Remote Mechanical Engineer for AI Simulation & Modeling (Contract)

YO AI Labs; New York (NY); Remote; USD 55,000 - 124,000; Part time

Job summary

YO AI Labs seeks a Mechanical Engineering Expert to support an AI training project with design, modeling, simulation, and Python automation. You will tackle structural, thermal, and multiphysics tasks and validate AI-generated solutions.

The role is contractor-based, fully remote, ~15 hours/week, with flexible scheduling. Strong fundamentals and Python proficiency are essential for success in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• MS/PhD in Mechanical Engineering or BS with 1–2+ years of relevant experience.
• Strong mechanical-engineering fundamentals and simulation experience.
• Practical Python and programmatic tool experience.
• Ability to justify materials, loads, boundary conditions, and model fidelity.

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

Analysis

Computational Modeling

Python

CAD

Meshing

Numerical Validation

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 seeks a Mechanical Engineering Expert to support an AI training project with design, modeling, simulation, and Python automation. You will tackle structural, thermal, and multiphysics tasks and validate AI-generated solutions.

The role is contractor-based, fully remote, ~15 hours/week, with flexible scheduling. Strong fundamentals and Python proficiency are essential for success in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.