Materials and Engineering Specialist

🕒 September 2

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $60 - $90 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🖥 Software Engineer

👻 Ghost score 15%

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Mercor

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2023

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $350M Series C - Mercor on 2025-10

Mercor is a company for which no descriptive text was provided in the input. Additional information (products, services, target customers, or industry specifics) is needed to create an accurate summary and select appropriate industries.

📋 Description

• Author domain-authentic materials-science, electrical-engineering, or mechanical-engineering tasks based on prior work • Build data rooms and grading criteria for objectively scorable tasks • Run tasks against AI models, analyze successes and failures, and iterate until tasks discriminate effectively • Collaborate with project leads and other domain experts to define quality standards • Participate in onboarding sessions and office hours

🎯 Requirements

• Senior expertise in materials science (metals, ceramics, composites, characterization, additive manufacturing), electrical engineering (analog, RF, power), or mechanical engineering (design, CFD and fluids, heat transfer, pressure vessels, NDE, CAE) • Comfortable navigating ambiguity • Able to explain why a wrong answer is wrong • Independent contractor engagement • Must not be an H1-B or STEM OPT candidate • Work must not involve access to confidential or proprietary information from any employer, client, or institution

🏖️ Benefits

• Payments are weekly on Stripe or Wise based on services rendered • Daily onboarding sessions and multiple office hours every day • Fully remote role • Can be completed on your own schedule • Competitive pay • Collaborate with leading researchers • Referral earnings of up to $360 per successful referral