Mechanical Engineering AI Trainer (Python)
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About the role
The Work
You will help train and evaluate advanced AI models by creating computationally intensive mechanical engineering problems and providing verified Python-based solutions. The work can involve multi-step calculations and simulations that use numerical methods or iteration.
Topics may include thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, solid mechanics, dynamics and vibrations, mechanical design, manufacturing processes, and modeling or analysis workflows such as CAE, FEA, and CFD concepts.
- Create challenging mechanical engineering problems for AI training and evaluation.
- Write and verify Python-based solutions.
- Use numerical methods, iteration, calculations, and simulations.
- Work across mechanical engineering topics including thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and solid mechanics.
- Apply modeling and analysis concepts such as CAE, FEA, and CFD.
What It Pays And Takes
- Pay: $10-$45 per hour.
- Hours: Less than 20 hours per week.
- Work type: Part-time contract work.
- Location: Open worldwide.
- Language: Advanced English proficiency at C1 level.
- Education: A relevant bachelor's degree plus at least one year of relevant work experience, or a relevant master's degree or PhD.
- Relevant fields may include mechanical, aerospace, materials, mechatronics, industrial, manufacturing, or energy systems engineering; applied physics; applied mathematics; or computational mechanics.
- Required skill: Python proficiency.
- Experience level: Intermediate.
How It Works
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About AI Training Work
AI training is the human work behind artificial intelligence, including writing problems, checking solutions, and rating model outputs. OpenTrain helps people find and build careers in this field, where subject experts help shape how AI systems perform.
Where you can work
This role is 100% remote: you can work from any country except Andorra, Afghanistan, Barbados, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Brazil, Belarus, Belize, DR Congo, Central African Republic, Congo (Republic), Cameroon, China, Cuba, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Dominica, Eritrea, Fiji, Micronesia, Grenada, Georgia, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Honduras, Haiti, Iraq, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Kiribati, Comoros, St. Kitts and Nevis, North Korea, Lebanon, Liberia, Lesotho, Libya, Montenegro, Marshall Islands, Mali, Myanmar, Mauritania, Maldives, Malawi, Nicaragua, Nepal, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Palestine, Palau, Russia, Solomon Islands, Seychelles, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Suriname, South Sudan, São Tomé and Príncipe, Syria, Eswatini, Chad, Togo, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Turkmenistan, Tonga, Tuvalu, Ukraine, Uganda, Vatican City, St. Vincent and Grenadines, Venezuela, Vanuatu, Samoa, Yemen, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
From OpenTrain AI's job posting, checked 29 Oct 2026.
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