Senior Mechanical Engineer — Remote (Contractor)

Patronus AI; United States; Remote; USD 69,000 - 207,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Rolling start

Paid trial task

Job summary

Patronus AI is seeking independent contractors for remote, asynchronous research tasks in mechanical engineering and AI evaluation task design. You will build realistic mechanical engineering tasks, write clear requests, solve them end-to-end, and define scoring criteria for frontier-model evaluation.

You don’t need an AI background, but you should be a practical mechanical engineer who checks load cases before trusting safety factors, with 3+ years hands-on experience in relevant areas.

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on experience in mechanical design, stress, thermal, fluids, HVAC or manufacturing engineering.
• Solid grasp of ASME Y14.5, GD&T, and engineering calculations.
• Strong ability to check units, loads and design tolerances.

Responsibilities

• Build realistic evidence files from scenarios, CAD drawings, BOMs and test reports.
• Write task requests with deliverables and uncertainty handling.
• Solve tasks end-to-end and document a reference solution.

Skills

Mechanical design

Stress analysis

Thermal engineering

Fluid systems

HVAC engineering

Manufacturing engineering

Tooling engineering

Tools

FEM/FEA

GD&T

Hand calculations

CFD

Job description

Patronus AI is seeking independent contractors for remote, asynchronous research tasks in mechanical engineering and AI evaluation task design. You will build realistic mechanical engineering tasks, write clear requests, solve them end-to-end, and define scoring criteria for frontier-model evaluation.

You don’t need an AI background, but you should be a practical mechanical engineer who checks load cases before trusting safety factors, with 3+ years hands-on experience in relevant areas.