Senior Mechanical Engineer – AI Lab R&D (Remote)

Mercor; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Cincinnatus LLC is hiring for an experienced mechanical engineer to support a leading AI lab's GenAI team. You will review, document, and engineer evaluation tasks for model reasoning across mechanical design, thermal/fluids, structure, manufacturing, and controls.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of hands-on industry experience, strong CAD/analysis tool skills, and the ability to produce precise instruction specs and reference solutions for complex engineering tasks.

Qualifications

• Genuine ownership of real engineering work (designs, analyses, or systems).
• Experience releasing drawings and specifications and leading design reviews.
• Proficient with common engineering tools and relevant codes/standards.
• Hands-on industry experience in mechanical engineering domains.

Responsibilities

• Vet quality of mechanical tasks and model outputs.
• Write instruction specs and reference solutions defining correctness.
• Design and build evaluation sets for domain depth in multiple areas.
• Collaborate with researchers to maintain consistent standards.

Skills

Mechanical engineering

FEA/CFD

Design reviews

Written feedback

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

SolidWorks

CATIA

NX

Creo

AutoCAD

ANSYS

Abaqus

MATLAB

Job description

Cincinnatus LLC is hiring for an experienced mechanical engineer to support a leading AI lab's GenAI team. You will review, document, and engineer evaluation tasks for model reasoning across mechanical design, thermal/fluids, structure, manufacturing, and controls.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of hands-on industry experience, strong CAD/analysis tool skills, and the ability to produce precise instruction specs and reference solutions for complex engineering tasks.