Aerospace & Defense Program Specialist

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 DAngelo Larry Summers and Jack Dorsey.

Position: Manufacturing - Aerospace & Defense Expert
Type: Contract
Compensation: $1150$1450 per completed task
Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Build a realistic digital workspace centered on the Drive folders you use day-to-day. Include program review decks CDRLs / SOWs engineering change proposals V&V plans supplier qualification packages risk registers and email threads.
• Design multi-step tasks grounded in your real workflows. Require navigating multiple apps files and stakeholders to challenge frontier AI agents.
• 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 directly informs 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 aerospace design supply-chain management quality assurance or systems engineering.
• 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

• Task Completion Pay: Competitive and based on task quality.
• Performance Bonus: Weekly bonus incentive for top performers.
• Hourly Opportunity: Transition to hourly compensation based on sustained quality and throughput.

Application Process (Takes 2030 mins to complete)

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

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