Mechanical Engineering Writer at Mercor

Mechanical Engineering Writer | $80/hr | Remote (Contractor)

About the role

Mercor is hiring senior mechanical engineering professionals to design evaluation tasks for AI systems operating in Fortune 500 enterprise product design and manufacturing contexts. The work runs on two standards tracks — a US track (ASME) and an international track (ISO) — and experts qualified in either or both are encouraged to apply. You will create enterprise engineering scenarios, draft reference outputs, and write rubrics that reflect how senior F500 engineering leaders think. The workflows are calibrated to the design complexity, safety stakes, and production scale of Fortune 500 and large industrial manufacturers.

What you'll do

• Construct enterprise mechanical engineering scenarios spanning complex product design cycles, multi-stakeholder design reviews, and manufacturing or regulatory certification processes at Fortune 500 accounts.
• Build tasks across F500 product design and CAD modeling, thermal/fluid systems analysis, structural and stress analysis, manufacturing process engineering, and reliability/failure analysis.
• Develop scenarios involving tools such as SolidWorks, ANSYS, CATIA, MATLAB/Simulink, and enterprise PLM systems (Siemens Teamcenter, PTC Windchill).
• Apply enterprise mechanical engineering methodologies (FEA/CFD simulation, DFM/DFA principles, Six Sigma/DFSS, GD&T per ASME Y14.5 or ISO GPS) and produce reference design specifications, engineering analyses, and executive-level technical narratives.
• Author rubrics that distinguish authentic enterprise mechanical engineering judgment from generic textbook or coursework-level recall.

Who should apply

• 5+ years working as a mechanical engineer or engineering lead at a Fortune 500 or major industrial, automotive, aerospace, or manufacturing company (such as GE, Boeing, Caterpillar, Ford, Honeywell, Siemens, Bosch, Rolls-Royce, or Mitsubishi Heavy Industries).
• Direct ownership of large-scale product designs, manufacturing processes, or engineering certification programs.
• Fluency in enterprise mechanical engineering tooling and methodologies, plus an understanding of how safety standards, regulatory certification (ASME, ISO, FAA, FDA), and cross-functional design governance actually work.
• A professional engineering credential (US PE or an international equivalent such as CEng or EUR ING) and prior rubric, engineering-training curriculum, or design documentation authorship are a plus.

Pay and location

$80/hr contractor role, fully remote. Work follows either the US (ASME) or international (ISO) standards track.