Mechanical Engineer - Structural Specialist - AI Trainer

Mercor
Detroit, MI
Job Description
Role Overview

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. This role involves applying hands-on mechanical engineering expertise to complex tasks involving real physical systems and products.

What You Will Do

Review and evaluate mechanical designs, engineering analyses, simulation results, and troubleshooting approaches. Analyse engineering trade-offs involving structures, materials, thermal performance, mechanical design, dynamics, vibration, controls, reliability, and manufacturability.

Why It Might Be a Fit

Must have 5+ years of professional mechanical engineering experience, including at least 3 years of recent hands-on experience in hardware development, analysis, testing, validation, integration, or troubleshooting.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional mechanical engineering experience
  • at least 3 years of recent hands-on experience in hardware development, analysis, testing, validation, integration, or troubleshooting
  • deep technical expertise in at least one core domain: structural/stress analysis and FEA, thermal analysis, mechanical design, or dynamics and controls
  • strong command of materials, loads and boundary conditions, structural margins, fatigue, thermal constraints, tolerances/GD&T, component selection, reliability, manufacturability, system integration, and failure-mode analysis
  • extensive hands-on experience analyzing, testing, debugging, and validating physical hardware using relevant tools such as CAD/CAE, FEA, CFD/thermal simulation, and test instrumentation
  • proven experience developing hardware in real-world product or manufacturing environments
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