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Forward Deployed Engineer, Physics & Simulation

Periodic Labs· Engineering
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Menlo Park, CA$250k - $350kFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Role focused on AI-driven physics and simulation for on-site customer engagements, embedding with customer teams, owning end-to-end simulation workflows, and driving recipe optimization with feedback to production.

Responsibilities

  • Own the simulation workflow end-to-end for customer engagements, from model setup and calibration through optimization and results interpretation
  • Run, debug and modify physics-based simulations of complex physical processes in diverse domains, such as microfluidics, charge transport and structural deformation
  • Work on-site with customer engineering teams on-site to understand process constraints, interpret simulation results into real process improvements
  • Write tools, skills and agents to reliably drive end-to-end LLM-based simulation workflows, including experimental validation, parameter fitting and recipe optimization
  • Build and extend simulation tooling in Python – job submission, parameter sweeps, output parsing, integration
  • Feed domain insights back to the research and product teams, shaping the next version our platform

Qualifications

  • A strong foundation in numerical simulation of continuum systems – fluid dynamics, heat transfer, structural mechanics, electromagnetics, or similar – gained through graduate research, industry, or both
  • Hands-on experience solving partial differential equations numerically, including mesh generation, solver tuning, and debugging numerical instabilities
  • Solid Python skills for scripting and scientific computing (NumPy, SciPy, or similar)
  • A process engineer’s instinct: you treat simulations as tools for answering real process questions, not just jobs to run
  • Strong communication skills and genuine comfort working directly with customer engineers
  • Willingness to spend extended periods on-site in Taiwan
  • A self-starter mindset: you can take a technical problem from definition to deployed result without much hand-holding

Skills

Required:Numerical simulation / continuum mechanicsPartial differential equations (PDEs)Python programming
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Periodic Labs

From bits to atoms.

Periodic Labs is an artificial intelligence research company pioneering the next leap in scientific discovery. We operate at the intersection of machine learning and scientific experimentation under the thesis that that true understanding of the universe is only possible by interacting and experimenting on it.

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