Integration Engineer - Fully Remote · Up to $120/hr

About the job Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark , General Catalyst , Peter Thiel , Adam D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey.

Position: Systems & Integration Engineering Experts Type: Contract Compensation: $100–$120/hour Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Apply hands-on systems , integration , reliability , and test engineering expertise to solve complex problems involving real physical products and hardware systems.
• Review and evaluate system requirements, interfaces, integration plans, verification strategies, test procedures, qualification approaches, reliability analyses, and manufacturing test workflows .
• Analyze system-level interactions across electrical, mechanical, firmware/software, thermal, controls, and manufacturing domains .
• Diagnose integration failures and identify root causes, interface issues, design deficiencies, reliability risks, manufacturing defects, and test coverage gaps .
• Develop or review technically rigorous engineering problems, reference solutions, test cases, verification criteria, failure analyses, and technical documentation .
• Provide clear technical feedback grounded in real-world hardware development, testing, and production experience .

Qualifications Must-Have

• 5+ years of professional systems , integration , reliability , or test engineering experience, including at least 3 years of recent hands‑on experience with hardware integration, test, validation, qualification, failure analysis, manufacturing test, or troubleshooting.
• Demonstrated experience as the responsible engineer for complex physical systems or hardware products.
• Deep technical expertise in at least one core domain: systems engineering and requirements/V&V hardware integration and test; reliability engineering and failure analysis; or manufacturing/production test engineering.
• Strong practical command of requirements traceability, interface management, verification and validation, test planning, FMEA/FMECA, fault isolation, root‑cause analysis, reliability, qualification, environmental testing, design-for-test, manufacturing yield, and system‑level failure modes.
• Extensive hands‑on experience integrating, instrumenting, testing, debugging, and characterizing physical hardware.

Preferred

• Experience working for a company that designs, builds, integrates, tests, and manufactures complex physical hardware systems.