Luminarycloud

Luminarycloud

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer — FEA

San Mateo, CA · Senior · Full-time

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 26 days ago
PythonMachine LearningDeep LearningPyTorchANSYSFEAStructural AnalysisResearchCommunication

About the role

  • Full-time position | San Mateo, CA (Onsite) JOIN THE REVOLUTION IN ENGINEERING INNOVATION Luminary helps engineering companies be more competitive by getting to market faster, creating better products, and reducing development risk.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the technical implementation of Physics AI engagements as the resident physics-domain expert within the customer value delivery team.
  • Set up and run simulations that produce high-quality training data, working with customer subject-matter experts to validate physical fidelity.
  • Partner with Applied AI/ML Scientists on model selection, training, and validation against ground-truth simulations.
  • Co-engineer with customer engineers - visible, collaborative, building trust through technical credibility and shipped outcomes.
  • Travel to customer sites as needed to support deployment, training, and engagement reviews.

Requirements

  • As a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer in Luminary's Applications Engineering team, you are the physics-domain expert inside customer value delivery teams.

Nice to have

  • An engineering or physics background (e.g., Mechanical, Aerospace, Civil) with demonstrated expertise in structural simulation and Physics AI.
  • Experience with FEA software - such as ANSYS Mechanical, Abaqus, Nastran, LS-DYNA, or similar - and associated workflows for linear/nonlinear analysis, modal analysis, or durability.
  • Luminary is a Series B company headquartered in San Mateo, California.
  • YOUR IMPACT As a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer in Luminary's Applications Engineering team, you are the physics-domain expert inside customer value delivery teams.
  • You operate at the boundary of cutting-edge research and real-world engineering practice, embedded shoulder-to-shoulder with customer engineers.
  • Translate customer engineering problems into simulation campaigns, training datasets, and surrogate model architectures.
  • Work with Data & Platform engineers to integrate models into customer engineering workflows.
  • Bring customer signal back to Product and Research, shaping Luminary's simulation and Physics AI roadmap.

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