Mechanical Engineering Expert

Responsibilities

• Solve and validate mechanical-engineering problems involving design, analysis, simulation, testing, or research and development.
• Translate physical systems and engineering requirements into analytical or computational models.
• Create or modify geometry, meshes, materials, loads, contacts, constraints, and solver inputs.
• Perform structural, thermal, dynamic, fatigue, buckling, vibration, and related engineering analyses.
• Use Python to automate model preparation, simulations, parameter sweeps, optimization, postprocessing, and verification.
• Analyze stress, strain, displacement, temperature, heat flow, deformation, frequency response, safety factors, and other relevant engineering outputs.
• Compare simulation results with hand calculations, experimental data, reference cases, or expected physical behavior.
• Diagnose invalid geometry, mesh problems, convergence failures, incorrect boundary conditions, and unrealistic simulation outputs.
• Review AI-generated engineering solutions and identify reasoning errors, incorrect assumptions, and violations of physical constraints.
• Develop clear, reproducible reference solutions and objective validation checks.
• Iteratively improve engineering designs for performance, mass, strength, stiffness, thermal behavior, reliability, or manufacturability.

Skills

Requirements

• MS or PhD in Mechanical Engineering or a closely related engineering discipline, or a BS in Mechanical Engineering with at least 1–2 years of relevant professional experience.
• Strong understanding of applied mechanics and core mechanical-engineering principles.
• Experience developing analytical, computational, or simulation-based engineering solutions.
• Practical proficiency with Python.
• Experience with at least one engineering, geometry, meshing, or simulation tool accessible through a CLI, scripting interface, configuration files, or programmatic API.
• Ability to select and justify loads, boundary conditions, material properties, physical assumptions, and model fidelity.
• Ability to troubleshoot simulations and determine whether results are physically reasonable.
• Ability to clearly explain engineering decisions, limitations, assumptions, and trade-offs.
• Experience limited exclusively to graphical engineering interfaces is not sufficient.
• Ability to commit approximately 15 hours per week.

Benefits

• Global, fully remote contractor opportunity.
• Compensation of $80–$130 per hour based on qualifying output.
• Flexible schedule of approximately 15 hours per week.
• Ability to choose working hours and days, including weekends if desired.
• Opportunity to work on advanced structural, thermal, mechanical, and multiphysics engineering problems.
• Opportunity to apply Python and programmatic engineering tools to next-generation AI training.
• Selected experts may begin their first task within 24–48 hours after completing onboarding.