Hardware Engineering Specialist - Fully Remote | Upto $75/hr

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
  
  
  

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
  
  
  

PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.