Systems Engineer – Hardware Integration – AI Trainer

Job overview

The Systems Engineer – Hardware Integration – AI Trainer role is remote. Compensation is $100–$120 per hour. Mercor connects technical talent with AI research labs, and this role applies practical hardware engineering expertise to technical evaluation and content development. The engineer reviews and evaluates systems engineering materials and analyzes interactions across hardware domains. The work uses real-world integration, testing, reliability, and production experience to develop rigorous engineering problems, reference solutions, test cases, and technical feedback.

What you'll do

• Apply systems, integration, reliability, and test engineering expertise to physical hardware problems
• review requirements, interfaces, integration plans, verification strategies, test procedures, qualification approaches, reliability analyses, and manufacturing test workflows
• analyze system interactions across electrical, mechanical, firmware/software, thermal, controls, and manufacturing domains
• diagnose integration failures and identify root causes and test gaps
• develop or review engineering problems, solutions, test cases, verification criteria, failure analyses, and technical documentation.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

systems engineer

hardware integration

ai trainer

remote

reliability engineering

test engineering

verification and validation

root-cause analysis

manufacturing test

mercor

$100–$120/hour

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

Remote contract opportunity; requires 5+ years of relevant engineering experience, including at least 3 years of recent hands-on hardware integration, test, validation, qualification, failure analysis, manufacturing test, or troubleshooting experience.

About the employer

Mercor is hiring for this role. Industry: Computer Systems Design Services. Sector: 54.