Computer-Aided Engineering Experts in Germany
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Andreas Winters
Last position:
Enterprise Architect at Own development / IP of CAMCO Engineering UG
UEF 3.0 · Semantic Government Overlay (SGO) · Autonomous Systems (UAS / dual use)
- Designed: Semantic Government Overlay (SGO) – AI-guided administration without replacing existing specialist procedures. Read-only semantic layer over registers and specialist processes based on the Federal Information Management (FIM). Decision authority remains with the case worker (architecture principle).
- Developed: Reference architecture with source-backed, derived statements (Executable Ontologies OWL/RDF/SHACL). Technically guaranteed purpose limitation and no-write-path principle in specialist data – auditable, without a central data pool.
- Anchored: Regulation as a design principle: EU AI Act (high-risk obligations for public-sector AI, fundamental rights impact assessment under Art. 27), GDPR, NIS2, and administrative automation limits (§ 35a VwVfG, § 31a SGB X) as technical control points in the architecture.
- Created: Methodical tool for pilot organizations: data pipeline assessment (phase 0), compliance blueprint, and management summary as a decision-ready package for public administration.
- Specified: UEF 3.0 as a successor architecture to TOGAF – decision paper, canonical ontology, six-layer architecture, read/actuate boundary, federation registry, terminology concordance, and release delta as a closed specification status.
- Architected: AI-native mission OS for autonomous UAS and ground robotics as a tactical layer on top of a separately approved autopilot. Run-time assurance according to ASTM F3269-21 (Simplex pattern): the verified safety controller keeps authority, the AI function provides suggestions.
- Designed: Three-tier architecture – Tier 0 autopilot with 650 Hz flight control on RTOS, Tier 1 AI OS with semantic world model and multi-agent cluster, Tier 2 swarm and ground mesh. Zenoh as the primary fabric, MAVLink as the only authenticated command path (single writer). Result: graceful degradation – loss of the mission, not of the aircraft.
- Secured: Two-gate chain on the read/actuate boundary – governance gate (can-question: AI Act risk class per actuation, enforced human oversight under Art. 14, immutable log) before the RTA safety monitor (is-it-correct question: flight envelope, geofence, energy reserve) with revert to the baseline controller.
- Anchored: Dual-use architecture with common core and build-time fork instead of runtime switch. Three separate legal levels: civil variant – UAS under the EASA Basic Regulation (EU) 2018/1139 with the limited applicability under Art. 2(2) of the AI Act, ground robotics under the Machinery Regulation 2023/1230 with the full high-risk obligation chain, Cyber Resilience Act for both; unarmed carrier variant as defense material under AWG/AWV and Dual-Use Regulation 2021/821 (BAFA approval); armed variant under KrWaffKontrG. Each variant lives under exactly one dominant legal regime. Evidence base: AI BOM, SBOM, and complete data lineage.
- Analyzed: System analysis and realignment of grown engineering system landscapes. Approach concept for consolidation without migration – semantic layer over the existing sources instead of data transfer. Result: decision-ready implementation concept including an evaluation model for the target architecture.
Chenchen Chu
Last position:
Patent Engineer (European patent attorney candidate) at Vossius & Partner
- Patent application: European patent drafting and prosecution
- LLM practicing: Developed LLM-based tools for automated patent data retrieval, applying Python scripting to accelerate technical reviews.
Josef Ezechias
Last position:
Development service provider, mechanical engineering, design, calculation, certified project management at CAE Consulting Engineering GMBH
I am a development service provider in mechanical engineering with experience as interim assignment for all functional areas designer, development engineer design manager development manager calculation engineer, FEM, MKS, CFD, vibrations, kinematics, dynamics, statics certified project manager according to IHK industry standard, patent engineering – invention exploitation technical programmer / MATLAB, MATHEMATICA, MAPLE, MATHCAD technical managing director interim manager
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Start: by agreement, based on your wishes and needs, fully flexible, permanent or fixed-term, temporary work, … etc. Compensation: within your planned budget for the position, by agreement
Please email, send references, certificates, CAD, FEM, MKS, CFD, project management, innovation proofs - patents ... etc.
Cedric Tiogo
Last position:
B2B Freelance Design Engineer for Special-Purpose Machinery at FEM-Composites GmbH
- Cost estimation for a hydraulic system, taking into account the costs over the entire product life cycle and optimizing the technical specifications.
Ulrich Eisel
Last position:
Technical Consultant in Electrical Engineering
Technical consulting for electrical engineering in the areas of control system design, measurement technology and automotive applications
Participation in development, commissioning and optimization of individual components for hybrid electric drives including HV batteries and electrical auxiliary units
Integration of individual systems into the overall system and preparation for homologation
Development of analog and digital circuits
Design of circuit diagrams in control and special machine construction for individual machines
Definition of switch cabinet layout and switch cabinet wiring
Selection and programming of electronic control (PLC) and display / control unit (HMI)
Selection and parameterization of converters, sensors and DC-DC converters
Adaptation of industrial and rail components for vehicle use in cooperation with external development partners
Collaboration with external developers from specification to function testing and final acceptance of the finished device
Design of HV network for hybrid vehicles as well as construction supervision and commissioning
Specification and testing of electrified auxiliary units (steering, climate control, on-board power supply)
Parameterization of frequency converters and programming of positioning controllers
Preparation of quotes, creation of specifications, price negotiations and procurement of electrical items
Scheduling and control as well as supervision of control system construction, wiring and machine wiring
Creation of PLC programs and programming of operator panels (HMI)
Functional testing of individual machine elements and sensor adjustment
Initial commissioning at the manufacturer's site, test run of the machine, documentation preparation and revision of circuit documents
Leading commissioning at the end customer, training of customer's staff and management of the electrical engineering department with supervision of employees
Own patent research and patent monitoring (optoelectronic 3D measuring systems)
Commissioning and troubleshooting of HV batteries for hybrid vehicles together with the manufacturer
System responsibility for hybrid test vehicles, especially HV safety
Use of CAD systems (AutoCad light), CAE systems (Caddy++ electrical 3.0SP1, EPLAN P8), MS Office, MS Visio, MS PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat Standard, Vector CANalyzer, Mitsubishi Melsec Medoc Plus, Mac-Programmer Plus, S7 standard, Siemens Micro-Win 3.2, Siemens ProTool light and ProTool CS, S7-Net OPC server, programming software for frequency converters and positioning controllers, Sistema and Spice
Previous project experience includes: integration of HV batteries in hybrid vehicles, development of optoelectronic sensors, construction supervision of hybrid vehicles, commissioning of NC machines, electrical control of processing and packaging machines, commissioning of a photovoltaic system and restoration of a run-of-river power plant
Mauricio Godinez
Last position:
Design Engineer at Butting CryoTech GmbH
- Creation of complete 3D designs and design drawings
- Evaluation of requirement specifications and customer specifications
- Execution of partial steps in technical work preparation according to specifications and documents, including project support
- Contact person for internal and external customers in design projects
- Design and calculation of piping and components for cryogenic media and low-temperature applications
- Support with finite element calculations
Andreas Kälber
Last position:
Project Manager at Winkelmann Building+Industry / Reflex Winkelmann
As part of a greenfield project, a new production plant is being built in Slovakia to produce industrial media storage for OEMs and distributors once completed.
Procurement and industrialization of production equipment for prefabrication.
Design, procurement, installation and integration of complete production lines based on stamping, forming and welding technology with integrated, labor-reducing processes.
Establishment of a production environment under strategic aspects according to the latest state of the art.
Overall and continuous communication with the entire greenfield team, adjacent departments and plant and executive management.
Development of concepts together with key suppliers and identification of ratio potentials along manufacturing process chains using value stream analyses.
Collection, assessment and application of process data such as throughput times, manufacturing times, setup times, wait and idle times using time and multimoment studies as well as surveys.
Forward-looking design of production systems and processes with the goal of implementing automated and competitive process solutions as part of comprehensive supply chain management.
Planning of production workflows, definition of manufacturing methods, design of the overall layout and workstations.
Determination and recording of process cost rates, overhead rates, cost evaluation of production processes, machine hourly rates, depreciation as well as expected share of claims and rework costs to optimize manufacturing costs.
Continuous optimizations of product designs for their adaptation into automation-oriented production environments until the plant's SOP.
Multi-project management for the engineering, design, procurement, installation and process integration of all relevant trades with respect to plant engineering, lifting equipment, production equipment and QA installations.
Ongoing establishment of an overall concept in constructive, plant engineering, logistical, IT and QA aspects.
Arnd Furken
Last position:
Senior Manager at Gehrke Maas Consulting
Hüseyin Özgün Gönüllü
Last position:
Freelance Mechanical Engineer - Designer at Gridesign
Conception and detailed design of mechanical systems.
CAD modeling, drawings and calculations.
FEM, motion analysis and reverse engineering.
Preparation of technical proposals and claim management.
AIRBUS A-320 Assembly Station.
AIRBUS A-350 Manual Assembly Station.
FORD Truck R&D Prototype Manufacturing Station.
Michael Messer
Last position:
Design Engineer at Schüssler Technik GmbH
- Development and design of drives with support from product management
- Technical support for purchasing
- Creation of requirements and functional specifications, FMEAs, calculations and verifications with CAE, test protocols
- Communication with suppliers, customers, production, assembly, quality management and product management
- Testing products and error analysis
- Support for marketing activities (e.g. trade shows)
Raghu Ram Vadali
Last position:
Telco Customer Churn Prediction – End-to-End ML Pipeline at Self-Initiated Project
- Designed and implemented a full machine learning pipeline for churn prediction using the Telco dataset.
- Applied preprocessing techniques including missing value handling, categorical encoding, feature scaling, and PCA.
- Built and compared over 15 models (logistic regression, random forest, XGBoost, etc.) and evaluated them using accuracy, precision, recall, F1 score, ROC AUC, and PR AUC.
- Tuned hyperparameters with GridSearchCV, achieving 80.6% accuracy with random forest and XGBoost.
- Created visual reports (bar plots, heatmaps, radar charts) to interpret model performance and churn drivers.
- Exported reusable pipelines and trained models with joblib for deployment.
Gernot Lang
Last position:
Founder and Managing Director at Softwerk/Ruhr GmbH
- Architecting and developing SaaS platform for graphical definition and execution of pandas data processing pipelines
- Developed POlyglott, an open-source Python CLI tool for translation workflow management featuring PO file parsing, quality linting with glossary enforcement, and DeepL API integration for machine translation
- Developed web application for material compliance management (EU REACH) using Django and modern web technologies
- Built automated infrastructure platform using Proxmox, Terraform, and Ansible — VM provisioning, configuration management, internal DNS, and fleet-wide security hardening across multiple subnets
Michael Schmitt
Last position:
Interim Manager – Technical Project Management at Abbott Automation Solution GmbH
- Product adaptations and new developments according to FDA guidelines
- PLM for modules and accessories in coordination with product management
- Leading the cross-functional team
- Preparation for the market launch in the USA
- Leading new product developments in hardware and software
- Quality improvement measures
Heather Nehring
Last position:
International Facilitator and Coach, Project management at Simple Focus: Training & Strategy
International facilitation and coaching for people working in complex and complicated situations. In addition to project management and training delivery for other clients, delivery for EU School of Administration, Euopean Commission, European Parliament, as well as other EU institutions and agencies: ELA, EUI, HADEA, EFSA, Eurojust, Joint Research Center, EESC, EACEA, Fusion for Energy, FRA, EIT, Curia, ESMA, EUIPO, EUSPA, EU OSHA, REA, RCEA in EU member states.
Delivered courses in:
- Personal Development: Dare to lead, Developing your Resilience, Personal Effectiveness, Critical Thinking (conscious and unconscious bias), Effective Meetings, Working in Teams / Virtual Teams, Well-being at Work/Mindful Teleworking
- Newcomers: EC Induction online program for Officials, Induction for agencies, Working for the EU, Transitions for Newcomers
- Communication: Human Relationships in a Multicultural Environment, Team Talk, Presentation skills, The Art of Influence
Selected projects:
- European Commission Online Induction Program (2021-present)
- P&G Burnout Prevention Training (2024)
- UBS/Credit Swiss Burnout Prevention Training (2023-2024)
- European Labor Authority organizational development (2020-2022)
- BMW AG Global Indirect Purchasing leadership development (2021)
- County of Munich Integration concepts and process (2017)
- 3M DACH High Potentials training (2016)
- SCA European Sales Group management training (2016)
- County and City of Munich intercultural understanding (2011 – 2019)
- Motel One intercultural communication (2016)
- Job Centers in Bavaria intercultural understanding (2015, 2016)
- CEWE Photo Books intercultural management (2013, 2014)
Ali Ait Nasr
Last position:
Intern at Institute of Metal Forming (IBF), RWTH Aachen University
- Conducted FEM-driven analysis on tensile and cold-rolling pre-strains in advanced high-strength structural steels to optimize material performance under cyclic environmental loads.
- Correlated FEM results with metallography (XRD, TEM, SEM) to connect processing parameters to mechanical performance, supporting cross-functional team objectives.
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Statistics of experts using Computer-Aided Engineering
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
22 years
Position duration
5.9 years
Positions per freelancer
8
Top business areas
Product Development, Project Management, Research and Development
Top industries
Manufacturing, Automotive, Education
Certification focus areas
Operations, Product Development, Information Technology
Bachelor's degree or higher
93%
Master's degree or higher
72%
Doctorate
17%
Certifications per freelancer
2
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
97%
Based on our profile pool as of 30 Aug 2026.
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Average rates of experts in Germany using Computer-Aided Engineering
Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.
The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.
The median daily rate is the middle value of all daily rates — half of comparable freelancers charge less, half charge more. Unlike the average, it is barely affected by outliers.
Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 30 Aug 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
About the technology
CAE work
Computer-Aided Engineering helps teams predict how a product behaves before it is built. It is used for stress, vibration, thermal, fluid, and motion studies, plus design checks that reduce prototype loops and late changes.
Typical outputs
- Finite element models and load cases
- Thermal and structural simulation reports
- CFD studies for flow and cooling
- Design recommendations for safer parts
Tools and platforms
Strong professionals usually work with ANSYS, Abaqus, Simcenter, Altair HyperWorks, and related pre- and post-processing tools. They also know how to prepare geometry, mesh models, compare solver results, and explain assumptions clearly to product teams.
When teams bring in freelancers
Companies often need outside help when a new product is moving fast, internal capacity is full, or a special simulation skill is missing. In Germany, this is common for automotive, industrial equipment, energy systems, and other engineering-heavy projects that need clean documentation and practical conclusions.
What good specialists do
Good CAE specialists do more than run a solver. They question boundary conditions, check mesh quality, compare results against test data, and keep the model aligned with the real part or assembly. They also know when a simplified model is enough and when a detailed study is needed.
Working setup
Freelance CAE work can be remote, on-site, or mixed, depending on access to CAD data, test results, and review meetings. In Germany, English is often enough for analysis work, but German helps when teams need close collaboration with manufacturing, testing, or quality functions.
Frequently asked questions
Everything clients usually want to know about Computer-Aided Engineering, in one place.
Computer-Aided Engineering is used to simulate how products behave under real conditions before physical tests or production. Teams use it for structural strength, heat transfer, flow, vibration, motion, and design validation. It helps spot weak points early and supports better engineering decisions.
CAE is not a replacement for CAD; it works with the geometry that CAD creates. Compared with physical testing, it is faster for exploring many design options, but it still needs careful setup and validation. Strong teams use simulation and test data together, not as separate worlds.
A strong Computer-Aided Engineering specialist usually knows one or more solver ecosystems such as ANSYS, Abaqus, Simcenter, or Altair HyperWorks. They should also handle meshing, post-processing, and model preparation around CAD data. The exact stack depends on whether the work is structural, thermal, or fluid-focused.
Besides Computer-Aided Engineering, useful skills include mechanics, materials, fluid dynamics, thermal analysis, and reading drawings and CAD assemblies. Good communication matters too, because results must be explained in clear terms to design, testing, and manufacturing teams. Scripting or automation can help when models need repeat runs.
For simple checks, a focused CAE expert may be enough. For critical parts, contact-heavy assemblies, or multi-physics work, teams usually need someone who has handled similar models and knows the common failure modes. The more the result affects safety or certification, the more important review discipline becomes.
Yes, Computer-Aided Engineering work is often done remotely when the freelancer has access to CAD files, requirements, and review sessions. On-site work can still help when teams need quick iteration, lab coordination, or close contact with testing and production. In Germany, mixed setups are common for this kind of engineering work.
Look for a CAE specialist who can explain assumptions, mesh choices, boundary conditions, and validation steps without hiding behind output plots. Good work comes with traceable models, clear reports, and practical design guidance. If the person can connect simulation results to test behavior, that is a strong sign.
The terms are closely related, but Computer-Aided Engineering is the broader label. It can include simulation, validation, optimization, and model preparation across different physics. Some people also use it alongside CAE software names like ANSYS or Abaqus when searching for the right expert.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used Computer-Aided Engineering in their recent projects is 82 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 655 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used Computer-Aided Engineering in their recent projects, 93% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 72% hold at least a Master's degree, and 17% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used Computer-Aided Engineering in their recent projects have 22 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 5.9 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used Computer-Aided Engineering in their recent projects are German (100%), English (97%), and French (24%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used Computer-Aided Engineering in their recent projects are Manufacturing (76%), Automotive (62%), and Education (38%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used Computer-Aided Engineering in their recent projects are Product Development (94%), Project Management (68%), and Research and Development (62%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Computer-Aided Engineering
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