Remote Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering Expert

Zekai; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 255,000; Full time

Job summary

Zekai is seeking a Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering Expert for a fully remote contractor role. You will design challenging technical problems from your domain, define what constitutes a correct solution, and ensure problems are unambiguous and well-founded.

You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams, review others’ problems for technical accuracy, and contribute to advancing quality assessment in manufacturing, process design, automation, and operations modeling.

Qualifications

• Master’s or PhD in manufacturing, industrial, or mechanical engineering.
• Principal, staff, or fellow-level experience at a major manufacturing organization, or a faculty appointment.
• Deep technical depth in at least one subdomain, with hands-on ownership of the work.
• Able to explain why an answer is correct clearly so 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Education

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

Job description

Zekai is seeking a Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering Expert for a fully remote contractor role. You will design challenging technical problems from your domain, define what constitutes a correct solution, and ensure problems are unambiguous and well-founded.

You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams, review others’ problems for technical accuracy, and contribute to advancing quality assessment in manufacturing, process design, automation, and operations modeling.