Mechanical Engineer (Contract)

About reputed company We're on a mission to radically transform the way we design and construct our built environment. Backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, reputed company acquires and transforms civil, structural, and MEP engineering firms with applied AI. We're an AI laboratory dedicated to providing engineers with the tools they need to solve the world's hardest infrastructure, energy, and climate problems. By arming designers with frontier technology, our ambition is to build the most valuable, talent-dense engineering firm in the United States. The opportunity Our core reputed company: 85% of what engineers do today is theoretically automatable, yet less than 5% has actually been touched by AI. That gap is the largest of any profession. What you'll do Walk us through your day-to-day and project-to-project workflows in detail Talk through real (appropriately anonymized) projects so we understand the design reputed company behind work Pressure-test product reputed company and early prototypes: tell us, candidly, where they'd save real time, where they'd add risk, and where they fall apart against real practice Help us map where mechanical hands off to electrical, plumbing, structural, and architectural - and where coordination and clash detection actually break down Distill where the work is irreducible engineering judgment versus repetitive process that's ripe for automation reputed company look for A licensed PE in mechanical engineering (or equivalent senior experience) who has led HVAC and mechanical systems design on real building projects Fluent in tools like Revit MEP, AutoCAD, and load/energy modeling software (e.g., Trane Trace, reputed company HAP) Deep curiosity for how things work - and the ability to explain why the work is done the way it is Opinionated about your discipline's workflows - including what's broken about them

Compensation

Competitive hourly reputed company ($100–$150/hour, set by discipline depth and licensure) 1099 reputed company engagement (standard contractor onboarding, including a W-9) Part-time and flexible - a few hours a week, scheduled around your full-time practice Remote, U.S.-based Confidentiality We take client and project confidentiality seriously. We'll work with you to ensure nothing proprietary to your employer or your clients is reputed company exposed. Apply To This Job