Open AI training and model evaluation roles that call for CAD Modeling expertise, gathered from 5 platforms. Part of Engineering.
Pay figures cover the 32 open jobs that publish an hourly rate in USD. They are published rates, not a guarantee of income. Last checked on October 8, 2026.
This remote contract role asks mechanical engineers to build and check hard engineering problems that test how AI models reason about physical systems. The work includes writing reference solutions and reviewing AI-generated engineering outputs for accuracy and physical validity. It suits engineers with a graduate degree and solid technical expertise who can explain their reasoning clearly in writing.
This remote freelance role asks mechanical engineers to help train and evaluate AI models on complex engineering problems. Contributors design multi-domain challenges, write reference solutions, and check AI reasoning for accuracy, safety, and compliance with engineering standards. It suits engineers with a graduate degree who want to apply their expertise to AI development, and no prior AI experience is required.
This role involves creating challenging engineering problems and solutions that test AI model capabilities in mechanical reasoning and design. You'll write problems from your specialty, solve them yourself, verify the answers, and evaluate how well AI systems perform on real engineering tasks like component sizing, failure analysis, and design validation.
This role involves creating rigorous mechanical engineering problems and solutions to train AI models to reason like practicing engineers. You will write verifiable problems from your specialty, derive correct answers, test them against AI systems, and review AI-generated engineering work for real-world applicability.
A mechanical designer writes rigorous engineering problems and solutions to train AI models to reason like practicing engineers. You'll create challenging, closed-ended technical problems from your specialty, verify correct answers, test them against AI systems, and review AI-generated engineering work for real-world applicability.
A mechanical engineer will create challenging, closed-ended engineering problems based on their specialty, derive correct solutions, and evaluate how well AI models perform on real-world engineering tasks. The role involves writing problems that test genuine engineering reasoning, component sizing, failure analysis, CAD interpretation, design impact prediction, and assessing AI-generated analysis and designs for correctness and practical applicability.
A Senior Mechanical Design Engineer will create rigorous engineering problems and solutions to evaluate and improve AI model reasoning across mechanical specialties. You will write closed-ended technical challenges from your expertise, derive correct answers, test them against AI systems, and review AI-generated engineering work for real-world accuracy and applicability.
A Validation Engineer writes challenging mechanical engineering problems from their specialty, solves them, and evaluates how well AI systems perform on real engineering reasoning tasks. The role focuses on creating benchmarks that measure whether AI can do actual engineering work like component sizing, failure mode identification, and design change prediction.
This role involves training and evaluating AI agents that perform mechanical engineering tasks within a CAD environment. You will design part geometry, create reference solutions, and assess how well the AI completes complex engineering work that would normally take an expert many hours.
Posted October 5, 2026
This freelance role involves training and evaluating AI agents to perform complex CAD design tasks in professional engineering software environments. You will create part geometry, develop reference solutions, and assess AI agent performance on projects that would typically require 10-15 hours of expert work.
Posted October 5, 2026
You design and configure 3D environments and assets in robotic simulation engines, transposing real-world objects and instruments into virtual worlds. Your role is to ensure that simulations faithfully reproduce the geometry, scale, materials, and physical behavior of real elements, so as to provide high-quality training data to AI systems. This role is intended for experts in simulation and 3D modeling who master the principles of physical dynamics.
Posted October 3, 2026
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This role invites you to share your CAD expertise to train next-generation AI systems. You will analyze product requirements, design sophisticated multi-part assemblies with advanced parametric tools, and document your design intentions to guide model learning. You are a CAD expert with at least five years of professional experience mastering major parametric software.
Posted October 2, 2026
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This role involves helping train AI systems by analyzing complex mechanical assemblies and formulating demanding technical questions that test reasoning in mechanical design. You will validate answers directly from CAD models, examine AI-generated results to identify weaknesses, and document your findings rigorously. This position is suited to senior mechanical engineers with proven expertise in multi-part assembly design and mastery of parametric CAD tools.
Posted October 2, 2026
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This role consists of contributing to the training of AI models as a domain expert. You will interpret advanced technical drawings, geometric tolerance specifications, and construction documents to provide detailed feedback based on your practical experience. Your expertise in machining, construction, or mining operations will be key to ensuring that AI systems learn from authentic inputs that are faithful to the real world.
Posted September 29, 2026
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Mercor is seeking experienced mechanical engineers to support an advanced engineering and AI research initiative. The role involves evaluating mechanical designs, technical analyses, and testing methodologies for complex physical systems, bringing sound technical judgment based on field experience. This position is suited for professionals who have designed, analyzed, or tested mechanical or electromechanical products in production environments.
Posted September 26, 2026
This role calls for mechanical design engineers to contribute to training next-generation AI systems. You will use your expertise in CAD and manufacturing to create detailed models, interpret professional drawings, and optimize parts for production. No prior AI experience is required: your domain knowledge in mechanical engineering is the decisive asset.
Posted September 25, 2026
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Create evaluation scenarios based on real-world building and construction industry cases. You design each task using authentic plans, documents and site photos, then write the reference response (coordination comments, marked-up plans, answers to requests for information). A second architecture expert validates your work before it goes live.
Posted September 15, 2026
You will create assessment exercises for the construction and real estate sector by writing tasks based on real plans, maps and site documents, then proposing the structured deliverables you would produce in practice: plan review comments, survey exception schedules or measured surveys. Each task will be validated by a reviewer from your discipline before distribution. This role suits experienced civil engineers, surveyors or geospatial analysts, accustomed to examining and approving technical field documentation according to American standards and practices.
Posted September 15, 2026
You put your expertise in mechanical design and technical drawing at the service of an annotation and evaluation job. You work directly in AutoCAD Mechanical on Windows to capture and document industrial drawing processes according to engineering standards. This role is for mechanical designers, drafters and manufacturing engineers with hands-on experience with this software.
Posted September 13, 2026
This role consists of using Inventor Professional to perform mechanical design tasks and 3D modeling. You must have the software installed on your own Windows computer and be capable of capturing high-resolution screenshots to document your work.
Posted September 13, 2026
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FAQ
34 CAD Modeling AI training jobs are open on SideHustler today. 3 were posted in the last 7 days. Listings are rechecked against the official postings: the latest check on this list was on October 8, 2026.
Among the 32 open roles that publish an hourly rate in USD, pay runs from $30 to $150 per hour, with a median of $70. These are the rates the platforms publish, not a guarantee of income or hours.
micro1 (18), DataAnnotation (6), Mercor (6), Alignerr (2) and Mindrift (2). You apply on the platform itself, which handles screening, contracts and payment.
The most requested areas of expertise on these listings are CAD Modeling, Mechanical Design, Mechanical Engineering, Technical Documentation, Simulation Analysis. Each listing states its own requirements.
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