Materials Science Expert - Engineering

Mercor; Berlin; Vor Ort; EUR 90.000 - 150.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Mercor is seeking a senior professional to design domain-authentic tasks in materials science, electrical engineering, or mechanical engineering. You will craft prompts, data rooms, and objective grading to test expert reasoning in AI models.

You will collaborate with project leads and domain experts to define “good” performance and continuously refine tasks as ambiguity is navigated. This role requires clear explanations of both correct and incorrect reasoning.

Qualifikationen

• Senior expertise in materials science, electrical engineering, or mechanical engineering.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and shape undefined work.
• Explain not only the right answer, but why a wrong answer is wrong.

Aufgaben

• Author domain-authentic tasks drawn from work you've actually done.
• Build the data room and grading criteria that make the task objectively scorable.
• Run the task against the model, analyse where it succeeds or fails, and iterate until it discriminates.
• Work with the project lead and other domain experts to settle what 'good' looks like in your domain.

Kenntnisse

Materials science

Electrical engineering

Mechanical engineering

Jobbeschreibung

About the role

We build materials-science and engineering tasks that test how well an AI model does real expert work. You write a realistic task — a prompt, a data room, and a way to grade it — run it against the model, and tighten it until the model can no longer reason through it cleanly.

What you'll do

• Author domain-authentic tasks drawn from work you've actually done.
• Build the data room and grading criteria that make the task objectively scorable.
• Run the task against the model, analyse where it succeeds or fails, and iterate until it genuinely discriminates.
• Work with the project lead and other domain experts to settle what "good" looks like in your domain.

Who we're looking for

• Senior expertise in materials science — metals, ceramics, composites, characterization, additive manufacturing — or in electrical engineering (analog, RF, power) or mechanical engineering (design, CFD and fluids, heat transfer, pressure vessels, NDE, CAE).
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity — much of the work is still being defined, and shaping it is part of the role.
• Able to explain not just the right answer, but why a wrong answer is wrong.

Support

Daily onboarding sessions and multiple office hours every day.