Principal Software Engineer – Physics Applications

Vinci4D.ai

Principal Software Engineer developing software libraries for physics simulations at Vinci. Collaborating with cross-disciplinary teams to drive code quality and system integrity.

Posted 6/11/2026full-timePalo Alto • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $210,000 - $285,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsNumpyPyTorch

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define and implement high-quality, reusable software libraries for our core simulation engine.
Drive code quality, testability, and architectural standards across the team, ensuring our production system scales gracefully and remains maintainable.
Design interfaces that are easy to access and correctly reflect the physics they are modeling.
Take ownership of critical system components, mentor junior engineers, and guide the team in transforming research prototypes into hardened, customer-facing features.
Collaborate closely with a team of Physicists, AI researchers, Software Engineers and Computational Geometry experts to enforce software engineering best practices throughout the full development lifecycle, from ideation to deployment.

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of experience in high-quality software development, with significant experience designing and building production-grade systems.
Prior experience with scientific computing or physics simulators (FEM, FEA, Molecular Dynamics, FDTD), or large-scale machine learning systems.
STEM MSc, PhD preferred but not required.
Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives focused on code health, modularity, and system correctness.
Expertise in building robust, tested, and maintainable software libraries and APIs.
Strong proficiency in modern software development practices, including system design, agentic coding, testing frameworks, and continuous integration/delivery (CI/CD).
Have contributed to a production data processing system.
We are very excited to talk with you if you have
Experience building and maintaining core ML, data infrastructure, or numerical computing software (e.g., PyTorch, Numpy, Cuda, distributed systems).
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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Define and implement high-quality, reusable software libraries for our core simulation engine.
Drive code quality, testability, and architectural standards across the team, ensuring our production system scales gracefully and remains maintainable.
Design interfaces that are easy to access and correctly reflect the physics they are modeling.
Take ownership of critical system components, mentor junior engineers, and guide the team in transforming research prototypes into hardened, customer-facing features.
Collaborate closely with a team of Physicists, AI researchers, Software Engineers and Computational Geometry experts to enforce software engineering best practices throughout the full development lifecycle, from ideation to deployment. 🎯 Requirements
8+ years of experience in high-quality software development, with significant experience designing and building production-grade systems.
Prior experience with scientific computing or physics simulators (FEM, FEA, Molecular Dynamics, FDTD), or large-scale machine learning systems.
STEM MSc, PhD preferred but not required.
Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives focused on code health, modularity, and system correctness.
Expertise in building robust, tested, and maintainable software libraries and APIs.
Strong proficiency in modern software development practices, including system design, agentic coding, testing frameworks, and continuous integration/delivery (CI/CD).
Have contributed to a production data processing system.
We are very excited to talk with you if you have
Experience building and maintaining core ML, data infrastructure, or numerical computing software (e.g., PyTorch, Numpy, Cuda, distributed systems).
Experience going from early stage prototype moving to a production environment
At a Startup or National Lab
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Hard Skills & Tools

software developmentscientific computingphysics simulatorsFEMFEAMolecular DynamicsFDTDmachine learning systemssoftware librariesAPIs

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringcollaborationcode qualitymodularitysystem correctnesscommunicationteam guidanceproblem-solvingownership

Certifications

STEM MScPhD