Senior CFD Data Engineer: HPC Pipelines & AI Data

Physicsx; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity options

10% employer pension contribution

Free office lunches

Enhanced parental leave

Nursery scheme

25 days annual leave

Job summary

PhysicsX is an AI-driven simulation software company building a scalable Data Factory to power CFD at scale. The Senior Simulation Data Engineer will extend orchestration, validation, and delivery of multi-physics simulations, collaborating with researchers, ML engineers, and infrastructure teams to ensure data quality and reproducibility.

The role sits at the intersection of HPC and data engineering, with responsibility for end-to-end pipelines, geometry preprocessing, post-processing, and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, HPC engineering, or simulation infrastructure.
• Strong experience with orchestration systems: SLURM, Kubernetes, Temporal.
• Proficiency in Python for pipeline development and automation.
• Systems engineering fundamentals: Linux, networking, storage systems, performance debugging.

Responsibilities

• Extend and operate the Data Factory infrastructure that orchestrates thousands of CFD simulations per day on cloud compute.
• Design and operate job scheduling systems that maximize throughput while handling failures gracefully.
• Build monitoring and alerting to detect simulation failures, convergence issues, and resource bottlenecks early.
• Build high-performance data pipelines that move simulation outputs from solver results to ML-ready training data.
• Design data versioning and cataloging systems that support reproducible training runs.
• Deliver validated datasets to downstream ML training infrastructure in formats optimized for efficient data loading.

Skills

CFD

Python

SLURM

Kubernetes

Data pipelines

Linux

Cloud infrastructure

OpenFOAM

PyVista

Data quality

Tools

StarCCM+

OpenFOAM

ANSYS

HDF5

VTK

NetCDF

Job description

PhysicsX is an AI-driven simulation software company building a scalable Data Factory to power CFD at scale. The Senior Simulation Data Engineer will extend orchestration, validation, and delivery of multi-physics simulations, collaborating with researchers, ML engineers, and infrastructure teams to ensure data quality and reproducibility.

The role sits at the intersection of HPC and data engineering, with responsibility for end-to-end pipelines, geometry preprocessing, post-processing, and