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Core Competencies
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Demonstrates extensive mechanical engineering expertise with a focus on hardware development, analysis, testing, and validation. Proficient in structural analysis, thermal management, and mechanical design, with a strong ability to communicate technical decisions and trade-offs effectively.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Mechanical Engineering ExperienceHardware DevelopmentStructural/Stress AnalysisCAD/CAE ProficiencyFailure-Mode Analysis
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Hard Skills
Mechanical DesignThermal AnalysisFinite Element Analysis (FEA)Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)Testing and ValidationPrototypingDebuggingManufacturing ReadinessData AcquisitionRoot-Cause Analysis
Soft Skills
Technical CommunicationProblem-Solving
Tools & Technologies
CAD SoftwareCAE ToolsTest InstrumentationSimulation Software
Industry Keywords
Mechanical SystemsProduct DevelopmentEngineering LifecycleManufacturing EnvironmentsAI Research Projects
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Apply hands-on mechanical engineering expertise to technically complex tasks involving physical systems and products
- Review and evaluate mechanical designs, engineering analyses, simulation results, test methodologies, and troubleshooting approaches
- Analyze 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
- Identify incorrect assumptions, unrealistic boundary conditions, design deficiencies, failure modes, and implementation or reliability risks
- Develop or review rigorous engineering problems, reference solutions, evaluation criteria, and technical documentation
- Apply practical experience in design, simulation, prototyping, hardware integration, testing, validation, qualification, debugging, and manufacturing
- Provide clear technical feedback grounded in engineering experience and established principles
- Contribute to AI research projects focused on training and enhancing AI systems at Mercor, which partners with AI labs and enterprises
Requirements
What you’ll need- 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 portions of the engineering lifecycle from requirements and analysis through design, prototyping, testing, validation, qualification, and manufacturing readiness
- 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 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
- Hands-on experience analyzing, testing, debugging, and validating physical hardware
- Experience with CAD/CAE, FEA, CFD/thermal simulation, dynamic or controls simulation, test instrumentation, data acquisition, and structured root-cause analysis
- Experience developing hardware in real-world product or manufacturing environments
- Ability to clearly explain technical decisions, design trade-offs, test results, and failure mechanisms
- Experience working for a company that designs, builds, tests, and manufactures physical hardware products or systems is strongly preferred
- Must not require H1-B or STEM OPT support
Benefits
Comp & perks- Fully remote work
- Flexible engagement structures
- Work on your own schedule
- Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise
- Competitive pay
- Referral rewards of 20% of a referral's earnings across their projects, subject to a cap and limits
- Reasonable accommodations upon request