Contract Position : Pod lead - Mechanical Engineering

People Prime Worldwide; Hyderabad; Remote; INR 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

People Prime Worldwide seeks an experienced Pod Lead - Mechanical Engineering to guide a remote team of trainers developing AI-driven engineering tasks. You will oversee task quality, accuracy, and reproducibility across FEA/CFD workflows and multi-step problems, mentoring staff and enforcing standards.

The role emphasizes validation of simulations, numerical stability, and meaningful feedback, with focus on aerospace/mechanical applications, and remote coordination across a pan-India scope.

Qualifications

• Ph.D., postdoctoral experience, or equivalent advanced technical experience in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a closely related discipline.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a pod of technical trainers, ensuring consistent quality, productivity, and timely delivery of engineering tasks.
• Review engineering tasks end to end, including problem statements, geometry and mesh files, simulation inputs, material properties, reference solutions, and automated tests.
• Validate tasks involving finite-element analysis (FEA), computational fluid dynamics (CFD), thermodynamics, heat transfer, dynamics, robotics, flight simulation, propulsion, and orbital mechanics.
• Ensure tasks reflect realistic mechanical and aerospace engineering workflows and require meaningful multi-step technical reasoning.
• Verify engineering correctness across units, equilibrium, conservation laws, boundary conditions, mesh convergence, solver tolerances, reference frames, and numerical stability.
• Validate computational environments, simulation tools, solvers, and dependencies to ensure reproducible results.
• Review automated graders to ensure they evaluate meaningful engineering outputs such as stresses, deflections, natural frequencies, aerodynamic coefficients, thermal performance, orbital parameters, and safety margins.
• Identify technical inaccuracies, unrealistic assumptions, incorrect tolerances, and opportunities to bypass engineering calculations or simulations.
• Provide clear, actionable technical feedback, track revisions, and ensure quality issues are resolved before task approval.
• Onboard trainers, allocate work, monitor quality and throughput, escal…

Skills

Python

C/C++

Fortran

Julia

MATLAB/Octave

Linux

FEA

CFD

Dynamics

Flight simulation

Thermal modeling

Astrodynamics

GNC

Propulsion modeling

OpenFOAM

Docker

Git

CI/CD

Automated testing

Education

Ph.D./Postdoc in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering

Tools

OpenFOAM

SU2

Code_Aster

Gmsh

FreeCAD

Job description

Experience

Experience: 5 - 20 years

Max Experience: 20

Job Title: Pod lead - Mechanical Engineering

Location: Pan India

Experience: 5+ yrs.

Employment Type: Contract to hire

Work Mode: Remote

Notice Period: - Immediate joiners

Roles & Responsibilities

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering expert to lead a team of technical trainers developing realistic, terminal-based engineering tasks for a frontier AI training and evaluation initiative.

In this role, you will oversee a pod of approximately 5–10 trainers, review engineering tasks for technical accuracy, reproducibility, and evaluation quality, and ensure that tasks reflect authentic mechanical and aerospace engineering workflows. You will also mentor trainers, maintain quality standards, and drive consistent task delivery.

What You'll Do

Lead and mentor a pod of technical trainers, ensuring consistent quality, productivity, and timely delivery of engineering tasks.

Review engineering tasks end to end, including problem statements, geometry and mesh files, simulation inputs, material properties, reference solutions, and automated tests.

Validate tasks involving finite-element analysis (FEA), computational fluid dynamics (CFD), thermodynamics, heat transfer, dynamics, robotics, flight simulation, propulsion, and orbital mechanics.

Ensure tasks reflect realistic mechanical and aerospace engineering workflows and require meaningful multi-step technical reasoning.

Verify engineering correctness across units, equilibrium, conservation laws, boundary conditions, mesh convergence, solver tolerances, reference frames, and numerical stability.

Validate computational environments, simulation tools, solvers, and dependencies to ensure reproducible results.

Review automated graders to ensure they evaluate meaningful engineering outputs such as stresses, deflections, natural frequencies, aerodynamic coefficients, thermal performance, orbital parameters, and safety margins.

Identify technical inaccuracies, unrealistic assumptions, incorrect tolerances, and opportunities to bypass engineering calculations or simulations.

Provide clear, actionable technical feedback, track revisions, and ensure quality issues are resolved before task approval.

Onboard trainers, allocate work, monitor quality and throughput, escal…

What We're Looking For

Ph.D., postdoctoral experience, or equivalent advanced technical experience in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a closely related discipline.

Strong programming skills in Python, C/C++, Fortran, Julia, or MATLAB/Octave, with proficiency in Linux environments.

Hands-on expertise in at least one major area: FEA, CFD, dynamics, flight simulation, thermal modeling, astrodynamics, guidance, navigation and control (GNC), or propulsion modeling.

Strong understanding of engineering simulation, numerical methods, computational modeling, and technical validation.

Experience reviewing complex technical work, engineering simulations, computational models, or research outputs.

Ability to evaluate engineering assumptions, numerical accuracy, solver convergence, and the reliability of computational results.

Strong analytical judgment with the ability to identify technical errors, edge cases, and flawed engineering assumptions.

Experience mentoring, reviewing, or leading small technical teams.

Excellent written communication skills for providing precise technical feedback and documenting quality standards.

Nice To Have

Experience with engineering simulation and computational tools such as OpenFOAM, SU2, CalculiX, Code_Aster, FEniCS, Elmer, Gmsh, FreeCAD, CadQuery, MuJoCo, ROS, XFOIL, AVL, OpenVSP, JSBSim, OpenMDAO, pyCycle, poliastro, Orekit, GMAT, or SPICE.

Familiarity with commercial engineering software such as ANSYS, Abaqus, COMSOL, or NASTRAN, including reproducing workflows using open-source tools.

Experience with state estimation, trajectory optimization, topology optimization, aeroelastic analysis, or multidisciplinary design optimization.

Familiarity with Docker, Git, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing.

Experience developing or evaluating AI coding agents, terminal-based agents, or LLM-generated engineering solutions.

Industry or agency experience in automotive, energy, manufacturing, robotics, aircraft, launch vehicles, satellites, or UAVs.

Prior experience in AI training, technical quality control, benchmark development, or evaluation programs.