Power Station Electrical Engineer - AI Trainer

Obsidian; Detroit (MI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking hands-on power systems professionals to review and annotate complex electrical engineering tasks. You will assess real design and study scenarios and produce clear written technical findings.

The role focuses on substation design, transmission design, and generation interconnection, with emphasis on protection, controls, switchgear, and power distribution calculations. Immediate start, part-time 10–20 hours per week.

Qualifications

• Recent hands-on experience as a power systems professional in substation design, transmission design, or generation interconnection.
• Minimum 1 year of relevant industry experience.
• Experience with protection and controls, switchgear, and power distribution calculations.
• Experience at EPC contractor, utility, transmission owner, power generation developer, ISO/RTO, or owner's engineering group.
• Resume clearly shows power systems experience.

Responsibilities

• Review tasks across substation design, transmission design, and generation interconnection.
• Check engineering assumptions, calculations, code and standards use, and equipment data.
• Flag ambiguity and missing constraints.
• Produce clear written findings.

Skills

Power systems

Substation design

Transmission design

Generation interconnection

Circuit design and calculations

Job description

Role overview

Mercor is hiring power systems engineers with recent hands-on industry experience to review and annotate complex electrical engineering tasks. You will assess realistic design and study scenarios and produce clear written technical findings.

What you will do

• Review tasks across substation design, transmission design, and generation interconnection: circuit and control design, switchgear and protection, single-line diagrams, and power distribution

• Check engineering assumptions, calculations, code and standards use, and equipment data

• Flag ambiguity, missing constraints, and unrealistic deliverables

• Produce clear written findings

Requirements

• Recent hands-on experience as a power systems professional in one or more of: substation design, transmission design, or generation interconnection. This is mandatory.

• Minimum 1 year of relevant industry experience

• Circuit design depth: protection and controls, switchgear, power distribution, and the associated calculations

• Experience at an EPC contractor, utility, transmission owner, power generation developer, ISO/RTO, or owner's engineering group

• Your resume should clearly show relevant power systems experience

Details

• Approximately 10 to 20 hours per week initially

• Immediate start

We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request.