A&D Manufacturing Expert - 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 - Aerospace & Defense Expert

Type: Contract

Compensation: $1,150–$1,450 per completed task

Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Build a realistic digital workspace centered on the Drive folders you use day-to-day. Include program review decks, CDRLs / SOWs , engineering change proposals, V&V plans , supplier qualification packages, risk registers, and email threads.
• Design multi-step tasks grounded in your real workflows. Require navigating multiple apps, files, and stakeholders to challenge frontier AI agents .
• Collaborate with other aerospace and defense 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 A&D 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

• 3+ years of full-time experience at a Fortune 500 A&D prime , major Tier-1 supplier, or federally-funded R&D center.
• Background in program/project management, aerospace design, supply-chain management, quality assurance, or systems engineering.
• US Person status required for most A&D work.
• Day-to-day use of ANSYS Fluent / STAR-CCM+ , Siemens Opcenter or Rockwell FactoryTalk , and Jira / Confluence .
• Strong analytical thinking and writing skills.

Compensation & Legal

• Task Completion Pay: Competitive and based on task quality.
• Performance Bonus: Weekly bonus incentive for top performers.
• Hourly Opportunity: Transition to hourly compensation based on sustained quality and throughput.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

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

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