Senior Solutions Engineer - FEA & Physics AI

Luminary Cloud • San Mateo, CA

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

Solutions Engineers are the technical backbone of every Luminary AI opportunity. You'll partner with Account Executives to lead pre-sales engagements from first discovery call through pilot. We're hiring SEs grounded in a specific physics discipline — structural mechanics and FEA, in this role — who bring that depth to Physics AI use cases across our customer base. The role is technically heavy: most of your week will be in demos, validation studies, and surrogate model evaluation, with the rest spent on the commercial motion — qualification, scoping, proposals, and executive storytelling.

Requirements

• PhD in Mechanical, Aerospace, Civil Engineering, or related, 2-5 years of post-PhD experience in structural simulation, technical sales, or applied research
• Hands-on FEA expertise — stress analysis, fatigue, vibration/NVH, composites, or nonlinear statics — with fluency in commercial solvers (Abaqus, ANSYS Mechanical, Nastran, or similar)
• Experience with explicit dynamics for crash, impact, or drop-test simulation
• Working knowledge of Physics AI and ML surrogates (neural operators, GNNs, transformers for PDEs)
• Python proficiency for scripting, automation, and API/SDK workflows
• Strong commercial instincts — you can read a room, qualify fast, and tell a clean technical story to a non-technical buyer
• Willingness to travel (~25%) to customer sites across North America

Nice To Haves

• Background working with aerospace, automotive, defense, or industrial manufacturing customers
• Experience with open-source FEA (CalculiX) or topology optimization workflows
• Experience with PyTorch and frameworks like PhysicsNeMo, Modulus, or equivalent
• Experience with HPC environments and cloud computing platforms

Responsibilities

• Run discovery and qualification on new opportunities, translating customer pain into scoped Physics AI use cases
• Build demos, benchmarks, and validation studies using Luminary generated data or customer data
• Contribute to applied R&D in AI/ML for structural mechanics — evaluating new architectures, prototyping surrogate workflows, and stress-testing model performance on real customer geometries and load cases
• Own the technical narrative in customer meetings — from engineer-level deep dives to VP/CTO storytelling
• Collaborate with internal product and engineering teams to translate customer needs into Luminary platform enhancements
• Present at customer sites and industry conferences to demonstrate Physics AI capabilities

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree