Manufacturing - Aerospace & Defense Expert

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.

Role Responsibilities

• Build a realistic digital workspace centered on the Drive folders you use daily. Include program review decks, CDRLs / SOWs, engineering change proposals, and supplier qualification packages.
• Design multi-step tasks based on real workflows. These tasks should challenge frontier AI agents by requiring navigation of multiple apps, files, and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with other aerospace and defense experts to design the environment, shape task scope, and review scenarios for realism and rigor.
• Work asynchronously with research teams to refine task designs and evaluation criteria for A&D agent benchmarks.
• Contribute to frontier AI research and benchmarking. Your work will inform how leading labs train and evaluate the next generation of AI systems.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• 3+ years of full-time experience at a Fortune 500 A&D prime, major Tier-1 supplier, or federally-funded R&D center.
• Background in program/project management on DoD or NASA contracts, aerospace design or manufacturing engineering, supply-chain management, or quality and mission assurance.
• US Person status required for most A&D work.
• Day-to-day use of ANSYS Fluent / STAR-CCM+, Siemens Opcenter or Rockwell FactoryTalk, and Jira / Confluence.
• Strong analytical thinking and writing skills.

Compensation & Legal

• Expected to begin on an effective hourly rate. Transition to compensation based on throughput of quality work rather than a flat accruing hourly rate.