Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. 24-MAG is offering a specialized consulting opportunity for senior mechanical design engineers with doctoral-level expertise. The role involves developing complex engineering problems, authoring expert-level solutions, and validating these against AI models to ensure they test advanced mechanical design reasoning.
Responsibilities
- Author original, technically rigorous free-response problems based on realistic mechanical and product-design scenarios
- Develop questions requiring advanced engineering reasoning rather than straightforward textbook recall
- Incorporate real-world design constraints, manufacturing considerations, tolerances, and engineering trade-offs
- Create problems reflecting genuine production-design responsibilities and decision-making
- Develop scenarios involving CAD-based mechanical and product design
- Apply GD&T principles to drawings, assemblies, interfaces, and manufacturing requirements
- Incorporate tolerance stacks and dimensional analysis into complex engineering problems
- Address DFM considerations and production constraints
- Develop scenarios involving drawing creation, review, revision, and release
- Write complete expert-level solutions for each authored engineering problem
- Clearly document engineering assumptions, calculations, design reasoning, and methodology
- Demonstrate how experienced design engineers evaluate competing design options
- Ensure solutions are technically rigorous, internally consistent, and independently verifiable
- Include appropriate consideration of manufacturability, tolerances, interfaces, and production requirements
- Test authored problems against multiple frontier language models
- Evaluate whether current AI systems can correctly solve each engineering problem
- Identify reasoning errors, design mistakes, or incomplete technical approaches in model responses
- Refine problems where necessary to maintain an appropriately demanding level of difficulty
- Validate that each problem meaningfully tests advanced mechanical design expertise
Skills
- A PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Industrial Design, or a closely related discipline is required
- At least 5 years of hands-on professional or industry experience in production design roles
- Direct ownership of mechanical designs through development and production release
- Strong practical expertise in CAD and mechanical design
- Extensive experience with GD&T and tolerance stack analysis
- Hands-on knowledge of design for manufacturability
- Experience creating, reviewing, and releasing engineering drawings
- Strong technical writing and analytical communication skills
- Doctoral research should be complemented by substantial hands-on industry or production-design experience
- Strong practical experience owning real mechanical designs through manufacturing and release is particularly important for this engagement
- Hands-on production-design experience is required; candidates whose experience is limited to analysis or simulation without design ownership are unlikely to match the project requirements
- CSWP or CSWE certification
- Experience designing products or mechanical systems within a major industrial, aerospace, automotive, technology, or manufacturing organisation
- Advanced CAD expertise using professional mechanical design platforms
- Experience performing complex tolerance analyses
- Strong knowledge of GD&T standards and drawing practices
- Background working closely with manufacturing, suppliers, quality, and production teams
- Experience resolving design-for-manufacturing issues during product development
- Prior experience authoring engineering assessments, technical problems, or training materials
- Familiarity with AI models or structured technical evaluation
Benefits
- Fully remote with flexible scheduling
- Independent contractor role
- Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise
- Projects may be extended, shortened, or adjusted depending on scope and performance
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