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Physics Applications - Researcher JD (Senior)

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vinci4d logoVinci4d · Palo Alto
$190K–$260K/yrFull-timeRemote1w ago
Computer VisionLeadershipMachine LearningNumPyPyTorch
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Responsibilities

  • Your north star will be production and delivering value to our customers.
  • You will work with Physicists, AI researchers, Software Engineers and Computational Geometry experts. You will work with a team to carry early prototypes through iteration and hardening all the way to customer use.

Requirements

  • Qualifications;
  • Have published work leveraging or building a simulation practice.
  • MS/MSc with 4+ years experience or
  • PhD with 2+ years experience
  • 2+ years using or building physics simulators
  • FEM, FEA, Molecular Dynamics, FDTD
  • Applied machine learning approaches
  • Computer Vision, GraphNN, Transformer Architectures
  • Working knowledge of modern ML basics
  • back prop, loss functions, generators, embeddings, transformer models
  • Experience with some modern ML practices
  • PyTorch, Numpy, Cuda
  • Training & Evaluation practices
  • Have contributed to a production data processing system.
  • We are very excited to talk with you if you have
  • Applied ML to the problem of
  • Meshing geometry
  • Accelerating FEM or DFT simulations
  • Experience going from early stage prototype moving to a production environment at a Startup or National Lab
  • Have leveraged simulation for design or data generation purposes.
  • Engineering Expectations
  • Software engineering fundamentals
  • Comfortable meeting software design standards to get code into a production environment.
  • Capable of leveraging pre-existing infrastructure and "closing the gap" on occasion
  • Strong CI, regression testing, and validation discipline
  • Comfort evolving core model infrastructure
  • Why Vinci
  • Join a rare early-stage startup that has successfully moved a foundational product from research to real-world, production environments, already serving Tier-1 semiconductor and hardware customers.
  • Our Mission & Impact
  • Growth & Opportunity
  • Leadership
  • You will work with spectacular technical leaders like CTO Sarah Osentoski and CEO Hardik Kabaria, whose vision is to greatly accelerate physics simulations with ML while retaining solver grade accuracy.

Benefits

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Additional Information

The Mission At Vinci, we are building the operator intelligence infrastructure that modern hardware programs rely on daily. We have already proven that a single foundation model works out of the box across physics on realistic production workloads. Trained on PetaBytes of structured physics data Running billion-voxel inference in production Tier-1 semiconductor and hardware customers Operating across multiple physical scales and operator regimes We are scaling deployment at industrial magnitude: Increase simulation throughput by two orders of magnitude Expand simulation capabilities to maximize utility and domain coverage Support global, multi-entity deployment across Tier-1 ecosystems Our ambition is to become the default operator intelligence layer that hardware companies run on Solving Across Space and Time Our proven unified model architecture allows users to rapidly obtain steady state solutions of various partial differential equations. We are expanding this capability into the transient domain, modeling interactions, deformation and dynamics. These are promising applications where Vinci's approach can not only reduce the compute load but also achieve greater accuracy.


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