Remote Mechanical AI Trainer for Real-World Engineering

MissionHires; United States; Remote; USD 55,000 - 172,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible scheduling

Fully remote contract work

Pay via PayPal

Access to Claude and ChatGPT

Job summary

MissionHires is seeking a skilled mechanical engineer to design and evaluate advanced AI-driven tasks. This remote, contract-based role focuses on building realistic mechanical engineering scenarios, validating AI outputs, and detailing precise grading rubrics.

Strong CAD proficiency and hands-on experience are required. You will work independently, in a flexible schedule with a minimum commitment of 10 hours per week, and contribute to frontier AI system improvements using real engineering

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional mechanical engineering experience preferred; candidates with less experience may be considered when they have substantial practical hands-on work.
• In-progress Bachelor's degree or higher in mechanical engineering or a related field.
• Hands-on individual-contributor experience in mechanical engineering, currently or recently, rather than solely management experience.
• Depth in at least one area: mechanical design and CAD; structures and materials; thermal and fluids; dynamics and controls; or manufacturing.
• Strong mechanical engineering fundamentals, including mechanics of materials, dynamics, thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluid mechanics, and manufacturing processes.
• Fluency with tools relevant to the specialty, such as CAD software including SolidWorks, Fusion 360, Onshape, Creo, NX, CATIA, or Inventor; FEA or CFD tools; or MATLAB or Python for engineering analysis.
• Ability to create realistic scenarios from real-world workflows and assess whether AI systems can complete the work correctly.
• Full professional or native-level written and spoken English, with the ability to clearly explain complex technical reasoning and why an answer is incorrect.

Responsibilities

• Design challenging, realistic mechanical engineering tasks based on professional practice.
• Run tasks through frontier AI models and evaluate calculations, design reviews, analyses, and reports against professional engineering standards.
• Compare model outputs generated from identical prompts and documents, determine stronger output, and document strengths and weaknesses.
• Write closed-ended engineering problems with worked solutions, acceptance criteria, and detailed grading rubrics.
• Identify and document concrete errors, including boundary condition issues, unit errors, misinterpretations, and tolerance problems.
• Contribute expertise across mechanical design, analysis, manufacturing, and testing, and review tasks created by other engineers.
• Build professional task scenarios ranging from compact file sets to larger multi-day cases.
• Incorporate expert feedback and revise task proposals, files, rubrics, and evaluations as needed.

Skills

Mechanical design

CAD software

English fluency

Attention to detail

Independent work

AI/LLM familiarity

Education

Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering

Tools

SolidWorks

Fusion 360

Onshape

Creo

MATLAB

Python

Job description

MissionHires is seeking a skilled mechanical engineer to design and evaluate advanced AI-driven tasks. This remote, contract-based role focuses on building realistic mechanical engineering scenarios, validating AI outputs, and detailing precise grading rubrics.

Strong CAD proficiency and hands-on experience are required. You will work independently, in a flexible schedule with a minimum commitment of 10 hours per week, and contribute to frontier AI system improvements using real engineering