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# Superconducting Engineer - AI Trainer

- **Company:** Mercor, Inc.
- **Location:** Austin, TX, United States (Remote available)
- **Salary:** $101,000.0 - $138,600.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Squid (Proxy Server)
- **Published:** August 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/jobad/us0f90286e62c20592b6fb34a3ee9e6fcf

## About the Role

* Hands-on experimental experience with one or more classes of superconducting materials, including cuprate/high-temperature superconductors, iron-based superconductors, conventional superconductors, MgB , REBCO/YBCO systems, or emerging superconducting materials.
 * Experience with superconducting material synthesis or processing, such as solid-state synthesis, single-crystal growth, powder processing, thin-film deposition, or related techniques.
 * Strong experience characterising superconducting properties through electrical resistivity/transport, magnetotransport, magnetic susceptibility, SQUID/VSM magnetometry, critical current measurements, critical field measurements, or cryogenic experiments.
 * Strong understanding of superconducting phenomena, including Tc, Jc, critical magnetic fields, Meissner effect, flux pinning, vortex dynamics, and the relationship between material structure and superconducting performance.
 * An advanced degree (PhD/MS) or equivalent hands-on research experience in materials science, condensed matter physics, applied physics, chemistry, electrical engineering, or a closely related field.
 * Clear written English and the ability to explain complex experimental results and technical reasoning concisely.

Preferred

 * Experience with superconducting thin films, heterostructures, or device fabrication using techniques such as PLD, MBE/epitaxy, sputtering, lithography, etching, or clean-room micro/nanofabrication.
 * Experience with applied superconductors or superconducting devices, such as superconducting wires and tapes, coated conductors, Josephson junctions, SQUIDs, superconducting circuits, resonators, detectors, or superconducting quantum devices.

## Description

* Contribute deep domain expertise across superconducting material synthesis, characterisation, experimental superconductivity, fabrication, and device physics to build high-quality training and evaluation data.
 * Review and evaluate AI-generated scientific reasoning related to superconducting materials and phenomena, identifying experimental or theoretical errors and improving technical accuracy.
 * Design and solve challenging, expert-level problems involving critical temperature (Tc), critical current density (Jc), critical magnetic fields, magnetic susceptibility, electrical transport, flux pinning, vortex behaviour, and structure-property relationships.
 * Analyse and reason about experimental results from techniques such as XRD, SEM/TEM, SQUID/VSM magnetometry, resistivity and magnetotransport measurements, spectroscopy, and cryogenic measurements.
 * Rate and rank model outputs against defined scientific criteria, providing clear written reasoning grounded in experimental superconductivity.
 * Structure technical knowledge - including synthesis procedures, processing parameters, phase and structural data, transport measurements, magnetic measurements, and device data - into well-organised, model-ready data., An EIT is someone has a degree in civil engineering or related field. They have passed or are pursuing their FE and PE certification. This Jobot Job is hosted by: Brian Perkins …
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