Industrial & Manufacturing Engineer at Mercor
posted 1 hour agoIndustrial & Manufacturing Engineer | $50-60/hr | Remote | Part-time (10-20 hrs/week)
About the role
Mercor is hiring industrial and manufacturing engineers with 2-3 years of professional experience, or currently enrolled postgrad engineering students, to support a research project with a leading AI lab. You will complete real process, operations, and production engineering workflows on your own Mac to help benchmark and improve cutting-edge AI models.
Requirements
- You must own a MacBook or Mac with an Apple M-series chip or Intel processor, running macOS 15 or higher. Applicants without a Mac cannot be considered.
- Degree in Industrial, Manufacturing, or Systems Engineering, or a related field
- Experience with process design, lean/Six Sigma, production planning, quality control, or supply chain analysis, using spreadsheets, CAD, process-mapping, or statistical tools
- Currently pursuing or recently completed Masters studies, or 2-3 years of relevant experience plus a Bachelors from a prestigious institution
- Ability to clearly explain your engineering decisions while you work
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
What you'll do
Complete and narrate real industrial and manufacturing engineering tasks on your Mac to create high-quality training data for advanced AI models. Responsibilities are clearly structured, without the high pressure typically found in internships or full-time consulting roles.
Pay and schedule
- $50-60/hr
- Part-time, approximately 10-20 hours per week
- Immediate start preferred
Hiring process
- Submit your resume
- Brief 3-minute conversation with an AI interviewer to assess research and reasoning skills
- Brief paid assessment to further evaluate your fit for the role
- Follow-up within a few days on your application status and next steps
How to apply for this role
- Upload your resume — keep it up-to-date and in English. Mercor will auto-fill your profile from it.
- Complete the AI interview — a 15-minute conversation about your experience. Be ready to discuss specific projects and challenges you've solved.
- Submit your application — only about 20% of applicants finish all the steps, so completing yours puts you well ahead.