Remote Mechanical Modeling Expert — Part-Time & Flexible

YO AI Labs; North Carolina; Remote; USD 83,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

YO AI Labs seeks a Mechanical Engineering Expert to support an AI training project through engineering design, physical modeling, simulation, and Python-driven automation. You will tackle structural, thermal, mechanical, and multiphysics tasks while validating results and providing clear engineering decisions.

The role emphasizes translating requirements into simulations, generating robust reference solutions, and reviewing AI-derived results. Remote, project-based contract with flexible hours.

Qualifications

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

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

Computational Modeling

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 through engineering design, physical modeling, simulation, and Python-driven automation. You will tackle structural, thermal, mechanical, and multiphysics tasks while validating results and providing clear engineering decisions.

The role emphasizes translating requirements into simulations, generating robust reference solutions, and reviewing AI-derived results. Remote, project-based contract with flexible hours.