Expert: Mechanical Engineering (Contract, Remote)

About Patronus AI Patronus AI is a frontier lab developing simulation research and infrastructure to accelerate progress toward human-aligned AGI. We are on a mission to simulate all of the world’s intelligence. We are the team behind some of the earliest and most influential research in AI evaluation likeFinanceBench, Lynx,SimpleSafetyTests,CopyrightCatcher,Humanity’s Last Exam, and more. We are formerly AI researchers and engineers from companies like Meta AI, Amazon AGI, and Google. Our customers include foundation model labs and Fortune 500 enterprises like Adobe. We are backed by top-tier investors like Lightspeed Venture Partners, Notable Capital, Stanford University, Noam Brown, Gokul Rajaram, and more. At a glance Engagement: Independent contractor, fully remote, asynchronous Pay: $50 to $150 per hour. Some projects pay per task instead: you are paid when the full task is submitted, with a bonus for each accepted task. Strong performers move up within that range or onto productivity-based pay. The trial task is paid. Commitment: 10 or more hours per week Start: Rolling Location: Remote The role You'll work with our research team on two things. The first is helping us understand how work in your area is actually done. The second is designing realistic mechanical engineering tasks that a qualified professional could solve with the right knowledge and tools, and that today's AI models get wrong. Each task starts from a scenario we provide. You create the working document