What the work is
Role Overview
Contributors develop tasks within their specialties, including CAD and assemblies, structural or thermal analysis, fluid mechanics, and manufacturing engineering. CAD evaluation, finite-element analysis, and computational fluid dynamics are distinct workflows; the modeling and verification method should fit the task.
Key Responsibilities
- Create realistic engineering problems with native geometry, assemblies, materials, loads, boundary conditions, and design requirements.
- Build and debug analysis models in relevant areas such as stress and deformation, thermal behavior, vibration, or fluid flow. For simulation tasks, assess mesh quality, convergence, sensitivity, and physical consistency.
- Produce reference solutions and reproducible CAD, FEA, or CFD workflows using tools appropriate to the problem, such as SolidWorks, FreeCAD, CATIA, ANSYS, CalculiX, OpenFOAM, or equivalents.
- Define checks for dimensions, assembly relationships, mass properties, manufacturability, stress, displacement, temperature, pressure drop, or other relevant outputs. Apply numerical checks, artifact inspection, and engineering judgment where each is appropriate.
- Package native files, solver settings, scripts, and results; document assumptions and limitations so another engineer can reproduce the work.
- Validate reference outcomes and incorrect cases, review AI-generated artifacts, and diagnose whether failures arise from the design, model setup, numerical method, or verification logic.
- Apply relevant standards and methods, including ASME or ISO, GD&T, DFM/DFA, and reliability analysis.
Who gets hired
- 5+ years of professional mechanical engineering experience, with direct ownership of product designs, engineering analysis, manufacturing processes, or validation.
- Recent hands-on depth in one or more relevant CAD, FEA, CFD, or thermal-analysis workflows. Expertise across all specialties or all named packages is not required.
- Ability to automate analysis or inspect results using Python, MATLAB, shell scripts, or comparable tools, with coding-agent assistance where useful.
- Strong judgment about model fidelity, material behavior, boundary conditions, numerical convergence, and physical plausibility.
- Clear technical communication and a disciplined approach to reproducible engineering work.
- A professional engineering credential and prior test automation, design documentation, or engineering-training experience are a plus.
Compensation
- Writers: $70–$80/hour.
- Reviewers: $90/hour.
The platform posted this on 5 Nov 2026.