Mechanical Engineering Expert
Quick facts
- Pay
- $80–150 / hour
- Type
- Part-time
- Location
- Global, fully remote
- Hours
- 15+ hours / week
- Background
- PhD
- Skills
- Engineering, Python
- Platform
- Micro1 — 260 open jobs
- Typical pay at Micro1
- $25–150/hour · median $90 (17 jobs on our site)
- Apply
- Free to apply — never pay to get AI training work
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Required Skills
Python
Mechanical Engineering
About micro1
micro1 is the leading AI data lab for training frontier models and evaluating AI agents. Experts contribute their diverse subject matter knowledge across domains such as finance, healthcare, STEM engineering, and more. micro1 transforms that real-world expertise into high-quality training data, evaluations, and feedback loops that improve how AI systems learn, reason, and perform.
Our platform identifies and vets top talent through an AI recruiter, enabling high-quality expert contributions at scale. We aim to enable 1 billion people to do meaningful work by applying their expertise to AI. As our global expert network grows, micro1 is building the human intelligence layer for frontier AI.
Mechanical Engineering Expert
Pay: $80–$150/hour
Location: Global, fully remote
Job Type: Contractor (~15 hours per week)
Schedule: Flexible—you choose the hours and days you work, including weekends if desired
We are looking for a highly skilled Mechanical Engineering Expert to contribute to an AI training project involving engineering design, physical modeling, simulation, technical problem-solving, and Python.
The work involves creating, solving, reviewing, and validating engineering tasks across structural, thermal, mechanical, and multiphysics domains. A representative task may require translating physical requirements into a computational model, generating the required geometry or mesh, applying materials and boundary conditions, running an engineering simulation, and determining whether the resulting artifact and analysis satisfy the applicable physical and design constraints.
This is a very coding heavy role. Candidates but have experience using coding agents with python in their workflow.
What You’ll Work On
Solve and validate mechanical-engineering problems involving design, analysis, simulation, testing, or R&D.
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, or related analyses.
Use Python to automate model preparation, simulation, parameter sweeps, optimization, postprocessing, and verification.
Required Qualifications
An MS or PhD in Mechanical Engineering or a closely related engineering discipline; or
A BS in Mechanical Engineering plus at least 1–2 years of relevant professional experience in mechanical design, analysis, simulation, testing, or R&D.
Strong understanding of applied mechanics and mechanical-engineering fundamentals.
Experience developing analytical, computational, or simulation-based engineering solutions.
Practical proficiency with
Python and coding agents.
Relevant tools may include CalculiX, Gmsh, Elmer, FEniCSx, CadQuery, OpenSCAD, OpenFOAM, or similar programmatic engineering software. Experience with an equivalent CLI-accessible tool is acceptable.
Relevant Python tools may include NumPy, SciPy, SymPy, pandas, Matplotlib, Jupyter, CAD or meshing APIs, finite-element libraries, optimization packages, or domain-specific scientific tools. No single library is mandatory.
Process
Apply to the role and complete the screening questions.
Complete an AI interview of approximately 30 minutes.
Complete the hiring manager review.
Compensation Structure
Compensation is output-based. Experts are paid per task that meets the project specifications. The time required to complete each task may vary depending on the expert’s experience and workflow.
Minimum submission requirements apply.
Start Timeline & Availability
We typically fill roles within 48 hours and are looking for experts who are ready to begin immediately. If selected, you will be expected to start your first task within 24–48 hours of completing onboarding.
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micro1 recruits engineers and domain experts for AI labs using its AI interviewer. Once vetted, contractors work on human-data projects such as writing and checking model outputs or building coding evaluations.