$60-$150/hr civil and structural engineering work, on your schedule
Review AI-generated structural calcs, code analyses, and design drawings the way you'd review work before stamping it. Catch the load path that doesn't close, the code section misapplied, the detail that fails in the field. The judgment behind a stamp - what you're personally liable for - is what AI labs need on the record.
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Hi, we're Zac and Jack, the founders of Terac. We want to talk to you directly, because you are the most important part of what we're building.
Terac is a community of experts. People who have spent years getting good at something specific and hard. The world is about to need more of you, not less. As AI takes on more of the world's work, the bottleneck shifts to the people who actually know what they're talking about.
Expert labor is the rarest resource in the world right now, and it is shockingly hard to find. The companies that need a structural engineer's eye on an under-sized beam spend weeks chasing people, paying placement fees, and settling for whoever is available. Meanwhile thousands of qualified people are sitting with knowledge that no one ever asks for.
That gap is what we're here to close. Every project that lands on Terac is routed to the people who actually know the answer, on their schedule, paid fairly, and only when the work is verified. No middleman taking a cut of your time. No vague gigs. No chasing checks.
We care about every single person in this community. If you join Terac, you're not a row in a database to us. We read the feedback. We answer the emails. We will fight for you when a customer is being unreasonable, and we will be honest with you when something on our side is broken. The quality of this panel is our entire company, and we owe you a serious bar.
If you've made it this far, here is what we're asking: claim your profile. Put your expertise on the record. Let the world's most ambitious teams come find you for the work only you can do.
Civil Engineering questions
Still curious? Write to us at support@terac.com.
Geotechnical engineers are in demand for tasks where AI models reason about soil bearing capacity, site investigation reports, and foundation design. Your PE license is the qualifying credential regardless of sub-discipline, and geotech is a specialty where model outputs are frequently wrong in ways that only a practicing engineer would catch.
No. The work involves evaluating AI-generated content for technical accuracy, reasoning quality, and adherence to standards like ASCE 7 or ACI 318 - not stamping or certifying anything. You are acting as a subject-matter reviewer, not an engineer of record, and nothing you produce is submitted to a jurisdiction or used as a design document.
Tasks typically involve written technical content: AI-generated structural analysis narratives, load path explanations, code-compliance summaries referencing IBC or AISC 360, and worked examples of beam or column design. You may also annotate or correct step-by-step calculations in text form. Proprietary BIM files and CAD drawings are not part of the workflow.
An SE license is treated as equivalent to or stronger than a PE for structural work on this platform, and the issuing state does not affect your eligibility. What matters is that the credential demonstrates advanced structural competency; Terac does not route work to specific jurisdictions, so state-by-state practice boundaries are not relevant here.
Bridge and transportation engineers are specifically useful for tasks where models reason about AASHTO LRFD provisions, superstructure design, or load rating, areas that are meaningfully different from building codes and where general structural AI training data is thin. Demand for building-focused work is higher overall, but transportation infrastructure is a named sub-specialty with recurring project slots.
Why your expertise matters
Civil and structural engineering involves life-safety decisions where a model's confident but flawed output - an undersized shear wall, a missed load combination, a misapplied ASCE 7 provision - could propagate into real design workflows before anyone catches it. Engineers who routinely check calculations, interpret geotechnical reports, and apply code judgment know exactly where AI tends to overgeneralize or miss the governing load case. That professional instinct is precisely what labs need to identify failure modes and build more reliable reasoning in their models.
How pay works
Pay toward the top of the $60-$150/hr band reflects depth in a high-stakes sub-specialty: licensed PEs with seismic or blast design experience, bridge engineers familiar with AASHTO LRFD, or foundation specialists who routinely adjudicate between geotechnical and structural demands. All work is fully remote, billed by the verified hour, and released only after the platform confirms your deliverable meets scope - there are no retainers and no minimum commitments.
What the work looks like
A sample of the civil and structural engineering work you would pick up. Every project is scoped, remote, and paid on verified completion.
- Review an AI-generated moment frame analysis for a mid-rise steel building and flag any incorrect load combinations or missing drift checks per ASCE 7.
- Evaluate a model-produced foundation design narrative for a mat slab on expansive soil and identify where the geotechnical assumptions diverge from standard practice.
- Create a worked example showing how you would size a concrete shear wall for a seismic design category D building, narrating each decision point so a model can learn the reasoning.
- Assess whether an AI-written code-compliance summary correctly applies IBC 2021 occupancy separation requirements to a mixed-use structure.
- Compare two AI-generated retaining wall designs and annotate which one correctly accounts for hydrostatic pressure and surcharge loading.
- Stress-test a model's explanation of progressive collapse resistance under UFC 4-023-03 by identifying gaps in the alternate load path discussion.
Specialties we match
Civil Engineering projects span a wide range of focus areas. Tell us where you go deep and we route the work that fits.
- Structural analysis and load path design
- ASCE 7 wind and seismic loading
- AASHTO LRFD bridge design
- Foundation and geotechnical engineering
- Steel connection design (AISC 360)
- Reinforced and post-tensioned concrete (ACI 318)
- Finite element analysis (SAP2000, ETABS, RISA)
- Retaining walls and earth retention systems
- Construction documents and shop drawing review
- IBC and local building code compliance
- Failure mode and forensic engineering
- BIM coordination (Revit Structure, Tekla)
