Hardware Engineering Specialist - Fully Remote | Upto $1450 Part-time

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey.

Position: Manufacturing - Electronics Expert
Type: Contract
Compensation: $1,150–$1,450/task
Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Build a realistic digital workspace centered on the Drive folders you use daily. Include design review decks, schematic/layout files, test reports, yield analyses, BOMs, ECOs, reliability/validation reports, and email threads. Represent platforms like ANSYS Fluent, Siemens Opcenter MES, GitHub/GitLab.
• Design multi-step tasks grounded in real workflows. Require navigating multiple apps, files, and stakeholders to challenge frontier AI agents.
• Collaborate with other electronics-manufacturing experts to design the environment, shape task scope, and review scenarios for realism and rigor.
• Work asynchronously with research teams to refine task designs and evaluation criteria for electronics-manufacturing agent benchmarks.
• Contribute to frontier AI research and benchmarking. Your work directly informs how leading labs train and evaluate the next generation of AI systems.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related discipline
• 3+ years of full-time experience at a Fortune 500 semiconductor, consumer-electronics, or networking-hardware company, or a major contract manufacturer (Foxconn, Flex, Jabil, Celestica)
• Background in semiconductor design, fabrication, PCB design, electronic-assembly, hardware test engineering, or electronics supply-chain
• Day-to-day use of ANSYS Fluent/STAR-CCM+, Siemens Opcenter or Rockwell FactoryTalk, and GitHub/GitLab
• Strong analytical thinking and writing skills

Compensation & Legal

• Task Completion Pay: Competitive and based on task quality (~$1,150 – $1,450 per completed task, subject to change as the project evolves)
• Performance Bonus: Top performers receive a weekly bonus incentive on top of their per task rate
• Hourly Opportunity: Top performers may be invited to transition to an hourly compensation model based on sustained quality and throughput

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

• Upload resume
• AI interview based on your resume
• Submit form

Resources & Support

• For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome
• For any help or support, reach out to: support@mercor.com

PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.