GPU Software Engineer - AI & HPC for Hydraulics

BMT; City of Brisbane; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work options

Hybrid work options

Defence Reserve Leave

EAP (Employee Assistance Program)

Learning & Development

Job summary

TUFLOW Software Engineer role at BMT Brisbane seeks a developer to advance our hydraulic modelling software. You’ll work on CUDA C/C++ solvers, numerical kernels, and performance work to reduce run times from days to hours.

You’ll also explore AI-assisted tooling, ML surrogate models, and LLM-backed features within a small, multidisciplinary team that values scientific accuracy, reproducibility and thoughtful code reviews.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in software engineering, computer science or another relevant discipline.
• 5+ years of software development experience.
• Demonstrated experience with software development practices and tools such as version control, code review, automated testing and issue tracking.
• Demonstrated experience with C/C++ and CUDA development or other GPU compute platforms, and an affinity for NVIDIA/cross-platform development.
• A baseline level of AI-assisted development proficiency, e.g. routine use of coding assistants with critical review of generated output, experience with agentic tooling in a production codebase.

Responsibilities

• Undertake complex technical and software development tasks, exercising professional judgement, initiative and appropriate autonomy.
• Plan and prioritise work to deliver agreed outcomes within scope, schedule, budget and quality requirements.
• Develop, test, verify, document and maintain software features across the TUFLOW Software Suite, with a primary focus on GPU compute and AI applications.
• Contribute to the planned enhancement and modernisation of the TUFLOW codebase to support product quality, maintainability, performance and the future needs of users.
• Collaborate with the wider TUFLOW team and other BMT specialists to deliver multidisciplinary development, research and technical initiatives.
• Engage with users and stakeholders, as appropriate, to understand technical requirements, support service delivery and inform software development priorities.
• Work in accordance with applicable quality, safety, environmental, information security and software development procedures and standards.
• Contribute actively to improvement of the TUFLOW software development process, whilst contributing to established processes and procedures.
• Maintain and develop professional and technical capabilities relevant to the role, recognising that it is a broad and rapidly developing domain.
• Work is reviewed at the completion of tasks, and ongoing, usually on a fortnightly basis. Performance is reviewed on a yearly basis, as part of BMT’s global performance review cycle.

Skills

C/C++ & CUDA

AI-assisted development

Version control & testing

Bachelor’s degree in software eng

Education

Bachelor’s degree in software engineering or computer science

Tools

CUDA

GPU development

Job description

TUFLOW Software Engineer role at BMT Brisbane seeks a developer to advance our hydraulic modelling software. You’ll work on CUDA C/C++ solvers, numerical kernels, and performance work to reduce run times from days to hours.

You’ll also explore AI-assisted tooling, ML surrogate models, and LLM-backed features within a small, multidisciplinary team that values scientific accuracy, reproducibility and thoughtful code reviews.