SME || Engineering

Industrial Technical Visual Reasoning Specialist (Subject Matter Expert) - Engineering

Job Overview

We are seeking experienced engineers, technical professionals, simulation specialists, and domain experts to develop high-quality multimodal reasoning benchmarks based on authentic industrial and engineering artifacts. The experts will create realistic, professional-grade visual reasoning problems that evaluate advanced structural, spatial, functional, and analytical reasoning skills. Contributors will leverage real-world technical documentation, drawings, schematics, layouts, and engineering artifacts to create benchmark tasks that can only be solved through careful visual interpretation and domain expertise. The benchmark spans multiple engineering and industrial disciplines and is intended to assess the reasoning capabilities of advanced AI systems on realistic professional workflows.

Key Responsibilities

Benchmark Content Development

• Create complex visual reasoning problems based on authentic industrial and engineering artifacts.

• Develop tasks that require multi-step reasoning, analysis, troubleshooting, design interpretation, planning, or decision-making.

• Ensure that the visual artifact is essential to solving the problem and that the task cannot be answered from text alone.

• Design questions that emphasize structural, spatial, functional, and systems-level reasoning rather than simple visual lookup or OCR. Problem/Solution Authoring For each benchmark item, create:

1. Problem Statement o A clear and unambiguous description of the task.

2. Visual Artifact o An authentic engineering or industrial artifact such as a CAD drawing, schematic, blueprint, floor plan, P&ID, assembly diagram, process flow diagram, network topology, plant layout, or system diagram.

3. Final Answer o A concise, objective, and verifiable answer.

4. Worked Solution o A detailed step-by-step reasoning process demonstrating how the answer is derived from the visual artifact. Domains of Interest Experts with experience in one or more of the following domains are encouraged to apply:

• Mechanical Engineering

• Electrical Engineering

• Semiconductor Engineering

• Process Engineering

• Civil Engineering & Architecture

• Manufacturing Engineering

• Robotics & Automation

• Utilities & Power Systems

• Aerospace Engineering

• Telecommunications

• Chemical Engineering

• Material Science

• Industrial Engineering

Required Qualifications Education

• Master's, or PhD in Engineering, Technology, Applied Sciences, Architecture, or a related discipline.

Professional Experience Candidates should possess either:

• 0-3 years of relevant industry experience in engineering, design, operations, maintenance, manufacturing, planning, inspection, or system development;

• 0-3 years of professional experience in engineering simulation, modeling, digital twins, computer aided engineering (CAE), verification, validation, or system design involving the interpretation of real-world technical artifacts.

Technical Expertise

• Strong understanding of engineering documentation and professional technical artifacts.

• Ability to interpret complex diagrams, drawings, schematics, layouts, and system representations. • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Excellent technical writing and communication skills.

• Ability to explain engineering reasoning in a structured and detailed manner.

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