Mechanical Data Engineer (Mechanical + Data Engineering Required) 3 Month Contract Role
Foundation EGI23 days ago
Remote, United States or Boston, MA, USAMid Level
Responsibilities
- Ingest, clean, transform, and structure customer and internally generated engineering data for AI training and inference.
- Build mechanical components and assemblies in CAD as authoritative reference models for AI training and evaluation.
- Create labeled datasets, annotations, reference designs, exploded views, sequences, technical documentation, and other engineering artifacts.
- Define dataset quality standards and assess the accuracy and reliability of mechanical engineering data.
- Contribute feedback and workflow improvements for annotation, data correction, model-output review, and pipeline automation tools.
- Collaborate with product, engineering, research, customer-facing teams, customers, and external contractors to define requirements and deliver high-quality datasets.
- Translate customer data sources, schemas, formats, industry standards, and mechanical workflows into structured dataset specifications.
Requirements
- Strong expertise in mechanical engineering, manufacturing design, or industrial workflows.
- Hands-on experience with CAD tools such as SolidWorks, CATIA, Siemens NX, or Creo.
- Familiarity with annotation and illustration tools such as Creo Illustrate, Adobe Illustrator, or Arbortext.
- Ability to interpret complex mechanical assemblies, technical drawings, GD&T, and engineering documentation.
- Experience creating exploded views, work-step sequences, repair manuals, or manufacturing instructions.
- Ability to translate domain workflows into structured data requirements, with strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
- Preferred: experience with data operations, labeling workflows, ML data pipelines, or the AI/ML data lifecycle.
- Preferred: experience in fast-paced startup or high-growth environments and customer-facing discovery or solutioning.
Benefits
- Three-month contract role.
- Individual contributor position on the Data Studio team.
- Work involves collaboration with product, research, engineering, customer-facing teams, customers, and external contractors.
Categories
Data Engineering
About Foundation EGI
Foundation EGI builds a cloud AI platform (EGI) that accelerates product development for engineering and manufacturing teams by integrating with CAD systems, running physics-informed simulations, and automating documentation. It sells its software to industrial and hardware companies as a SaaS offering focused on design-to-manufacture workflows. The company was founded in 2023, is headquartered in Los Altos, California, and is privately held and venture-backed.