Remote Mechanical Engineer for AI Simulation & Analysis

YO AI Labs; Maryland; Remote; USD 83,000 - 152,000; Full time

Job summary

YO AI Labs is seeking a Mechanical Engineering Expert to support an AI training project with engineering design, modeling, and Python automation. You will solve and validate structural, thermal, and multiphysics tasks, review AI-derived solutions, and develop reproducible references.

This role is global and fully remote, ~15 hours/week, with flexible scheduling. Required candidates have strong fundamentals in mechanical engineering, experience with computational tools, and the ability to justify

Qualifications

• MS/PhD in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline is preferred.
• BS in Mechanical Engineering with 1–2+ years of relevant professional experience acceptable.
• Strong fundamentals in mechanics and simulation.
• Practical Python and programmatic engineering-tool experience.
• Ability to justify materials, loads, BCs, and model fidelity.
• Ability to validate results and clearly explain engineering decisions and trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Solve and validate mechanical engineering problems involving design, analysis, simulation, and testing.
• Translate engineering requirements into analytical and computational models.
• Create and modify geometry, meshes, materials, loads, constraints, and solver inputs.
• Perform structural, thermal, dynamic, fatigue, buckling, and vibration analyses.
• Use Python to automate simulations, parameter sweeps, optimization, and post-processing.
• Analyze stress, strain, displacement, temperature, deformation, frequency response, and safety factors.
• Diagnose geometry, mesh, convergence, boundary-condition, and modeling issues.
• Compare simulation results with calculations, experiments, and expected physical behavior.
• Review AI-generated engineering solutions and develop reproducible reference solutions.

Skills

Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mech

Engineering Design & Analysis

Structural & Thermal Analysis

Computational Modeling & Simulation

Python

CAD, Meshing & Simulation

Numerical Validation & Troubleshooting

Technical Problem-Solving

Education

MS/PhD in Mechanical Engineering

BS in Mechanical Engineering with 1–2+ years experience

Tools

CalculiX

Gmsh

Elmer

FEniCSx

CadQuery

OpenSCAD

OpenFOAM

NumPy

SciPy

SymPy

pandas

Matplotlib

Jupyter

Job description

YO AI Labs is seeking a Mechanical Engineering Expert to support an AI training project with engineering design, modeling, and Python automation. You will solve and validate structural, thermal, and multiphysics tasks, review AI-derived solutions, and develop reproducible references.

This role is global and fully remote, ~15 hours/week, with flexible scheduling. Required candidates have strong fundamentals in mechanical engineering, experience with computational tools, and the ability to justify