Mechanical Engineering Expert (MSc. or PhD)
Quick facts
- Pay
- $60–120 / hour
- Type
- Part-time
- Location
- Global, fully remote
- Hours
- 15+ hours / week
- Background
- PhD
- Skills
- Engineering, Python
- Platform
- Micro1 — 261 open jobs
- Typical pay at Micro1
- $25–150/hour · median $90 (27 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 a data lab that helps AI labs & Enterprises train foundational models and agents. We provide frontier evaluations and reinforcement learning environments to improve LLM capabilities, as well as contextual evaluations to monitor and improve AI agents in enterprise settings.
Our AI recruiting agent sources and vets domain experts for our data platform that enables rapid production of high-quality training data. Our research spans high-value, specialized domains (legal, medical, finance, coding, etc.), where expert-level data is the hardest to produce and most valuable for advanced model performance. Our pipeline performance system ensures both quality and velocity.
Mechanical Engineering Expert (MSc. or PhD)
Pay: $60–$120/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 must have experience using coding agents 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.
Required Qualifications
An MS or PhD in Mechanical Engineering or a closely related engineering discipline; or
Strong understanding of applied mechanics and mechanical-engineering fundamentals.
Experience developing analytical, computational, or simulation-based engineering solutions.
Practical proficiency with
coding agents.
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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About Micro1
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.