AI Instructor – AI for engineers

YPAI; United States; Remote; USD 36,000 - 136,000; Full time

Job summary

YPAI Learn offers live online classes teaching engineers to use AI for failure analysis, design reviews and clause-by-clause specification checks. Classes are conducted in English, remotely, with a structured class kit and minute‑by‑minute plans.

Instructors guide engineers through AI‑assisted FMEAs, supplier submittal comparisons, and document sign‑offs, ensuring engineers retain responsibility for calculations and conclusions. Teaching volume varies by participation.

Qualifications

• Hands-on use of AI in engineering work, for example reports, specifications, design reviews or maintenance analysis.
• Experience mentoring graduate engineers, running technical training or leading design reviews.
• Patience with engineers who will test the AI on units and standards before they accept anything it says.

Responsibilities

• Teach live classes such as “Draft an FMEA with AI and challenge every failure mode it lists” (90 minutes) from the class kit.
• Teach live class “Compare a supplier submittal with the project specification using AI” (90 minutes) from the class kit.
• Demonstrate how to provide AI with a machine description and guide teams to rate severity, occurrence and detection.
• Walk learners through a made‑up submittal review and verify each point against the specification.
• Ensure engineers understand why calculations and sign-offs stay with them and how to handle AI errors.

Skills

Fluent English

Mentoring

Engineering trainer

Remote teaching

AI in engineering

Job description

Teach civil, mechanical, electrical and industrial engineers to run failure analysis and specification reviews with AI, checking units, clauses and sources themselves. You teach in English, remotely, from a class kit made ready for you, and you are paid for each class you teach.

What the work is for

YPAI Learn teaches AI for the work of each profession in live classes. Your classes take engineers from an invented machine to a failure mode and effects analysis, and from a supplier submittal to a clause-by-clause comparison with the project specification, and teach them to check units, standards and references.

The work

• Teach the live class “Draft an FMEA with AI and challenge every failure mode it lists”, 90 minutes, from the class kit.
• Teach the live class “Compare a supplier submittal with the project specification using AI”, 90 minutes, from the class kit.
• Show live how to give AI an invented pump or conveyor description and ask for failure modes, causes and controls, then rate severity, occurrence and detection as a team.
• Walk learners through a made-up submittal review: list where the product data departs from the specification clause by clause, and confirm each point in the documents.
• Help engineers when the AI gets units, standard clauses or editions wrong, and show why calculations and sign-off stay with the engineer.

What to expect

• Classes are live and online, taught in English to engineers in many countries, and you can also list in the application the other languages you teach in.
• The kit per class brings a minute-by-minute plan, slides, speaker notes, a demo on an invented machine or project, and a backup recording of the demo.
• From your own computer you teach remotely, over a stable connection with camera and microphone, with the class’s sample drawings and documents ready to share.
• Passing the instructor test for a class is the step before you first teach it.
• Before a teaching assignment starts, you sign an instructor agreement. It covers pay, confidentiality and how class material may be used.
• Each invitation states the class times and the price learners pay, and you see both before you accept.

What you bring

• An FMEA, design review, report or specification check you did with AI in engineering work, shown with invented project details.
• Experience mentoring graduate engineers, running technical training or leading design reviews.
• Patience with engineers who will test the AI on units and standards before they accept anything it says.

You need

• Hands‑on use of AI in engineering work, for example reports, specifications, design reviews or maintenance analysis.
• Experience as a civil, mechanical, electrical or industrial engineer, now or in the past.
• Fluent spoken English, the language the classes are taught in.
• 18 years or older.

Good to know

• If your engineering employer requires approval for outside work under your contract, arrange it before taking an assignment.
• Teaching volume depends on how many engineers sign up for the classes, and each invitation gives the expected time commitment.

Pay

$26–$99/hr. Rate shown is for the United States. This role is open in 4 countries, with local rates; pick your country on YPAI.

YPAI pays every two weeks for approved work via PayPal, Wise or bank transfer. Work is by invitation after your profile is reviewed.