Mechanical Engineer - Structural Specialist (Remote)

Mercor; Detroit (MI); Remote; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking experienced Mechanical Engineers to support an advanced engineering and AI research initiative with a leading technology organization. You will work on physical hardware systems, performing analysis, testing, validation, and troubleshooting in production environments.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of hands-on hardware development experience and deep knowledge in structural, thermal, or dynamics engineering.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional mechanical engineering experience.
• Hands-on hardware development and testing.
• Experience leading hardware in real-world products or systems.

Responsibilities

• Apply hands-on mechanical engineering expertise to technically complex tasks involving real physical systems and products.
• Review and evaluate mechanical designs, engineering analyses, simulation results, test methodologies and troubleshooting approaches.
• Analyse engineering trade-offs involving structures, materials, thermal performance, mechanical design, dynamics, vibration, controls, reliability and manufacturability.
• Assess the technical correctness and practical feasibility of engineering solutions for real-world problems.
• Identify incorrect assumptions, boundary conditions, design deficiencies, failure modes and potential risks.
• Develop or review technically rigorous engineering problems, reference solutions, evaluation criteria and supporting documentation.
• Draw on experience with design, simulation, prototyping, hardware integration, test, validation, qualification, debugging and manufacturing.

Skills

Hands-on engineering

Hardware development

Analytical problem solving

Testing & validation

Prototype development

Cross-functional collaboration

Materials & structures knowledge

Tools

CAD/CAE

FEA

CFD

Test instrumentation

Data acquisition

Job description

Mercor is seeking experienced Mechanical Engineers to support an advanced engineering and AI research initiative with a leading technology organization. You will work on physical hardware systems, performing analysis, testing, validation, and troubleshooting in production environments.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of hands-on hardware development experience and deep knowledge in structural, thermal, or dynamics engineering.