About the Role
As a Senior Forward Deployed Software Engineer, you will build and deploy applications utilizing physics AI models to help customers solve their most important problems, enabling them to build better, faster, and cheaper. You will collaborate with customers, data scientists, and machine learning engineers to develop applications that transform advanced engineering. This role requires grasping advanced engineering concepts, understanding engineers' problems, and building tools to solve them. You will also travel to customer sites in North America, Europe, and Asia for approximately 3-4 weeks per quarter to build solutions on-site.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with data scientists and machine learning engineers to ship physics models to customers.
- Work with designers and front-end engineers to shape user experience based on customer needs.
- Shape tools with customers that are impactful for their teams.
- Construct low-lift prototypes and ship them directly to customers.
- Rapidly iterate on user experience through constant feedback.
- Build and maintain RESTful APIs (FastAPI) and microservices in Python to serve Large Physics Models.
- Deploy applications to the cloud using Helm, Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS/Azure.
- Distill complex solutions into fundamental components.
- Pitch and execute the development of features on top of the core platform.
- Drive the direction of PhysicsX to solve increasingly complex problems.
Requirements
- Track record of solving hard problems.
- Solid foundation in software engineering.
- Experience with API design.
- Experience deploying applications to production.
- Proactive and demonstrate high ownership.
- Customer-obsessed.
- Ability to work alongside customers to understand their problems and build applications.
Skills
- Software engineering
- API design
- Deploying applications to production
- RESTful APIs
- FastAPI
- Microservices
- Python
- Helm
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- AWS
- Azure
Location
- North America
- Europe
- Asia
- Oceania
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $150,000 - $250,000 depending on experience
Benefits
- Equity options
- 5% contribution to 401(k)
- Free team lunch 1x/week
- Private health insurance
- Enhanced parental leave (3 months full pay paternity, 6 months full pay maternity)
- 20 days of Annual Leave (+ Public Holidays)
- Personal development support
- Subsidized Gympass / Wellhub (for employee and up to 3 family members)
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
About the Company
- 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.
- Our customers include leading innovators in Aerospace & Defense, Materials, Energy, Semiconductors, and Automotive.
Equal Opportunity
- We value diversity and are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, religion, ethnicity, nationality, disability, age, sexual orientation or gender identity.
- We strongly encourage individuals from groups traditionally underrepresented in tech to apply.
- We sponsor bright women from disadvantaged backgrounds through their university degrees in science and mathematics.
- We collect diversity and inclusion data solely for the purpose of monitoring the effectiveness of our equal opportunities policies and ensuring compliance with UK employment and equality legislation.
- This information is confidential, used only in aggregate form, and will not influence the outcome of your application.
