Focused
Machine Learning Engineer (f/m/d)
Darmstadt, DE · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Sep 21, 2026
- Education
- Master’s or PhD in a listed or closely related field.
About the job
Builds and integrates machine learning models into Focused Energy’s Digital Twin to accelerate multiphysics simulations and optimize laser, target, and fusion systems.
What you'll do
- Develop surrogate and reduced-order models, physics-informed ML, and ML pipelines for simulation and experimental data.
- Integrate models with HPC simulation outputs and sensor data; build anomaly detection and predictive diagnostics.
- Apply active learning, Bayesian optimization, and reinforcement learning to guide design exploration and system optimization.
What they ask for
- Master’s or PhD in Machine Learning, Computational Physics, Applied Mathematics, Data Science, Computer Science, or a closely related field.
- Proven experience building, training, and deploying ML models for complex physical systems; strong command of deep learning, probabilistic models, and uncertainty quantification.
- Expert-level Python and experience with HPC environments, including batch schedulers and MPI/OpenMP parallelization.
- Fluency with PDE-based simulation outputs, time-series sensor data, and high-dimensional parameter spaces; hands-on experience with Gaussian processes, neural network surrogates, reduced-order models, or equivalent metamodeling techniques.
Nice to have
- Experience with PINNs or neural operators, such as DeepONet or FNO, applied to physical systems.
- Background in laser, plasma, or high-energy-density physics; digital twin platforms; MDO; reinforcement learning; Monte Carlo methods; or scientific MLOps tooling.
Tools
Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow/JAX, C++, Fortran, COMSOL, ANSYS, MPI/OpenMP
AI focus
Physics-informed and surrogate ML for accelerating simulations, uncertainty quantification, anomaly detection, predictive diagnostics, and autonomous or semi-autonomous system optimization.
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