About the role

micro1 is looking for a highly skilled Mechanical Engineering Expert to contribute to an AI training project involving engineering design, physical modeling, simulation, technical problem-solving, and Python.

Create, solve, review, and validate engineering tasks across structural, thermal, mechanical, and multiphysics domains. A representative task may require translating physical requirements into a computational model, generating geometry or mesh, applying materials and boundary conditions, running an engineering simulation, and determining whether the resulting artifact and analysis satisfy the applicable physical and design constraints.

Strong mechanical-engineering judgment and experience using engineering tools through code, scripts, configuration files, or a command-line interface are required. Experience limited exclusively to graphical interfaces is not sufficient.

Advertised pay: $80–$130/hour. Compensation is output-based: experts are paid per task that meets project specifications. Completion time varies with experience and workflow, and minimum submission requirements apply.

Application process: submit your application and screening questions, complete an AI interview of approximately 30 minutes, complete a technical assessment if required, and complete the hiring manager review.

micro1 says it typically fills roles within 48 hours and seeks experts ready to begin immediately. If selected, expect to start your first task within 24–48 hours of completing onboarding.

Scope of Work

• Solve and validate mechanical-engineering problems involving design, analysis, simulation, testing, or R&D.
• Translate physical systems and engineering requirements into analytical or computational models.
• Create or modify geometry, meshes, materials, loads, contacts, constraints, and solver inputs.
• Perform structural, thermal, dynamic, fatigue, buckling, vibration, or related analyses.
• Use Python to automate model preparation, simulation, parameter sweeps, optimization, postprocessing, and verification.
• Analyze stress, strain, displacement, temperature, heat flow, deformation, frequency response, safety factors, and other relevant outputs.
• Compare simulation results with hand calculations, experimental data, reference cases, or expected physical behavior.
• Diagnose invalid geometry, mesh problems, convergence failures, incorrect boundary conditions, and unrealistic outputs.
• Review AI-generated engineering solutions and identify reasoning errors, incorrect assumptions, and violated physical constraints.
• Develop clear, reproducible reference solutions and objective validation checks.
• Iteratively improve designs for performance, mass, strength, stiffness, thermal behavior, reliability, or manufacturability.

What you’ll bring

• An MS or PhD in Mechanical Engineering or a closely related engineering discipline; OR a BS in Mechanical Engineering plus at least 1–2 years of relevant professional experience in mechanical design, analysis, simulation, testing, or R&D.
• Strong understanding of applied mechanics and mechanical-engineering fundamentals.
• Experience developing analytical, computational, or simulation-based engineering solutions.
• Practical proficiency with Python.
• Experience with at least one mechanical-engineering, geometry, meshing, or simulation tool operated through a CLI, scripting interface, configuration files, or programmatic API.
• Ability to select and justify loads, boundary conditions, material properties, physical assumptions, and model fidelity.
• Ability to troubleshoot simulations and determine whether results are physically reasonable.
• Ability to explain engineering decisions, limitations, and trade-offs clearly.
• Relevant tools include CalculiX, Gmsh, Elmer, FEniCSx, CadQuery, OpenSCAD, OpenFOAM, or similar programmatic engineering software. An equivalent CLI-accessible tool is acceptable.
• Relevant Python tools include NumPy, SciPy, SymPy, pandas, Matplotlib, Jupyter, CAD or meshing APIs, finite-element libraries, optimization packages, or domain-specific scientific tools. No single library is mandatory.

Benefits

Not provided in the source listing.

Schedule and availability

Approximately 15 hours per week. Flexible schedule: choose your working hours and days, including weekends if desired.

Contract & Payment Terms

• Contractor engagement of approximately 15 hours per week.
• Compensation is output-based and paid per task that meets project specifications; the advertised hourly range is not a guaranteed hourly payment.
• Minimum submission requirements apply.

Where you can work

The supplied micro1 posting describes this role as global and fully remote.

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