Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering Expert

Micro1; India; Remote; INR 10,348,000 - 23,930,000; Part time

Job summary

Cashback24x7 is seeking a Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering Expert as a remote contractor. The role focuses on creating challenging technical problems, validating solutions, and establishing clear evaluation criteria across design, production, quality, automation, and supply chain domains.

You will define what makes an answer correct, review contributions for technical soundness, and ensure problems are unambiguous and fully gradable.

Qualifications

• Master’s or PhD in manufacturing, industrial, or mechanical engineering, or equivalent faculty appointment.
• Principal-level or senior experience at a major manufacturing organization.
• Deep technical depth in at least one subdomain with hands-on ownership.

Responsibilities

• Design difficult technical problems from your own area — process design, production systems, quality engineering, automation, and supply chain.
• Provide the correct solution and walk through the reasoning that gets there.
• Define objective criteria for correctness for reproducibility.
• Review problems built by others for technical accuracy and soundness.
• Flag ambiguous or ungradable problems.

Skills

Principal-level experience

Faculty appointment experience

Education

Master’s or PhD in manufacturing, industrial, or mechanical engineering

Job description

Role Title: Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering Expert

Role Type: Contractor

Location: Remote

Location: Fully remote

Opportunity Snapshot

Pay: $80- $185/hour

Commitment: Flexible — fits alongside your current role

You’ll need:

• Master’s or PhD in manufacturing, industrial, or mechanical engineering, plus principal-level industry experience or a faculty appointment

Your tasks:

Build challenging technical problems from your own domain and define what makes an answer correct.

You’ll be working on the problems where the textbook answer isn’t enough, where the right approach depends on reading the constraints correctly, where a plausible-looking solution is quietly wrong. You’ll build those problems, provide the correct analysis, and define what separates a right answer from one that only looks right.

What you’ll do:

• Design difficult technical problems from your own area — process design, production systems, quality engineering, automation, supply chain and operations modeling — with realistic constraints and supporting data.
• Provide the correct solution and walk through the reasoning that gets there.
• Define objective criteria for correctness, so another expert reviewing the work would reach the same verdict.
• Review problems built by other contributors for technical accuracy and soundness of method.
• Flag problems that turn out to be ambiguous or ungradable rather than submitting them.

We’re looking for:

• Master’s or PhD in manufacturing, industrial, mechanical engineering, or a closely related field.
• Principal, staff, or fellow-level experience at a major manufacturing organization, or a faculty appointment at a leading university.
• Deep technical depth in at least one subdomain, with hands‑on ownership of the work.
• Able to explain why an answer is correct clearly enough that another engineer could verify it.
• Publications, patents, or a record of technical leadership is a strong plus.
• AI or LLM evaluation experience is a plus, but not required.