Systems & Integration Engineering Experts

**Mercor is seeking experienced Systems & Integration Engineers** to support an advanced engineering and AI research initiative with a leading technology organization. We are looking for deeply hands-on engineers who have integrated, tested, validated, debugged, qualified, or analyzed complex real-world hardware and electromechanical systems in production environments.

Relevant backgrounds include:

• **Systems Engineering**
• **Integration & Test Engineering**
• **Reliability / Failure Analysis Engineering**
• **Manufacturing Test Engineering**

This role is particularly well suited for engineers who have worked directly on complex physical products and can bring practical engineering judgment to system integration, verification and validation, reliability, root-cause analysis, manufacturing test, and cross-functional hardware troubleshooting.

### Key Responsibilities

• Apply hands-on systems, integration, reliability, and test engineering expertise to technically 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**.
• Assess the technical correctness and practical feasibility of engineering solutions, test strategies, troubleshooting approaches, and system-level decisions.
• 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.
• Draw on practical experience with **prototype integration, bring-up, verification and validation, qualification, environmental testing, reliability testing, production test, and field failure investigation**.
• Provide clear technical feedback grounded in real-world hardware development, testing, and production experience.

### You’re a Strong Fit If You Have

• **5+ years of professional systems, integration, reliability, or test engineering experience**, including at least **3 years of recent, actively hands-on experience** with hardware integration, test, validation, qualification, failure analysis, manufacturing test, or troubleshooting—not solely program or people management.
• Demonstrated experience as the **responsible engineer for complex physical systems or hardware products**, owning meaningful portions of the lifecycle from requirements and interface definition through integration, verification, qualification, production readiness, and field support.
• 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**, as applicable to the candidate's specialization.
• Extensive hands-on experience **integrating, instrumenting, testing, debugging, and characterizing physical hardware**, using relevant laboratory equipment, data-acquisition systems, automated test infrastructure, environmental test equipment, diagnostic tools, and structured failure-analysis methodologies.
• Proven experience developing and validating hardware in **real-world product or manufacturing environments**, ideally across aerospace/defense, space, automotive/EV,