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Compare listed pay and requirements across 12 open roles for CAD and manufacturing specialists. Open a role to see the work and how to apply.

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Listed pay: Up to $165 / hr

across 182 openings on SME Careers, Mercor and micro1

Ranks 12th of 26 professions by top listed rate · See all pay rates

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What the work involves for CAD and manufacturing specialists

CAD work is unusually checkable: a model produces geometry or a script, and you say whether the part is right. Postings name the tool, FreeCAD by a wide margin, then SolidWorks, Autodesk Inventor and Fusion 360, and several want parametric modelling, assembly design or CAD automation in Python rather than drawing by hand. The manufacturing side is smaller and more specific: CAM programming, CNC machining, and roles that ask whether a design can actually be made. Some postings are about auditing models someone else built, so reading another person's feature tree and finding the mistake matters as much as producing your own. What is judged is whether the dimensions, constraints and tolerances hold, and whether your written note explains the failure clearly. Remote, hourly contract work, at whatever rate the posting lists.

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  • LibreCAD Expert

    $65–165 an hour · micro1

  • CAD & Engineering Professionals

    up to $150 an hour · SME Careers

  • Aerospace/Automotive Engineering Specialist

    $63–122 an hour · micro1

CAD and manufacturing specialists