Senior Hardware Integration & Reliability Engineer - Remote

Mercor; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking experienced Systems & Integration Engineers to support an advanced engineering and AI research initiative with a leading technology organization. We are looking for deeply hands-on engineers who have integrated, tested, validated, debugged, qualified, or analyzed complex real-world hardware and electromechanical systems in production environments.

You will work across electrical, mechanical, firmware/software, thermal, controls, and manufacturing domains, owning lifecycle from

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional systems, integration, reliability, or test engineering experience.
• Hands-on hardware integration, test, validation, qualification, failure analysis, or troubleshooting.
• Experience as responsible engineer for complex physical systems or hardware products.
• Deep expertise in systems engineering, hardware integration and test, reliability, or manufacturing/test engineering.
• Experience integrating, instrumenting, testing, debugging physical hardware with lab equipment and data-acquisition systems.

Responsibilities

• Apply hands-on systems, integration, reliability, and test engineering expertise to technically complex problems involving real physical products and hardware systems.
• Review and evaluate system requirements, interfaces, integration plans, verification strategies, test procedures, qualification approaches, reliability analyses, and manufacturing test workflows.
• Analyze system-level interactions across electrical, mechanical, firmware/software, thermal, controls, and manufacturing domains.
• Assess the technical correctness and practical feasibility of engineering solutions, test strategies, troubleshooting approaches, and system-level decisions.
• Diagnose integration failures and identify root causes, interface issues, design deficiencies, reliability risks, manufacturing defects, and test coverage gaps.
• Develop or review technically rigorous engineering problems, reference solutions, test cases, verification criteria, failure analyses, and technical documentation.
• Draw on practical experience with prototype integration, bring-up, verification and validation, qualification, environmental testing, reliability testing, production test, and field failure investigation.
• Provide clear technical feedback grounded in real-world hardware development, testing, and production experience.

Skills

Systems Engineering

Integration & Test Engineering

Reliability / Failure Analysis

Manufacturing Test Engineering

Job description

Mercor is seeking experienced Systems & Integration Engineers to support an advanced engineering and AI research initiative with a leading technology organization. We are looking for deeply hands-on engineers who have integrated, tested, validated, debugged, qualified, or analyzed complex real-world hardware and electromechanical systems in production environments.

You will work across electrical, mechanical, firmware/software, thermal, controls, and manufacturing domains, owning lifecycle from