Application Users - SolidWorks Premium on Windows - STEM

What you'll do

This listing targets people who model parts and assemblies in SolidWorks for a living, specifically the Premium edition, which adds simulation and routing tools on top of standard CAD. Mechanical engineers, manufacturing engineers and tooling designers are the named audience.

Like every ad in Mercor's "Application Users" family, it is precise about equipment and vague about work. You open SolidWorks Premium on your own Windows machine, and you capture screenshots at a resolution high enough to read dense CAD interfaces. The tasks, the client and the time commitment are not published. The format is consistent with collecting real application workflows to train or test AI agents that use desktop software, but the ad does not say that, so treat it as an inference to confirm.

CAD is interface-heavy: feature trees, sketch constraints, mate dialogs, simulation study setup. If you move through those without thinking, that fluency is plausibly what is being paid for.

Who qualifies

• SolidWorks Premium installed on your own Windows PC, openable today. Mercor provides no licence, virtual machine or hardware
• Real working experience with 3D parts, assemblies and simulation
• A capture setup above 2.5 megapixels: a single monitor at 1440p (16:9), 1600p (16:10), a 3440×1440 ultrawide or equivalent, or two 1080p-plus monitors spanned into one image

No degree, years or country requirement is stated.

What it pays

$45–55 per hour, the same band as Mercor's Inventor Professional and AutoCAD Mechanical listings. If you work across Autodesk and Dassault tools, you can apply to each separately at the same rate.

Weekly payment on Stripe or Wise, based on services rendered.

Worth knowing

Good:

• Pays for CAD fluency directly, with no degree requirement
• Remote and self-scheduled
• Weekly payment published upfront
• 8 hires on the listing this month when we checked

Less good:

• SolidWorks Premium is an expensive seat; a Standard or student licence may not qualify, and most engineers use an employer-owned installation
• Nothing on tasks, hours or duration
• Projects can be extended, shortened or concluded early
• H-1B and STEM OPT candidates excluded
• Independent contractor: no benefits, tax is yours

About this listing

Posted by Mercor as a remote hourly contract, read on 24 September 2026. Pay, software edition, screen requirement, payment terms and visa limitation are the ad's own. The ad states no confidential or proprietary material from any employer or client is involved, so keep work models off screen. See Mercor.