Senior Materials Engineer: Crafting Hard Problem Benchmarks

Mercor; New York (NY); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking a senior materials engineering expert to design benchmarks of the hardest reasoning questions in materials science rooted in real industry scenarios. You will author original, free-response problems and provide complete expert-level solutions.

You will validate difficulty by running the problems against three frontier language models until at least one fails, ensuring the challenges push AI evaluation to the limit and remain industry-relevant.

Qualifications

• Requires a PhD in Materials Science & Engineering, Metallurgy, or a materials-focused Mechanical/Chemical Engineering discipline.
• Plus 5+ years of hands-on professional/industry experience in materials selection, failure analysis, testing, or process development.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Materials experience

Problem solving

Education

PhD in Materials Science & Engineering

Job description

Mercor is seeking a senior materials engineering expert to design benchmarks of the hardest reasoning questions in materials science rooted in real industry scenarios. You will author original, free-response problems and provide complete expert-level solutions.

You will validate difficulty by running the problems against three frontier language models until at least one fails, ensuring the challenges push AI evaluation to the limit and remain industry-relevant.