Remote Mechanical Modeling & Simulation Expert (Contractor)

YO AI Labs; Boston (MA); Remote; USD 83,000 - 138,000; Part time

Job summary

YO AI Labs is seeking a Mechanical Engineering Expert to support an AI training project. You will solve, validate, and review mechanical tasks across structural, thermal, and multiphysics domains, using Python for automation and analysis.

Qualifications include MS/PhD or BS with 1–2+ years of experience, strong fundamentals in mechanical engineering, and proficiency in Python and scientific tools. This contractor role is fully remote with flexible scheduling.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Solve and validate mechanical engineering problems involving design, analysis, simulation, and testing.
• Translate 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

Python

CAD

Meshing

Numerical Validation

Education

MS in Mechanical Engineering

PhD in Mechanical Engineering

BS in Mechanical Engineering + 1-2+ years

Tools

CalculiX

Gmsh

Elmer

FEniCSx

CadQuery

OpenSCAD

OpenFOAM

NumPy

SciPy

Job description

YO AI Labs is seeking a Mechanical Engineering Expert to support an AI training project. You will solve, validate, and review mechanical tasks across structural, thermal, and multiphysics domains, using Python for automation and analysis.

Qualifications include MS/PhD or BS with 1–2+ years of experience, strong fundamentals in mechanical engineering, and proficiency in Python and scientific tools. This contractor role is fully remote with flexible scheduling.