Mechanical Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Utilize hands-on mechanical engineering skills to tackle technically challenging tasks involving real physical systems and products.

• Examine and assess mechanical designs, engineering analyses, simulation outcomes, testing methodologies, and troubleshooting strategies.

• Evaluate engineering trade-offs related to structures, materials, thermal performance, mechanical design, dynamics, vibration, controls, reliability, and manufacturability.

• Determine the technical accuracy and practical viability of engineering solutions for tangible mechanical engineering challenges.

• Identify erroneous assumptions, unrealistic boundary conditions, design flaws, failure modes, and risks associated with implementation or reliability.

• Create or review technically sound engineering problems, reference solutions, evaluation standards, and technical documentation.

• Leverage practical experience in design, simulation, prototyping, hardware integration, testing, validation, qualification, debugging, and manufacturing.

• Provide insightful technical feedback based on real-world engineering experience and established engineering principles.

• Engage in projects that blend advanced hardware engineering with AI research.

• Assist in enhancing how advanced AI systems reason about mechanical design, structural analysis, thermal systems, dynamics, controls, testing, and hardware troubleshooting.

• Collaborate remotely with a team of skilled engineers and researchers.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of professional mechanical engineering experience.

• A minimum of 3 years of recent, hands-on involvement in hardware development, analysis, testing, validation, integration, or troubleshooting.

• Experience as the lead engineer for tangible hardware or physical systems, overseeing significant portions of the engineering lifecycle.

• In-depth technical knowledge in at least one core area: structural/stress analysis and FEA; thermal analysis, heat transfer, and thermal management; mechanical design and product development; or dynamics, vibration, mechanisms, and controls.

• Strong practical understanding of materials, loads and boundary conditions, structural margins, fatigue, thermal constraints, tolerances/GD&T, component selection, reliability, manufacturability, system integration, and engineering failure-mode analysis.

• Extensive practical experience in analyzing, testing, debugging, and validating physical hardware.

• Proficiency in relevant engineering tools such as CAD/CAE, FEA, CFD/thermal simulation, dynamic or controls simulation, testing instrumentation, data acquisition, and structured root-cause analysis.

• Demonstrated experience in developing hardware within real-world product or manufacturing settings.

• Background in hardware-centric industries such as aerospace/defense, space, automotive/EV, semiconductors, consumer electronics, robotics/eVTOL, industrial/energy, or medical devices.

• Ability to articulate technical decisions, design trade-offs, test outcomes, and failure mechanisms clearly.

• Engagement as an independent contractor.

• Must not require H1-B or STEM OPT support.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote position.

• Flexible engagement structures.

• Work according to your own schedule.

• Receive weekly payments via Stripe or Wise based on services rendered.

• Project timelines can be extended, shortened, or concluded early based on needs and performance.

• Competitive compensation.

• Opportunity to collaborate with prominent researchers.

• Chance to contribute to the training and enhancement of AI systems.

• Referral bonuses of up to $480 for each successful referral, subject to referral limits.