Mechanical Engineer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $100 - $120 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🧑‍🔧 Mechanical Engineer

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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

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📋 Description

• Apply hands-on mechanical engineering expertise to technically complex tasks involving real physical systems and products • Review and evaluate mechanical designs, engineering analyses, simulation results, test methodologies, and troubleshooting approaches • Analyze engineering trade-offs involving structures, materials, thermal performance, mechanical design, dynamics, vibration, controls, reliability, and manufacturability • Assess the technical correctness and practical feasibility of engineering solutions for real-world mechanical engineering problems • Identify incorrect assumptions, unrealistic boundary conditions, design deficiencies, failure modes, and implementation or reliability risks • Develop or review technically rigorous engineering problems, reference solutions, evaluation criteria, and technical documentation • Draw on practical experience with design, simulation, prototyping, hardware integration, testing, validation, qualification, debugging, and manufacturing • Provide clear technical feedback grounded in real-world engineering experience and established engineering principles • Contribute to projects at the intersection of advanced hardware engineering and AI research • Help improve how advanced AI systems reason about mechanical design, structural analysis, thermal systems, dynamics, controls, testing, and hardware troubleshooting • Collaborate remotely with experienced engineers and researchers

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of professional mechanical engineering experience • At least 3 years of recent, actively hands-on experience in hardware development, analysis, testing, validation, integration, bring-up, or troubleshooting • Experience as the responsible engineer for real hardware or physical systems, owning meaningful portions of the engineering lifecycle • Deep technical expertise in at least one core domain: structural/stress analysis and FEA; thermal analysis, heat transfer, and thermal management; mechanical design and product development; or dynamics, vibration, mechanisms, and controls • Strong practical command of materials, loads and boundary conditions, structural margins, fatigue, thermal constraints, tolerances/GD&T, component selection, reliability, manufacturability, system integration, and engineering failure-mode analysis • Extensive hands-on experience analyzing, testing, debugging, and validating physical hardware • Experience using relevant engineering tools such as CAD/CAE, FEA, CFD/thermal simulation, dynamic or controls simulation, test instrumentation, data acquisition, and structured root-cause analysis • Proven experience developing hardware in real-world product or manufacturing environments • Experience in or comparable to hardware-focused industries such as aerospace/defense, space, automotive/EV, semiconductors, consumer electronics, robotics/eVTOL, industrial/energy, or medical devices • Ability to clearly explain technical decisions, design trade-offs, test results, and failure mechanisms • Independent contractor engagement • Must not require H1-B or STEM OPT support

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote role • Flexible engagement structures • Work on your own schedule • Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise based on services rendered • Projects can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance • Competitive pay • Opportunity to collaborate with leading researchers • Opportunity to contribute to training and enhancement of AI systems • Referral payments of up to $480 for each successful referral, subject to referral limits