Engineering Design Specialist

Overview

Our client is looking for a temporary Engineering Design Specialist. This is an opportunity to leverage your deep design expertise to create challenging, simulation-based engineering tasks that will train and evaluate cutting-edge AI models. You will be instrumental in crafting realistic scenarios where AI must make genuine trade-offs, size components, and iterate against physics-based simulators to meet demanding specifications. Your contributions will directly empower AI to develop true design reasoning, solving complex problems across diverse engineering domains and making a tangible impact on the future of intelligent systems.

This is a 40 hour per week, remote role.

*Candidates cannot be located in CA, CT, MA, VT, NJ.

*Candidates should have Electrical and Mechanical Engineering backgrounds​

**Key Responsibilities:**

* Architect and validate simulation-based engineering problems that demand sophisticated design reasoning, complete with clear constraints and defined optimization goals.
* Develop comprehensive problem sets, including robust reference solutions, insightful near-miss variants, critical edge cases, and thorough documentation.
* Ensure problem sets are calibrated for appropriate difficulty, incorporating multiple failure modes to rigorously test AI model performance.
* Collaborate closely with researchers to iteratively refine problems, leveraging model performance data to enhance challenge and relevance.
* Contribute to an environment of innovation by identifying new areas for AI-driven design exploration and problem creation.

**Required Qualifications:**

* Master’s or PhD in a relevant engineering or applied science field.
* 3+ years of hands-on engineering design experience, specifically producing validated designs from competing specifications (not solely analysis).
* Proficiency in at least one open-source simulation tool pertinent to your engineering domain.
* Strong Python (or equivalent) scripting skills for problem generation and analysis.
* Exceptional attention to detail across units, boundary conditions, convergence criteria, and physical realism in design problems.

**Nice-to-Have Qualifications:**

* Deep design expertise in multiple engineering domains, such as:
* **Electrical & Computer Engineering:** Analog/mixed-signal IC design, power electronics, RF/microwave, digital system design, FPGA/ASIC, embedded systems.
* **Mechanical Engineering:** Structural/thermal/fluid system design, mechanism design, HVAC, vibration/dynamics, manufacturing process design.

**About Skill:**

Skill connects the best professional, IT, engineering, financial and administrative talent with the world’s biggest brands. Our eligible talent get access to benefits such as health benefit contributions, retirement plans with match and flexible spending accounts.

Skill is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We’re about creating an inclusive environment-one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.

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