Senior Forward Deployed Software Engineer
About The Position
PhysicsX is a deep-tech company with roots in numerical physics and Formula One, dedicated to accelerating hardware innovation at the speed of software. We are building an AI-driven simulation software stack for engineering and manufacturing across advanced industries. By enabling high-fidelity, multi-physics simulation through AI inference across the entire engineering lifecycle, PhysicsX unlocks new levels of optimization and automation in design, manufacturing, and operations — empowering engineers to push the boundaries of possibility. Our customers include leading innovators in Aerospace & Defense, Materials, Energy, Semiconductors, and Automotive. Your role, first and foremost, is to help our customers solve their most important problems. As a Senior Forward Deployed Software Engineer, this takes the form of building and deploying applications that utilize the power of our physics AI models to enable our customers to build better, faster, and cheaper. As a member of the delivery team, you’ll work directly with customers, data scientists, and machine learning engineers to develop applications that change the way advanced engineering is done. We’re looking for someone who can grasp advanced engineering concepts across multiple industries, fundamentally understand the problems that engineers face, and build tools to solve these problems. You'll also have the opportunity to travel to customer sites in North America, Europe, Asia, Oceania, for an average of 3-4 weeks per quarter, where you'll collaborate closely with customers to build solutions on-site.
Requirements
- Track record of solving hard problems.
- Solid foundation in software engineering.
- Solid foundation in API design.
- Solid foundation in deploying applications to production.
Nice To Haves
- Background in Mechanical Engineering or similar.
Responsibilities
- Help our customers solve their most important problems by building and deploying applications that utilize the power of our physics AI models.
- Work directly with customers, data scientists, and machine learning engineers to develop applications that change the way advanced engineering is done.
- Collaborate with data scientists and machine learning engineers to ship physics models to our customers in a way that delivers maximum value.
- Work with designers and front-end engineers to shape the UX in line with customer needs.
- Shape tools that are impactful for customer teams by working with customers.
- Construct low-lift prototypes of your ideas and ship them directly to the customer.
- Rapidly iterate on the user experience through constant user feedback.
- Build and maintain RESTful APIs (FastAPI) and microservices in Python to serve Large Physics Models to the end users.
- Deploy applications to the cloud so they become key tools in our customer’s day-to-day workflow.
- Distill down complex solutions built across multiple use cases into fundamental components.
- Pitch and execute the development of features on top of our core platform offering.
- Drive the direction of PhysicsX to be better positioned to solve ever harder problems with our customers.
Benefits
- Equity options
- 5% contribution to 401(k)
- Free team lunch 1x/week
- Private health insurance
- Enhanced parental leave (3 months full pay paternity and 6 months full pay maternity leave)
- 20 days of Annual Leave (+ Public Holidays)
- Personal development support
- Gympass / Wellhub (subsidized)
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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