HPC Field Applications Engineer
About The Position
NextSilicon is seeking an experienced HPC and AI application field support engineer to join their pre-sales engineering team. The role involves identifying and qualifying opportunities for NextSilicon's technology in various industry verticals, as well as governmental and academic institutions, primarily in the American markets (United States and Canada). The ideal candidate will have broad work experience in application areas such as CFD, FEM, MD, Weather/Climate, QM, and AI models, with the ability to port, benchmark, and optimize applications across different high-performance computing technologies (CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, etc.). Strong hands-on experience is required, alongside excellent communication skills for discussing the company's unique approach with customers and gathering/summarizing new customer requirements for R&D teams. The position requires close collaboration with sales and business development, leveraging client networks, formulating requirements for future hardware/software, liaising with customer technical experts, providing consulting on maximizing technology value, conducting performance studies, code porting, proof-of-concepts, and assisting sales partners with proposals. The role is hybrid, preferably in Austin, TX or Minneapolis, MN offices, but remote is considered for exceptional candidates. Travel up to 40% is required, predominantly in North America and occasionally internationally.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science in an engineering discipline (computer science, mathematics, natural sciences or engineering) with a significant focus on scientific computing
- At least 8 years of work experience in the field, of which at least 4 years should be in the commercial sector
- Practical work experience with at least two computing architectures (CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, vector processors, …) is required
- Practical expertise in at least two application areas is required (finite element methods, computational fluid dynamics, molecular dynamics, high-energy or astro physics, quantum chemistry, weather/climate simulations, AI training & inference frameworks)
- A strong parallel programming experience using both MPI and OpenMP is required
- A strong C/C++ and Fortran background is required
- UNIX (Linux) and shell programming experience is required
- Good presentation skills and soft skills in working with customers are essential
- Strong technical writing skills are important(presentations, whitepapers, blogs, …)
- US citizenship with eligibility to visit US government research facilities
Nice To Haves
- Masters or Ph.D. with relevant specialization is a plus
- If work experience is highly relevant to the field, supported by an excellent track record (e.g. publications), those with less years would be considered
- Experience in at least two industry verticals are strongly desired (government, academic, finance, oil & gas, manufacturing, telecommunication, engineering or logistics)
- Fortran experience can be less, but willingness to learn and expand is required
- Python programming is a plus
- Examples of peer-reviewed publications are a plus
Responsibilities
- Maintain and foster existing and create new contacts with clients, actively looking for new opportunities
- Initiate, organize and lead proof-of-concept, benchmarking and code porting projects to win new business
- Gather and qualify new important customer requirements; document and discuss them with product management and engineering
- Providing competitive market insights and guidance to sales and engineering teams
- Assist our partners in finding both standard and innovative answers to technical requirements and questions in proposals and help in providing concise descriptions and compelling value propositions to be included in their proposals
- Assess and mitigate technology risks for our clients and our company
- Present the value of our technology for different use cases in front of customers
- Actively work and contribute towards achieving our sales targets and other KPIs
- Actively report your activities and discuss your plans with your peers and management team
- Grow your area of expertise (new classes of applications and market verticals, competitor awareness, new methodologies and relevant technical frameworks, familiarization with NextSilicons technologies.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
