- PhD or equivalent experience in computational mechanics, applied mathematics, scientific computing, computer science, aerospace, mechanical, civil engineering, or a related technical field.
- 5+ years of relevant work/research experience.
- Research or engineering experience with PDE discretization, finite element, finite volume, discontinuous Galerkin methods, nonlinear solvers, sparse linear algebra, preconditioning, or high-performance computing.
- Experience writing numerical software in C++ and Python, plus experience developing or optimizing CUDA or GPU code.
- Experience using profiling, benchmarking, numerical validation, or performance analysis to improve algorithms on GPU or multi-GPU systems.
- Ability to communicate technical tradeoffs clearly and collaborate across research, engineering, product, and partner teams.
Ways to stand out from the crowd
- Experience with implicit structural dynamics, nonlinear mechanics, contact, CFD, electromagnetics, multiphysics, semiconductor simulation, EDA, CAE, or CAD-connected engineering workflows.
- Contributions to or practical experience with PETSc, Trilinos, MFEM, libCEED, OpenFOAM, NVIDIA Warp, CUDA-X, cuSPARSE, cuSOLVER, or related computational science frameworks.
- Experience with industrial simulation, EDA, semiconductor, CAE, or CAD ecosystems, including Ansys, Abaqus, LS-DYNA, Siemens Simcenter, Dassault SIMULIA, Altair, Cadence, Synopsys, COMSOL, MathWorks, or comparable internal solver and design platforms.
- Experience with distributed solvers using MPI, NCCL, asynchronous methods, or performance analysis on GPU clusters.
- Publications, patents, open-source work, or deployed software in computational science venues or communities such as SC, SIAM CSE, SIAM SISC, CMAME, IJNME, JCP, AIAA, USNCCM, WCCM, or related areas.
Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and other objective job-related factors. The expected base salary ranges for this position are: 192,000 USD – 304,750 USD for Level 4; and 224,000 USD – 356,500 USD for Level 5.
You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.
Applications for this job will be accepted at least until November 9, 2026.
This posting is for an existing vacancy.
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