Systems & Integration Engineer at Mercor

Systems & Integration Engineer | $100-120/hr | Remote | Contract

Mercor is hiring experienced Systems & Integration Engineers to support an advanced engineering and AI research initiative with a leading technology organization. The work applies hands-on expertise with complex real-world hardware and electromechanical systems to technically challenging problems.

What the work involves

• Apply systems, integration, reliability, and test engineering expertise to complex problems involving physical products and hardware systems.
• Review and evaluate system requirements, interfaces, integration plans, verification strategies, test procedures, qualification approaches, reliability analyses, and manufacturing test workflows.
• Analyze system-level interactions across electrical, mechanical, firmware/software, thermal, controls, and manufacturing domains.
• Diagnose integration failures and identify root causes, interface issues, design deficiencies, reliability risks, manufacturing defects, and test coverage gaps.
• Develop or review rigorous engineering problems, reference solutions, test cases, verification criteria, failure analyses, and technical documentation.
• Provide technical feedback grounded in real-world hardware development, testing, and production experience.

Who it's for

• 5+ years of professional systems, integration, reliability, or test engineering experience, including at least 3 years of recent, actively hands-on experience with hardware integration, test, validation, qualification, failure analysis, manufacturing test, or troubleshooting—not solely program or people management.
• Experience as the responsible engineer for complex physical systems or hardware products, owning parts of the lifecycle from requirements and interface definition through integration, verification, qualification, production readiness, and field support.
• Deep expertise in at least one core domain: systems engineering and requirements/V&V; hardware integration and test; reliability engineering and failure analysis; or manufacturing/production test engineering.
• Practical command of requirements traceability, interface management, V&V, test planning, FMEA/FMECA, fault isolation, root-cause analysis, qualification, environmental testing, design-for-test, manufacturing yield, and system-level failure modes, as applicable to your specialization.
• Hands-on experience integrating, instrumenting, testing, debugging, and characterizing physical hardware using lab equipment, data-acquisition systems, automated test infrastructure, environmental test equipment, and diagnostic tools.
• Experience developing and validating hardware in real-world product or manufacturing environments—e.g., aerospace/defense, space, automotive/EV, semiconductors, consumer electronics, robotics/eVTOL, industrial/energy, or medical devices.

Pay and schedule

$100-120/hr, hourly contract engagement with flexible, remote work structures.

Where applicants can be

Fully remote; the source does not restrict location.