Manufacturing Expert - Fortune 500

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 D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey .

Position: Manufacturing & Consumer Goods Expert

• Type: Contract
• Compensation: $45--$65/hour
• Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Build a realistic digital workspace centered on the Drive folders you use daily. Include production reports, brand P&L models, S&OP decks, supplier scorecards, BOMs, SOPs, and email threads. Represent enterprise apps like SAP S/4HANA, Siemens Opcenter, and Power BI.
• Design multi-step tasks grounded in real workflows. Require navigation of multiple apps, files, and stakeholders to meaningfully challenge frontier AI agents.
• Collaborate with other manufacturing and CPG 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 manufacturing-domain 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 or comparable large enterprise (e.g., P&G, Unilever, PepsiCo, Nestlé, 3M, Kimberly-Clark, or a Tier-1 contract manufacturer).
• Background in areas such as plant operations, production management, or operations engineering.
• Day-to-day use of enterprise tools like SAP S/4HANA, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Siemens Opcenter, Rockwell FactoryTalk, and Tableau/Power BI.
• Strong analytical thinking and writing. Able to translate enterprise workflows into structured task specs.

Preferred

• Certifications: PMP, Six Sigma Black/Green Belt, CPIM, CSCP.

Compensation & Legal

• This project is expected to begin on an effective hourly rate. It will transition to a model where experts are compensated based on throughput of quality work rather than a flat accruing hourly rate.

Application Process (Takes 20--30 mins to complete)

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

Resources & Support

• For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome
• For any help or support, reach out to: [email protected]

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