Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Kake is building a talent pool of Civil Engineering professionals with Python proficiency to contribute to project-based AI development initiatives. This role focuses on evaluating and enhancing frontier AI models using civil engineering simulation tools and requires deep technical problem-solving skills.
Responsibilities
- Identify an appropriate civil engineering simulation package and build problems whose solution genuinely hinges on that tool's core capabilities, whether solvers, simulation kernels, or domain-specific models
- Develop full Python solutions for each problem, providing all necessary input files, geometry definitions, and boundary conditions as required
- Establish the correct numerical output and define how close the AI model needs to get, using tolerance values appropriate to the engineering context
- Run the problem against the AI model across multiple parallel attempts, analyzing where it succeeds or falls short, and adjusting difficulty until the pass rate falls between 10% and 30%
- Tune load cases, boundary conditions, and solver parameters iteratively, building an understanding of how the model navigates complex structural and geotechnical problems
- Hand off completed tasks to a senior reviewer in your subfield and refine based on their feedback before final submission
Skills
- Academic background in Civil Engineering or a closely related field
- At least 2 years of hands-on experience in engineering research, applied work, or teaching
- Solid Python skills, applied to writing and validating computational solutions
- Capacity to build problems that cannot be solved without specialized simulation software
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
- Ability to work independently in a remote, fast-paced environment
- Working knowledge of one or more domain-specific civil engineering tools, including but not limited to OpenSeesPy, CalculiX, YADE, or bempp-cl, or a demonstrated ability to get up to speed independently
- Prior exposure to how frontier AI models approach complex simulation tasks
- Knowledge spanning more than one engineering domain, such as structural analysis, geotechnical modeling, or boundary element methods
- Familiarity with containerized or sandboxed Linux execution environments
Company Overview
Life is Better with Kake! Kake offers premier teams of software engineers to support some of the world's most prominent and innovative brands. It was founded in undefined, and is headquartered in Austin, TX, US, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://kake.co.