[Hiring] Systems Engineer - Hardware Integration @Mercor

Role Description

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.

Requirements

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

Benefits

• Compensation: $100–$120/hour
• Location: Remote

Application Process

• Upload resume
• AI interview based on your resume
• Submit form

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