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# Systems Engineer - Hardware Integration

- **Company:** Mercor, Inc.
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $208,000.0 - $249,600.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Systems Engineering, Code Coverage, Software Debugging, Firmware, Failure Mode Effects Analysis, Hardware Design, Reliability Engineering, Requirements Traceability, Software Requirements Analysis, Verification and Validation (Software), Systems Integration, Reliability of Systems
- **Published:** October 1, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/16_3d3c6dc4

## About the Role

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.

Preferred

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

## 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.


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