Flexcompute
Head of Education - Photonics & EM Simulation
Watertown, Massachusetts, United States
Sponsorship not specified$30k-$50kDetected 36 days ago
PythonGitLLMsAgentic AIANSYSFEAElectrical EngineeringCOMSOLResearchLeadershipPublic Speaking
About the role
- We need someone who will put Tidy3D in front of every photonics researcher, professor, and grad student in the country.
- This is a hands-on, high-travel, high-visibility role.
- You are not managing a team or writing strategy decks.
Responsibilities
- You've worked with electromagnetic simulation in your own research.
- Hands-on photonic simulation experience - You've designed and simulated photonic devices - waveguides, resonators, couplers, gratings, or similar.
Requirements
- Fluent in Python - You can write and debug simulation scripts live in front of an audience.
- You can walk a student through their first API call.
- You enjoy being in front of a room.
- You can make a complex topic accessible without dumbing it down.
Nice to have
- 401(k) Contribution.
- Friendly, thoughtful, and intelligent coworkers.
Skills
- Flexcompute is the physics company.
- Our core technology features the world's fastest GPU solvers, delivering orders-of-magnitude speedups over traditional tools.
- If a professor emails asking how to set up a grating coupler simulation for their photonics course, that's your inbox.
- This is a remote position based in the US or Canada.
- Expect frequent travel - 30-50% of your time will be at conferences, campuses, and research labs.
Compensation
- $30k-$50k
Benefits
- People leave your talks wanting to try the thing you showed them.
- Competitive compensation with equity of a fast-growing startup.
- Medical, dental, and vision health insurance.
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