Industrial Engineers

About the Role

Mercor is hiring experienced Industrial Engineers to help evaluate and improve cutting-edge AI systems. In this role, you'll evaluate AI-generated industrial engineering content and workflows, leveraging your real-world expertise in designing production systems, quality control, and process optimization.

Key Responsibilities

• Evaluate AI-generated production plans, process designs, quality analyses, and other industrial engineering artifacts for quality and accuracy.

• Compare AI-generated responses head-to-head based on engineering rigor, process efficiency, and quality-control soundness.

• Review industrial engineering scenarios involving production sequencing, cost analysis, quality standards, and logistics coordination and provide expert feedback.

Required Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience as an Industrial Engineer, Process Engineer, Quality Engineer, Continuous Improvement Engineer, Operations Engineer, or another closely related industrial engineering role.

• Experience designing, developing, or evaluating integrated production systems including quality control, inventory control, logistics, cost analysis, or production coordination.

• Ability to commit 20+ hours per week.

• Strong written English communication skills.

Additional Information

• Start date: Immediate

• Duration: Approximately 4–6 weeks

• Payment: task-based (payment upon first task approval). Experts who complete their first task within the required timeline will then be qualified to be paid hourly for the remainder of the project.

We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request.

Contract and Payment Terms

• You will be engaged as an independent contractor.
• This is a fully remote role that can be completed on your own schedule.
• Projects can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance.
• Your work at Mercor will not involve access to confidential or proprietary information from any employer, client, or institution.
• Payments are weekly on Stripe or Wise based on services rendered.
• Please note: We are unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates at this time.

About Mercor

Mercor partners with leading AI labs and enterprises to train frontier models using human expertise. You will work on projects that focus on training and enhancing AI systems. You will be paid competitively, collaborate with leading researchers, and help shape the next generation of AI systems in your area of expertise.