Civil & Structural Engineering QA Lead

OpenTrain AI, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenTrain AI, Inc. is seeking a remote contractor to lead quality review of technical tasks used to evaluate AI systems across civil and structural engineering domains.

You will review end-to-end engineering work, mentor trainers, assign work, monitor revisions, and resolve blockers. Requires Ph.D. or equivalent, strong programming in Python/C++/Julia/MATLAB, and Linux familiarity. This four-week engagement requires 20+ hours per week and daily overlap with Pacific Time.

Qualifications

• A Ph.D., postdoctoral experience, or equivalent advanced technical experience in civil engineering, structural engineering, geotechnical engineering, or a closely related field.
• Strong experience with Python, C/C++, Julia, Fortran, or MATLAB/Octave, plus Linux proficiency.

Responsibilities

• Review problem statements, engineering models, load cases, simulation data, computational environments, reference solutions, and automated tests.
• Check units, equilibrium, boundary conditions, load combinations, design codes, numerical stability, convergence, safety factors, and engineering assumptions.
• Validate solvers, dependencies, simulation results, and automated graders against forces, deflections, drifts, settlements, flow rates, factors of safety, and structural performance.
• Find technical errors, incorrect tolerances, edge cases, and ways a task could bypass meaningful engineering analysis.
• Review work involving nonlinear time-history analysis, performance-based design, reliability analysis, structural health monitoring, and related methods when applicable.

Skills

Python

C/C++

Julia

Fortran

MATLAB/Octave

Linux

Engineering review

Mentoring

Education

Ph.D. in civil/structural/geotechnical engineering

Postdoctoral experience

Equivalent advanced technical experience

Tools

OpenSees

Code_Aster

CalculiX

FEniCS

Gmsh

PyNite

EPANET

SWMM

HEC-RAS

MODFLOW

SUMO

QGIS

GDAL

SAP2000

ETABS

Abaqus

PLAXIS

STAAD.Pro

Job description

OpenTrain AI, Inc. is seeking a remote contractor to lead quality review of technical tasks used to evaluate AI systems across civil and structural engineering domains.

You will review end-to-end engineering work, mentor trainers, assign work, monitor revisions, and resolve blockers. Requires Ph.D. or equivalent, strong programming in Python/C++/Julia/MATLAB, and Linux familiarity. This four-week engagement requires 20+ hours per week and daily overlap with Pacific Time.