Senior Solutions Architect / Sales Engineer, HPC & Computational Engineering
About The Position
Bolt is seeking a highly technical, customer-facing Solutions Architect/Sales Engineer to collaborate with the Business Development team in launching a new compute architecture. This role serves as the technical expert, working directly with engineering leaders, researchers, and HPC teams to understand customer workloads, identify advantages of Bolt's architecture, and guide customers from discovery through deployment. This is a deep technical role involving discovery, workload analysis, benchmarking, and collaboration with Bolt's engineering team, rather than a traditional pre-sales demo position. Experience in HPC, computational science/engineering, electromagnetic simulation, GPU acceleration, scientific computing, or similar compute-intensive workloads is particularly valued.
Requirements
- 8+ years of relevant experience in solutions architecture, sales engineering, field applications engineering, HPC engineering, scientific computing, computational engineering, or a related field
- Strong understanding of HPC architectures and compute-intensive workloads
- Experience working with GPUs, accelerators, CPUs, heterogeneous computing, or high-performance computing systems
- Experience engaging directly with seasoned technical customers
- Ability to understand a customer's workload and identify where performance bottlenecks occur
- Strong knowledge of benchmarking and performance analysis
- Ability to communicate complex architecture and performance concepts clearly to both engineers and executives
- Comfortable operating between commercial and engineering organizations
- Strong technical judgment and willingness to say when a workload is not a good fit
- Comfortable working in an early-stage environment where technical and commercial processes are still being developed
- Willingness to travel for strategic customer engagements
Nice To Haves
- Computational electromagnetics/electromagnetic simulation
- FDTD, FEM, MoM or related numerical simulation methods
- HPC simulation workloads
- CUDA, GPU programming or accelerator optimization
- C/C++ and/or Python
- Parallel computing
- MPI and distributed computing
- Performance profiling and optimization
- Large-memory scientific workloads
- HPC clusters and high-speed interconnects
- Experience with national laboratories, aerospace/defense, scientific computing organizations, or major HPC environments
- Experience with commercial simulation software and/or internally developed scientific codes
- Domain exposure in electromagnetic simulation, computational physics, computational fluid dynamics, EDA, seismic/geophysical simulation, weather/climate modeling, rendering, or other highly compute-intensive scientific workloads
Responsibilities
- Partner directly with Bolt's commercial lead on strategic customer engagements
- Lead technical discovery with customer engineering, HPC, research, and infrastructure teams
- Understand customers' existing workloads, compute environments, bottlenecks, performance requirements, and deployment constraints
- Identify workloads where Bolt's architecture could provide meaningful performance or cost-performance advantages
- Translate customer requirements into clear technical requirements for Bolt's engineering organization
- Design and coordinate benchmarks, technical evaluations, proofs of concept, and workload validation
- Help customers understand Bolt's architecture and how it compares with existing CPU/GPU-based approaches
- Answer sophisticated technical questions from customers and partners
- Work across customer teams and Bolt engineering to resolve technical blockers
- Help determine whether an opportunity represents genuine technical fit before significant engineering resources are committed
- Develop technical materials, reference architectures, benchmark methodologies, and customer-facing documentation
- Support technical discussions with strategic partners, national laboratories, government organizations, enterprises, and ecosystem partners
- Represent Bolt at relevant HPC, simulation, semiconductor, and technical industry events
- Bring customer and market feedback back into product and engineering strategy
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, & Vision - 100% covered premiums
- Equity - Stock Options
- 401(k) match
- WFH Hardware Reimbursement
- Generous Paid Time Off
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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