CAD Expert

About the role

• AI labs are teaching models to produce CAD models and drawings, and they need people who can tell a usable one from one that only looks right. A model can write the script for a bracket and get a clean render. Seeing that the hole pattern is off, the wall is too thin to machine, or the stair breaks the code takes someone who has issued drawings that other people build from.
• This listing is a waitlist, not an open position. No project is attached to your application. Applying puts you in the network we draw from when a CAD project opens. We ask for one thing: a short AI interview about your field, about 20 minutes, that you take once you have applied. We review applicants from time to time, check whether each profile fits the kind of projects we run, and reach out directly with the scope, hours and rate when there is a match. Timing depends on demand, so you may hear from us soon or only after a while, and we will not contact everyone on the list. You commit to nothing by applying.
• Work varies by project. Depending on the project you might model parts, assemblies or building elements from a brief and write down the design intent, review other CAD experts' models against a checklist, or grade AI-generated geometry, drawings and CAD scripts. Hours, scope and rate are set per project and sent to you in writing before you start.
• On a project you build realistic CAD tasks and the model an experienced designer would deliver, review other experts' work against an acceptance checklist, and evaluate AI output for wrong dimensions, broken constraints, geometry that cannot be manufactured or built, and scripts that run but model the wrong thing. Reviewers check everything, and you are paid for approved work.

Key responsibilities

• Build realistic CAD tasks, such as a part, assembly, drawing set or building element, with the model an experienced designer would deliver
• Review other experts' models and drawings against an acceptance checklist and explain what is wrong and why
• Evaluate AI-generated geometry, drawings and CAD scripts for wrong dimensions, broken constraints and designs that cannot be made or built
• Document your design intent, including the standards, tolerances and assumptions you rely on
• Apply reviewer feedback and revise until the work is accepted
• Work from original or public designs only, with nothing proprietary from an employer or client

Requirements

• Professional or project experience in CAD for engineering, product design, architecture or construction
• Fluent written English
• Reliable internet connection and a quiet place to work
• Willing to complete a short AI interview
• Willing to work without AI assistance where the project does not allow it

Ideal qualifications

• Professional or substantial project experience in at least one CAD environment, for example SolidWorks, Fusion, Inventor, CATIA, NX, Creo, Onshape, AutoCAD, Revit, ArchiCAD, Rhino or SketchUp
• Comfortable reading and producing technical drawings with dimensions and tolerances
• Able to explain a modeling decision in plain written English

Nice to have

• Scripting or parametric work (Python, Grasshopper, Dynamo, CadQuery, OpenSCAD, or a CAD API)
• A degree in mechanical, civil or industrial engineering, architecture or a related field
• Experience in BIM coordination, manufacturing drawings or GD&T
• Prior work on an AI training or data platform

What success looks like

• You apply and complete the short AI interview
• When a project matches your background we contact you with the scope, hours and rate
• You decide whether to take it, with no obligation either way
• Work you do is reviewed and you are paid for approved work.