Mechanical Simulation Engineer

IXO Inc.; France; Remote; EUR 15,000 - 30,000; Part time

Job summary

IXO Inc. seeks a part-time, remote mechanical‑engineering specialist to translate physical systems into models, prepare geometries and runs, and perform structural and thermal analyses using Python-driven workflows.

You will automate preparation, sweeps, optimization and verification, ensuring results meet design constraints. Strong fundamentals and hands-on simulation experience are essential for this flexible, globally accessible role.

Qualifications

• Qualify with a mechanical-engineering MS/PhD, or with a mechanical-engineering BS and 1–2 years of relevant design, analysis, simulation, testing or R&D.
• Strong applied-mechanics and mechanical-engineering fundamentals.
• Experience developing analytical or simulation-based solutions.
• Practical Python proficiency and coding-agent experience.

Responsibilities

• Translate physical systems and design requirements into models.
• Prepare geometry, meshes, material properties, loads, contacts and constraints.
• Perform structural, thermal, dynamic, fatigue, buckling or vibration analysis.
• Automate preparation, simulation, sweeps, optimization and verification in Python.
• Check that results meet physical and design constraints.

Skills

Applied mechanics

Mechanical engineering fundamentals

Python proficiency

Simulation experience

Education

MS/PhD in Mechanical Engineering

BS in Mechanical Engineering with 1-2 years experience

Tools

CalculiX

Gmsh

Elmer

FEniCSx

CadQuery

OpenSCAD

OpenFOAM

Job description

Create and verify mechanical-engineering tasks through analytical models, simulation and Python.

What you will do

• Translate physical systems and design requirements into models.
• Prepare geometry, meshes, material properties, loads, contacts and constraints.
• Perform structural, thermal, dynamic, fatigue, buckling or vibration analysis.
• Automate preparation, simulation, sweeps, optimization and verification in Python.
• Check that results meet physical and design constraints.

Required background

• Qualify with a mechanical-engineering or closely related MS/PhD, or with a mechanical-engineering BS and at least one to two years of relevant design, analysis, simulation, testing or R&D.
• Strong applied-mechanics and mechanical-engineering fundamentals.
• Experience developing analytical or simulation-based solutions.
• Practical Python proficiency and coding-agent experience.

Preferred background

• Suitable tools include CalculiX, Gmsh, Elmer, FEniCSx, CadQuery, OpenSCAD and OpenFOAM; comparable programmatic tools are acceptable.
• Useful Python tools include NumPy, SciPy, SymPy, pandas, Matplotlib, Jupyter, meshing/CAD APIs and optimization libraries; no individual library is mandatory.

Location and eligibility

• Open worldwide.

Availability

• Remote and flexible, approximately 15 hours per week.

Pay and engagement

Per approved task; fee agreed before work

Payment requires work to meet the agreed acceptance criteria. Confirm any weekly submission requirement and the fee before starting.

Amounts are in USD. The applicable rate or fee and work requirements are agreed before you begin.