Automotive Mechanical Engineer - Expert
$1,150 - $1,450 per monthMercor
Job Description
Job Description
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 - Automotive (Mechanical Engineering) 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 reviews, DFMEA / PFMEA documents, PPAP packages, tolerance analyses, benchmarking decks, test reports, and email threads.
- Design multi-step tasks grounded in real workflows. Require navigation of multiple apps, files, and stakeholders to challenge frontier AI agents .
- Collaborate with other automotive engineering 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 automotive engineering 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 Mechanical Engineering or related discipline.
- 3+ years of full-time experience at a Fortune 500 automotive OEM or Tier-1 supplier .
- Expertise in vehicle or subsystem design, CAE/CAD/simulation engineering , manufacturing/process engineering, or quality engineering.
- Day-to-day use of ANSYS Fluent / STAR-CCM+ , Siemens Opcenter , or SAP S/4HANA .
- 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: Potential transition to hourly compensation for 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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