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Materials & Engineering Specialist

We build materials-science and engineering tasks that test how well an AI model does real expert work. You write a realistic task — a prompt, a data room, and a way to grade it — run it against the model, and tighten it until the model can no longer reason through it cleanly.

Remote$60–$90 per hour
Hiring companyMercor
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About the role

Daily onboarding sessions and multiple office hours every day.

Contract and Payment Terms

  • You will be engaged as an independent contractor.
  • This is a fully remote role that can be completed on your own schedule.
  • Projects can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance.
  • Your work at Mercor will not involve access to confidential or proprietary information from any employer, client, or institution.

Responsibilities

  • Author domain-authentic tasks drawn from work you've actually done.
  • Build the data room and grading criteria that make the task objectively scorable.
  • Run the task against the model, analyse where it succeeds or fails, and iterate until it genuinely discriminates.
  • Work with the project lead and other domain experts to settle what "good" looks like in your domain.

Required skills

  • Senior expertise in materials science — metals, ceramics, composites, characterization, additive manufacturing — or in electrical engineering (analog, RF, power) or mechanical engineering (design, CFD and fluids, heat transfer, pressure vessels, NDE, CAE).
  • Comfortable navigating ambiguity — much of the work is still being defined, and shaping it is part of the role.
  • Able to explain not just the right answer, but why a wrong answer is wrong.

Eligibility

Work arrangement: Fully remote

  • Please note: We are unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates at this time.

Compensation details

$60–$90 per hour.

  • Payments are weekly on Stripe or Wise based on services rendered.
More about the hiring companyMercor
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