Research Scientist

Augur SAS; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Augur AI in Paris seeks engineers to push real-time physics-based AI for industrial simulation. You will advance differentiable and topology optimization for complex geometries, integrating manufacturing constraints into scalable optimization loops.

You hold a PhD or equivalent, expert in Python and PyTorch, with a passion for physics-based computation and moving from theory to production-ready tools.

Qualifications

• PhD or equivalent research experience and have spent significant time training large foundation models.
• Advanced proficiency in Python and deep learning frameworks, specifically PyTorch.
• Strong interest in physics or numerical simulation is a plus, even if your primary background is in pure AI.
• You are a builder who enjoys moving from theoretical research to functional, industrial-scale products.

Responsibilities

• Advance differentiable and topology optimization methods for complex industrial geometries.
• Encode manufacturing constraints (materials, stress, thermal, fatigue) into optimization loops.
• Benchmark to quantify performance, feasibility, and convergence on real CAD.

Skills

Python

PyTorch

Numerical optimization

Education

PhD or equivalent research experience

Job description

Engineering progress is constrained by the speed of simulation. In aerospace, energy, and other safety-critical industries, design cycles are still governed by solvers built for a different era, accurate, but slow and costly, and fundamentally incompatible with real-time decision-making. Augur AI exists to change that constraint.

Founded by Emmanuel and Matthieu, both former researchers at Inria working on AI powered simulation, Augur is building foundational AI models for physical simulation. By combining advances in large-scale model architectures with modern compute, we enable real-time iteration across fluid dynamics, structural mechanics, and electromagnetics, without sacrificing physical fidelity.

We want to push engineering towards real time feedback loops. We want Aircraft components to be optimized aerodynamically in real time. Wind farm layouts to be explored interactively to maximize energy yield. Thermal stress in nuclear infrastructure to be anticipated before it becomes a limiting factor. These will come as the natural consequence of the faster physics simulation we are building.

We are deeply embedded in the European research ecosystem, backed by engineers and founders from organizations including Mistral AI, Dataiku, and DeepMind. As we scale our technology into real-world industrial deployments, we are looking for engineers who want to work at the boundary between frontier AI and the most demanding physical systems on earth. We want to become the new technology layer of modern engineering. Our ambition is global, our first office is in Paris, France.

Your Mission

Advance differentiable and topology optimization methods for complex industrial geometries, turning rigorous physical constraints into tractable optimization loops that scale to production use cases.

• Method Development: Advance differentiable and topology optimization methods for complex industrial geometries.
• Constraint Modeling: Encode manufacturing constraints (materials, stress, thermal, fatigue) into optimization loops.
• Benchmarking: Build benchmarks to quantify performance, feasibility, and convergence on real CAD.

Your Profile

• Education: You have a PhD or equivalent research experience and have spent significant time training large foundation models.
• Programming: Advanced proficiency in Python and deep learning frameworks, specifically PyTorch.
• Scientific Interest: A strong interest in physics or numerical simulation is a plus, even if your primary background is in pure AI.
• Mindset: You are a builder who enjoys moving from theoretical research to functional, industrial-scale products.

Why Join Us?

• Culture: Small team of committed top scientists and engineers in their field.
• High Impact: Join a founding team where your work directly shapes the product and its deployment with global leaders. Work on physical AI that delivers immediate, real-world value, making planes, windfarms, and nuclear plants more efficient and sustainable.
• Frontier AI: Work at the intersection of Generative AI, High-Performance Computing, and complex physics.
• Direct Influence: As one of our first Engineers, you will have a massive say in our roadmap and how our user interface evolves to meet engineering needs.
• Momentum: Join us at a key turning point as we scale from technical validation to major commercial expansion.