Process & Operations Engineering Expert

What you’ll do

Mercor is partnering with leading AI labs to advance frontier agent evaluations in process and operations engineering. As a Process & Operations Engineering Expert, you’ll build long-horizon ops-engineering tasks that mirror the work you already do, each paired with a deterministic rubric that grades agent performance against verifiable ground truth. Tasks need to have checkable answers; no open-ended essays, no subjective judgment calls.

Expect to build scenarios across:

• Process documentation: process flow diagrams and SOPs with required steps and control points
• Analysis: yield and quality analyses with ground-truth defect rates, root-cause investigations with a documented correct cause
• FMEA and improvement work: FMEAs against a failure-mode checklist, Six Sigma writeups with verifiable statistical outputs

These scenarios will be challenging and take long sessions of focus.

Who we’re looking for

• BS or MS in Industrial, Manufacturing, or Mechanical Engineering; 3+ years in process, operations, or manufacturing engineering
• Expertise in one or more of the following: Lean, Six Sigma (Green or Black Belt), SPC, FMEA, root cause methodology (5 Whys, fishbone, 8D)
• Comfortable reading and producing ops-engineering artifacts: process flows, SOPs, FMEAs, project charters, kaizen reports
• Clear written communication; can articulate reasoning step by step and encode it into deterministic rubrics

Compensation

$75–$100/hr depending on domain depth and prior experience. Strong contributors are promoted based on task quality and throughput.