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Forward Deployed Software Engineer

AI summary of the role

Forward Deployed Software Engineer on the Delivery team, building and deploying applications powered by PhysicsX's AI physics models directly with customers across aerospace, automotive, and other advanced industries.

What you’ll do

  • Build and deploy applications that utilize PhysicsX's physics AI models to solve customer problems
  • Work directly with customers, data scientists, and ML engineers to develop tools that change engineering workflows
  • Travel to customer sites in North America, Europe, Asia, Oceania (~3-4 weeks per quarter) for on-site collaboration
  • Design and ship low-lift prototypes, iterate rapidly based on user feedback

What you’ll bring

  • Strong software engineering foundation with experience in API design and deploying applications to production
  • Track record of solving hard problems across engineering disciplines
  • Proactive, high ownership, customer-obsessed mindset
  • Background in Mechanical Engineering or similar is a plus

Technologies

Python · FastAPI · Kubernetes · Helm · Terraform · AWS · Azure · RESTful APIs · microservices

About PhysicsX

AI-native simulation software stack that replaces slow numerical physics with deep-learning surrogates for design, manufacturing, and operations in aerospace, automotive, semiconductors, energy, and materials.

Series B · 100–200 people

Source and classification

Production engineering · Evidence for this classification:

About us 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. The Role Your role, first and foremost, is to help our customers solve their most important problems. As a Software Engineer, this takes the form of building and deploying applications that utilize the power of our physics
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About us 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. The Role Your role, first and foremost, is to help our customers solve their most important problems. As a 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 t [... source excerpt omitted ...] Engineering or similar is a plus. This role deals with breadth across the full stack, having a solid foundation in software engineering, API design, and deploying applications to production is desired. Proactivity & high ownership: You’ll be responsible for driving impact for our customers, whatever that might look like. We're looking for someone who is a go-getter and is naturally inclined to find problems and solve them end-to-end. You own the responsibility to get things done and will pick up the skills and experience needed to solve novel problems quickly. Solution-focussed:We build tools that customers need, not just the ones they want. So you must be someone who is custome [... source excerpt omitted ...] do engineering. What a day might look like Collaborate with cross-functional teams: 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. E2E application design: Work with customers to shape tools that are impactful for their teams. Construct low-lift prototypes of your ideas and ship them directly to the customer. Rapidly iterate on this experience through constant user feedback. Backend development: Build and maintain RESTful APIs (FastAPI) and microservices in Python to serve Large Physics Models to

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