Mechanical Engineering PhD - Problem Author

Mercor; Mumbai; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking a senior mechanical engineering expert to craft challenging, industry-grounded problems.

You will author original, free-response questions and provide complete expert-level solutions grounded in real industry scenarios. The role requires a PhD in Mechanical Engineering and 8+ years of hands-on experience in design, analysis or R&D.

Qualifications

• PhD in Mechanical Engineering required.
• 8+ years of hands-on experience in design, analysis or R&D.

Responsibilities

• Author original, free-response mechanical engineering problems grounded in real industry scenarios.
• Write a complete expert-level solution for each problem.
• Validate difficulty by running it against frontier language models.

Education

PhD in Mechanical Engineering

Job description

We're looking for a senior mechanical engineering expert to help build a benchmark of the hardest reasoning questions in the field — questions specifically designed to be difficult enough that today's most capable AI models still get them wrong. You'll author original, free-response engineering problems grounded in real industry scenarios, write a complete expert-level solution for each, and validate difficulty by running it against three frontier language models until at least one fails.

Requirements: PhD in Mechanical Engineering, plus 8+ years of hands-on professional/industry experience in design, analysis, or R&D. Candidates from well-known/blue-chip employers preferred.