Civil Design Engineer

DataAnnotation; United States; Remote; USD 142,000 - 202,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Weekly payouts

Flexible hours

Remote work

Job summary

DataAnnotation is seeking an experienced Civil Design Engineer to craft challenging, realistic tasks for AI models. You’ll design and simulate real-world systems, then test AI performance and document where improvements are needed.

You will write the correct solutions and grading rubrics, drawing on your Civil Engineering expertise. This role is remote, offered as an independent contractor with flexible hours and weekly payouts.

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in civil engineering or a closely related field.
• Comfortable working with simulation tools.
• Able to write clear solutions and grading rubrics in fluent written English.
• Only applicants based in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, or the United States will be considered for this role.

Responsibilities

• Design challenging, realistic civil engineering tasks for AI agents, drawn from your own expertise, including tasks that use custom tool environments.
• Design and simulate a real-world physical object or system end to end, and use simulation to check your work.
• Test AI models against your task and document where they fail.
• Write the correct solution and the grading rubric that defines what good looks like.

Skills

Fluent written English

Civil/Structural eng

Independent contractor

Education

Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering

Tools

Simulation tools

Design & analysis tools

Job description

Pay: up to $125+ /hour (depends on task difficulty and specialization)

Location: Remote · Type: Independent contractor · Hours: Flexible hours · Payouts: Weekly

Overview

We’re looking for an experienced Civil Design Engineer to help train AI models. You’ll design challenging, realistic engineering tasks from your own professional expertise, check them with simulation, and show exactly where AI models fall short.

This is a new area for our company, focused on building hard, realistic engineering tasks for AI to attempt. Your expertise and written solutions become the signal that shapes the next generation of AI.

What you’ll actually do

• Design challenging, realistic civil engineering tasks for AI agents, drawn from your own expertise, including tasks that use custom tool environments.
• Design and simulate a real-world physical object or system end to end, and use simulation to check your work.
• Test AI models against your task and document where they fail.
• Write the correct solution and the grading rubric that defines what good looks like.

Roles this fits

Common backgrounds: Civil Design Engineer, Structural Engineer, Design Engineer.

What we look for

• A bachelor’s degree or higher in civil engineering or a closely related field.
• Comfortable working with simulation tools.
• Able to write clear solutions and grading rubrics in fluent written English.
• Only applicants based in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, or the United States will be considered for this role.

Compensation

Up to $125+/hr depending on task difficulty and specialization. Many contributors add $100k–$200k a year; some make it their full-time income.

About DataAnnotation

DataAnnotation is where 1M+ experts train the world’s leading AI models. Hundreds of millions paid to contributors to date, and the average contributor stays 5+ years. Flexible, remote, and always project-available.