutions, evaluation criteria, and supporting documentation.
• Draw on practical experience with design, simulation, prototyping, hardware integration, test, validation, qualification, debugging, and manufacturing.
• Provide clear technical feedback grounded in real-world engineering experience and established principles.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• 5+ years of professional mechanical engineering experience, including at least 3 years of recent hands-on experience in hardware development, analysis, testing, validation, integration, or troubleshooting.
• Experience as the responsible engineer for real hardware or physical systems, owning portions of the engineering lifecycle.
• Deep technical expertise in at least one core domain: structural/stress analysis and FEA, thermal analysis, mechanical design, or dynamics and controls.
• Strong command of materials, loads and boundary conditions, structural margins, fatigue, thermal constraints, tolerances/GD&T, component selection, reliability, manufacturability, system integration, and failure-mode analysis.
• Extensive hands-on experience analyzing, testing, debugging, and validating physical hardware using relevant tools such as CAD/CAE, FEA, CFD/thermal simulation, and test instrumentation.
• Proven experience developing hardware in real-world product or manufacturing environments.

Preferred

• Experience working for a company that designs, builds, tests, and manufactures physical hardware products or systems.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

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

Resources & Support

• For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome
• For any help or support, reach out to: support@mercor.com

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