Founding Simulation Engineer – Godela
Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)$120k - $180k + equityFull-timePosted 11mo ago
About the role
AI Physics Engine to replace simulations and prototypes. Founding role to define the data engine, validation strategy, and scale the world’s first Physics Foundation Model for simulating physical systems across multiple domains.
Responsibilities
- Define the methodology for representing physical systems in data and models—balancing accuracy, scale, and generalization.
- Own the strategy for validating and verifying model outputs against ground-truth simulation and experimental data.
- Generate and curate simulation data across multiple physics domains (CFD, FEA, multiphysics), ensuring high-fidelity coverage of complex behaviors.
- Build scalable pipelines and standards for turning simulation and experimental data into training-ready datasets.
- Drive the research and engineering of novel techniques for data augmentation, curation, and generation
- Collaborate with ML researchers to integrate new architectures, ensuring data and models align with physical truth.
- Work directly with the founders to set strategy: which physical behaviors to target, how to represent them, and how to scale methods across domains.
Qualifications
- Hands-on CAD generation and Simulation Expertise: Deep experience with CAD/simulation domains (e.g., CFD, FEM, DEM) and solvers (e.g., Star-CCM+, Fenics/dolfinx, OpenFOAM).
- Robust Programming Skills: Python (required). C++ or other compiled languages for performance-critical tasks (a big plus).
- Data Pipelining Experience: Building/managing data pipelines for large datasets in scientific/engineering contexts.
- Problem-Solving Mentality: Creative problem solving for complex, unstructured problems.
Skills
Required:PythonCAD generationCFD / FEM / DEMData pipelines
Nice to have:C++ML frameworks (PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow)Parallel / distributed computingGraph Neural Networks / PINNs / Neural Operators / Transformers
Last updated Aug 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Godela
AI Physics Engine to replace simulations and prototypes
What if every experiment you wanted to run could be modeled using AI? Godela is an AI-powered physics engine that gives engineers faster, cheaper replacement to simulations and physical prototypes. No set up, no wait. Just ask—and get simulation quality result.
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