Remote Mechanical Engineer for AI Simulation & Modeling

YO AI Labs; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); Remote; USD 83,000 - 165,000; Part time

Job summary

YO AI Labs is seeking a Mechanical Engineering Expert for a global, fully remote collaboration on an AI training project. You will tackle mechanical design, numerical modeling, and multiphysics analyses, solving problems with Python automation and high-fidelity simulations.

The role emphasizes validation, material and boundary-condition justification, and reproducible reference solutions, with flexible ~15 hours/week scheduling for a contractor engagement.

Qualifications

• MS/PhD in Mechanical Engineering or BS with 1–2+ years of relevant professional experience.

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 Mechanics

Engineering Design

Structural Analysis

Thermal Analysis

Computational Modeling

Python

CAD & Meshing

Education

MS/PhD in Mechanical Engineering

BS in Mechanical Eng. +1-2 yrs exp.

Tools

CalculiX

Gmsh

Elmer

FEniCSx

CadQuery

OpenSCAD

OpenFOAM

NumPy

SciPy

Matplotlib

Job description

YO AI Labs is seeking a Mechanical Engineering Expert for a global, fully remote collaboration on an AI training project. You will tackle mechanical design, numerical modeling, and multiphysics analyses, solving problems with Python automation and high-fidelity simulations.

The role emphasizes validation, material and boundary-condition justification, and reproducible reference solutions, with flexible ~15 hours/week scheduling for a contractor engagement.