Freeform
Senior Simulation Engineer
$150K–$225K
Los Angeles, CA (On-site) +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Apr 7, 2026
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA (On-site)
El Segundo, California, United States - Experience
- 5+ years with a bachelor’s degree, 2+ years with a master’s degree, or a PhD in a listed field in lieu of industry experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics, physics, computer science, mechanical engineering, or a related technical field.
About the job
Develops physics-based and data-driven simulation models and numerical solvers for automated metal 3D printing, integrating them with software, hardware, and specialized computing systems.
What you'll do
- Develop high-performance numerical solvers and simulation models for metal 3D printing, targeting real-time or near-real-time execution on HPC and GPU platforms.
- Integrate solvers into simulation pipelines and hardware systems, and guide computational geometry and meshing for large-scale simulations.
- Collaborate on model-predictive control strategies and document algorithms, solvers, and integrated systems.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics, physics, computer science, mechanical engineering, or a related technical field.
- 5+ years of professional experience developing custom simulation solvers with a bachelor’s degree, 2+ years with a master’s degree, or a PhD in one of the listed fields in lieu of industry experience.
- Demonstrated experience writing low-level numerical solvers for physical simulations.
- Strong programming skills in C, C++, or CUDA, and experience developing simulations in a high-performance compute environment such as GPUs.
Nice to have
- Experience with real-time or near-real-time simulations on GPU or parallel computing platforms.
- Experience with direct numerical simulation (DNS), thermo-elastic or thermo-elastoplastic modeling, computational geometry, meshing, or data-driven and hybrid simulation methods.
Pay
$150,000-$225,000 USD base salary
Tools
C, C++, CUDA, HPC, GPUs, FPGAs
AI focus
Develops physics-based and data-driven models for metal 3D printing; the posting describes the company’s manufacturing systems as AI-native but does not specify other AI work for this role.
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