About this role
Review real-world CNC job packs to determine whether their documentation is authentic, technically relevant, complete, and suitable for an AI evaluation and manufacturing workflow research project. This is a documentation review role focused on assessing submitted manufacturing records, not designing parts or programming CNC machines.
Key Responsibilities- Evaluate the quality and completeness of CNC job packs submitted by manufacturing companies, CNC shops, machinists, and production teams.
- Confirm whether materials appear to originate from genuine CNC manufacturing work and are not publicly available, AI-generated, generic, or artificially created.
- Verify that files relate to the same part, job, drawing number, customer part number, or production workflow.
- Review engineering and ballooned drawings, tolerances, material specifications, setup sheets, tooling lists, process flow charts, control plans, and inspection documentation.
- Assess whether production artifacts, including G-code, CAM output, toolpath documents, and setup instructions, are meaningful and connected to the job.
- Identify missing, weak, confidential, personal, customer, or company-sensitive artifacts that should be redacted.
- Provide a brief quality assessment and recommendation: accept, accept with minor issues, request more information, or reject.
- Direct experience in CNC manufacturing, CNC programming, machining, or manufacturing quality control.
- Experience with CNC milling, CNC turning, or both.
- Ability to read engineering drawings, GD&T, tolerances, setup sheets, and machining instructions.
- Working knowledge of CAD/CAM workflows, G-code or NC files, tooling lists, cutting tools, process routing, job cards, travelers, inspection reports, QC checklists, CMM reports, control plans, material certificates, mill test reports, and shop-floor manufacturing documentation.
- Comfort reviewing technical drawings and manufacturing documents.
- Customer requests, RFQs, purchase orders, or internal work orders.
- Job cards, route cards, travelers, engineering drawings, ballooned drawings, and CAD files such as STEP, IGES, DXF, DWG, or native CAD files.
- CAM files, toolpath exports, operation sheets, setup sheets, G-code or NC files, tooling lists, and CNC setup instructions.
- Process flow charts, control plans, material specifications, mill test certificates, raw-material inspection reports, in-process inspection reports, final inspection reports, and CMM reports.
- Photos of parts, setups, fixtures, or machining processes.
- Remote role.
- $40 to $50 per hour.