Engineering Simulation Specialist
Listed pay: $60to 90 / hr
What the posting lists, in US dollars an hour, before anything Mercor deducts.
13 openings on this one listing.
How to apply- Platform
- Mercor
- Terms
- Contract, part-time
- Location
- Remote, no country stated
- Posted
- · 1 week ago
- Status
- Open at the last check
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What happens after you click
- The link opens this role on Mercor. Sign up and apply from there.
- Upload a resume, complete the assessments the role asks for and verify your work authorisation.
- An AI interview of about 20 minutes. Mercor says it usually takes 2 to 4 weeks to hear back.
- If Mercor hires you, you are paid weekly, on the Wednesday after each work week, via Stripe. Mercor says first payouts are held for 7 days.
- The work is paid by the hour, at the $60–90 this posting lists.
- Remote. The posting names no country, so we have not assumed one applies.
What the work is
About the role
A frontier engineering-reasoning evaluation run in collaboration with a leading AI research lab. The work measures whether state-of-the-art models can reason from first principles in your engineering domain rather than retrieve facts from training data — and you get visibility into the model's internal reasoning on your own tasks.
What you'll do
Domain experts write simulations and specification sheets; the model attempts to design an artifact — controller gains, circuit parameters, geometry — that satisfies every spec.
You define the simulation, a set of specs with pass/fail thresholds, and the prompt. The model probes your simulation with a limited number of calls, then submits a final design. An agentic grader runs the simulation and scores spec satisfaction.
Who we're looking for
- Deep applied expertise in control systems, analog or RF circuits, power electronics, or mechanical design — PhD or equivalent industry track record.
- Comfortable writing simulations in Python and expressing acceptance criteria as quantitative, testable thresholds.
- Able to design a problem you can't shortcut yourself, but can still judge rigorously.
- Comfortable working in a browser-based studio and GitHub.
Support
Onboarding calls run daily, alongside internal tooling built to help you work faster. Prior model-evaluation experience is not required.
From the Mercor listing.