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ToptalCAD scripting Expert
Toptal is building evaluation benchmarks that test whether AI agents can complete real professional work from start to finish. The company is hiring a CAD Scripting…
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Toptal is building evaluation benchmarks that test whether AI agents can complete real professional work from start to finish. The company is hiring a CAD Scripting Expert to convert actual, paid mechanical CAD projects from their professional background into evaluation challenges. This remote, full-time position utilizes a task-based compensation model. The role suits experienced mechanical design and CAD automation engineers who can build reference solutions using scripted CAD, create automated…
Job Description
Toptal is building evaluation benchmarks that test whether AI agents can complete real professional work from start to finish. The company is hiring a CAD Scripting Expert to convert actual, paid mechanical CAD projects from their professional background into evaluation challenges.
This remote, full-time position utilizes a task-based compensation model. The role suits experienced mechanical design and CAD automation engineers who can build reference solutions using scripted CAD, create automated verification tests, and calibrate challenge difficulty. Selected professionals will document design intent, tools, data, and rules to allow others to reproduce and validate the work.
Responsibilities
- Design evaluation tasks by turning real mechanical CAD work into challenges for AI agents
- Define task requirements precisely with all necessary files, systems, and environments
- Write working reference solutions utilizing scripted CAD tools to rebuild parametric parts
- Construct automated checks and tests to verify geometry, dimensions, tolerances, and file outputs
- Calibrate task difficulty to take an expert between sixty and seventy-five minutes to solve
- Iterate on tasks based on reviewer feedback and document design intent, rules, and data
Requirements
- Over three years of hands-on experience designing real mechanical parts that were manufactured or shipped
- Recent hands-on CAD work within the last three years with the ability to name specific tools and systems
- Experience building or modifying designs through scripts rather than strictly graphical user interfaces
- Ability to read engineering drawings, tolerances, and geometric dimensioning and tolerancing
- Technical fluency with the command line and programming languages such as Python
- Availability to begin around early November 2026 on a flexible schedule
Qualifications
- Experience with parametric design intent
- Contributions or projects involving open-source hardware
- Experience working with Docker and Git
- Background in writing automated tests
- Familiarity with SolidWorks, Fusion, or Onshape APIs and STEP or IGES workflows
Core Skills
Benefits
- Paid per task compensation model
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The position uses a task-based compensation model where workers are paid per task.
What is the expected start date?
The posting states that the expected start date is around early November 2026.
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