Civil Engineer Quality Assurance Lead (QAL)

What you'll do

Where the plain Civil Engineer role evaluates model output, this one supervises the people who do. You spot-check trainer and QA work, give written feedback, and escalate recurring or critical problems. The technical review is wide: structural calculations, geotechnical reasoning, construction guidance, infrastructure recommendations and diagrams described in text. The ad singles out risk review, meaning flagging unsafe or overconfident advice where structures, foundations, drainage or public safety are involved.

The rest is coordination: Discord updates, answering questions about units, loads and factors of safety, chasing inactive contributors, writing style guides and calibration tasks, and running onboarding calls.

Who fits

• A bachelor's or master's in civil, structural, geotechnical, transportation, environmental or construction engineering
• 3+ years of professional work in those areas, technical review or engineering education
• Able to catch missing units, flawed calculations and standards that a model has invented
• Familiarity with tools such as AutoCAD, Civil 3D, ETABS, SAP2000, HEC-RAS, Excel, MATLAB or Python is preferred
• Experience leading remote reviewers is strongly preferred

Only applicants in the United States are listed.

What it pays

Up to $105 an hour per the listing, with no stated floor. That is $5 above the 17-country expert listing, which asks for more years (4) but caps lower. The listing does not publish payment method or cadence; SuperAnnotate's general terms are on the company page.

Worth knowing

Good:

• Highest ceiling in this group of postings
• A path from review into guideline ownership
• Fully remote

Less good:

• US only
• Managing people and documentation means less pure engineering time
• The ad gives no timing or start date
• Hourly work on SME projects is tracked with monitoring software, per the company page.

About this listing

Read from the SME Careers jobs board on 27 October 2026; the board shows no posting date. Selection is an AI interview, a domain task and a recruiter interview.

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