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# Mechanical Engineering Subject Matter Expert (Remote, AI Research)

- **Company:** AuraOne Human Data
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Model Validation
- **Published:** August 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=0f26b931122a30ce

## About the Role

* Graduate-level training or equivalent applied experience in mechanical engineering or a closely related field for Mechanical Engineering Subject Matter Expert (Remote, AI Research) work.
 * Hands-on experience publishing, teaching, or advising on the topic at a professional level.
 * Comfort applying multi-page rubrics consistently across long batches.
 * Clear written reasoning that cites methods, papers, or worked examples.
 * Reliable async availability for at least 10 hours per week., * PhD, postdoc, or industry research experience in the topic area.
 * Prior work reviewing AI-assisted research tooling and its failure modes.
 * Multilingual fluency for non-English papers and corpora., * Scientific reasoning
 * Method validation
 * Citation review
 * Quantitative analysis
 * Mechanical engineering

Work model

Remote - US-eligible. Remote · Independent specialist contractor. Employment type: CONTRACTOR. Applicants must be authorized to work from US.

## Description

Mechanical Engineering Subject Matter Expert (Remote, AI Research) is a remote review track for evaluating AI outputs across mechanical engineering reasoning, calculations, and research workflows. Reviewers grade derivations and assumptions, reproduce key results, and document the correct method so the modeling team can train on it.

Why this role matters

Mechanical engineering models live or die on whether their derivations actually hold up under scrutiny. AuraOne uses scientific specialists to grade outputs the way a peer reviewer would - checking assumptions, reproducing key steps, and capturing the right method alongside the wrong one., * Review AI outputs against current mechanical engineering methods, conventions, and prior work for Mechanical Engineering Subject Matter Expert (Remote, AI Research) assignments.

 * Reproduce or sanity-check key derivations, calculations, or experimental claims.
 * Flag dimensional, methodological, and citation errors with structured severity tags.
 * Capture the corrected reasoning or worked example so the modeling team can train on it.
 * Adjudicate disputed answers against textbooks, papers, or community standards.
 * Maintain reviewer-quality scores in inter-rater calibration cycles., * Grade a model's literature summary against the cited papers and rate the citation quality.
 * Adjudicate a disputed answer between two reviewers using textbook methods.
 * Audit a 25-row batch for rubric consistency and report drift to the program lead.


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