Engineering Simulation Specialist
Mercor
$60 – $90/hour · as listed
Engineering Simulation Specialist – Remote AI Evaluation Work
This remote position involves evaluating advanced AI models on engineering reasoning tasks through a collaborative project with a leading AI research lab. As an Engineering Simulation Specialist, you'll design and assess simulation-based problems that test whether state-of-the-art models can reason from first principles rather than rely on pattern matching. Your work directly contributes to understanding AI capabilities in your engineering domain.
The role suits intermediate-level professionals with a STEM background who want hands-on involvement in AI training and evaluation. You'll work approximately 30 hours per week on an hourly basis, with flexibility built into the remote arrangement. This is ideal for engineers looking to deepen their expertise while participating in cutting-edge AI research.
Compensation is $60–$90 per hour, depending on experience and expertise. This is contractor work through the Mercor platform, offering the opportunity to see firsthand how frontier models approach complex engineering problems.
From the listing: Mercor marketplace · hourly · 30h/week. About the role A frontier engineering-reasoning evaluation run in collaboration with a leading AI research lab. The work measures whether state-of-the-art models can reason from first principles in your engineering domain rather than retrieve facts from training data — and you get visibility into the model's internal reasoning on your own tasks. What you'll do Domain experts write simul
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