Materials – Engineering Specialist

🕒 September 27

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $60 - $90 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🖥 Software Engineer

👻 Ghost score 9%

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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 or engineering tasks based on real professional work • Build data rooms and grading criteria that make tasks objectively scorable • 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 • Help train and enhance frontier AI systems through human expertise

🎯 Requirements

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

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote role • Flexible own schedule • Daily onboarding sessions • Multiple office hours every day • Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise based on services rendered • Projects may be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance • Referral opportunity earning up to $360 per successful referral, subject to limits • Reasonable accommodations upon request