Power Systems Engineer (Substation, Transmission, Interconnection)

Role overview

Mercor is hiring power systems engineers with recent hands-on industry experience to review and annotate complex electrical engineering tasks. You will assess realistic design and study scenarios and produce clear written technical findings.

What you will do

• Review tasks across substation design, transmission design, and generation interconnection: circuit and control design, switchgear and protection, single-line diagrams, and power distribution

• Check engineering assumptions, calculations, code and standards use, and equipment data

• Flag ambiguity, missing constraints, and unrealistic deliverables

• Produce clear written findings

Requirements

• Recent hands-on experience as a power systems professional in one or more of: substation design, transmission design, or generation interconnection. This is mandatory.

• Minimum 1 year of relevant industry experience

• Circuit design depth: protection and controls, switchgear, power distribution, and the associated calculations

• Experience at an EPC contractor, utility, transmission owner, power generation developer, ISO/RTO, or owner's engineering group

• Your resume should clearly show relevant power systems experience

Details

• Approximately 10 to 20 hours per week initially

• Immediate start

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.