$60-$150/hr civil and structural engineering work, on your schedule
You review AI-drafted structural calcs, code analyses, and drawings the way you would before stamping, catching the load path that does not close and the code section misapplied. Remote, a few hours a week, paid hourly.
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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.
Yes. Geotechnical engineers are in demand for tasks where models reason about soil bearing capacity, site investigation reports, and foundation design. Your PE qualifies regardless of sub-discipline, and geotech is a specialty where model outputs are frequently wrong in ways only a practicing engineer catches.
No. The work is evaluating AI content for technical accuracy, reasoning quality, and adherence to ASCE 7 or ACI 318, not stamping or certifying. You act 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.
Mostly written technical content: a model's structural analysis narratives, load path explanations, code-compliance summaries citing IBC or AISC 360, and worked beam or column design examples. You may also annotate step-by-step calculations in text. Proprietary BIM files and CAD drawings are not part of the workflow.
An SE is treated as equal to or stronger than a PE for structural work, and the issuing state does not affect eligibility. What matters is that the credential shows advanced structural competency. Terac does not route work to specific jurisdictions, so state practice boundaries are not relevant here.
Yes. Bridge and transportation engineers are specifically useful where models reason about AASHTO LRFD, superstructure design, or load rating, areas different from building codes where training data is thin. Building-focused demand is higher overall, but transportation infrastructure is a named sub-specialty with recurring slots.
Why your expertise matters
Today's structural AI undersizes a shear wall, drops a governing load combination, and misapplies an ASCE 7 provision while sounding confident. Catching that takes an engineer who checks calcs for a living, not a textbook. Your corrections teach these tools where reasoning breaks on life-safety design, the exact failure modes labs need to build out.
How pay works
Pay toward the top of the $60-$150 band reflects a high-stakes sub-specialty: PEs with seismic design, bridge engineers fluent in AASHTO LRFD, or foundation specialists. Work is fully remote, billed by the verified hour, and paid once the platform confirms scope. No retainers, no minimums.
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.
- Flag the wrong load combinations or missing drift checks in a model's moment-frame analysis for a mid-rise steel building, per ASCE 7.
- Review a model's mat-slab foundation narrative on expansive soil and find where the geotechnical assumptions diverge from practice.
- Write a worked example sizing a concrete shear wall for a seismic design category D building, narrating each decision.
- Assess whether a model's code-compliance summary applies IBC 2021 occupancy separation correctly to a mixed-use structure.
- Compare two AI-drafted retaining wall designs and mark which one correctly handles hydrostatic pressure and surcharge.
- Stress-test a model's progressive-collapse discussion under UFC 4-023-03 by finding gaps in the alternate load path.
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)
