Field Solutions Engineer, AI & Emerging Workflows (Aerospace and Defense)

ntop; United States; Remote; USD 135,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

ntop is hiring a Field Solutions Engineer with a strong background in aircraft conceptual or preliminary design. You will embed with strategic customers to build nTop workflows, automation, and PoCs, connecting nTop to AI-embedded workflows and partner toolchains.

This role is remote and reports to the Senior Manager, Field Solutions Engineering. Expect frequent travel across the US to customer locations for design sprints and on-site collaboration with aerospace and defense programs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's and/or Master's degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, Computational Engineering or related field.
• 3+ years of industry experience; highly relevant PhD may substitute for 3 years.
• Experience with aerospace design toolchains: CAD/FEA/CFD/MDO/PLM.
• Proficient in Python scripting and integrations.
• Familiarity with Python scientific stack, ML/LLM APIs, or tool-calling frameworks.
• Willingness to travel up to 50% to customer sites.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical components within strategic customer engagements and surface risks early.
• Deliver defined outcomes with clear success criteria and collaborate across teams.
• Provide pre-sale support through discovery, demos, and PoC development.
• Conduct post-sale workflow consultations to expand usage and value.

Skills

Python scripting

Communication

Autonomous work

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Mechanical, Aerospace, Computational Engineering

Tools

CATIA

Siemens NX

SolidWorks

Nastran

Abaqus

Ansys

OpenMDAO

HEEDS

Job description

About nTop

At nTop, we are passionate about building next-generation engineering solutions. We enable the most innovative engineering companies in the world to transform how they develop, test, and manufacture better products faster. Our software has been used to engineer mission-critical satellites, deliver stronger and lighter medical implants for patients in need, and allow engineers to create complex, high-performance products never before possible.

The Role

Our team is searching for a Field Solutions Engineer with a strong background in aircraft conceptual or preliminary design to join our Field Solutions Engineering team. Our most active strategic customers are in Aerospace & Defense, designing air vehicles.

In this role, you'll embed with strategic customers and technical partners to build nTop workflows, design automation, and proofs of concept against problems scoped by the engagement lead. Increasingly, that means connecting nTop into AI-embedded and agentic engineering workflows: headless automation, large-scale DOE and parameter sweeps, surrogate models, and agent-callable toolchains developed alongside our AI and GPU-compute partners. You'll collaborate closely with Partnerships, Account Executives, Customer Success, and Product. As engagements conclude, you'll move to new strategic engagements based on business need.

This role is remote and reports into the Senior Manager, Field Solutions Engineering.

What You Will Do

Strategic Project Management

Field Solutions Engineering is a Forward Deployed Engineering team, and hires should expect frequent travel to customer locations across the US to execute design sprints in on-site collaboration with our partner customers. Engagements will regularly involve Aerospace & Defense programs and may include longer-term, on-site collaboration.

• Own technical project components within strategic customer and partner engagements, taking direction from the engagement lead
• Deliver to a clear definition of done, and surface risks and blockers early

Focused Domain Expertise

1. Engagement Delivery

• Build nTop workflows, design automation, and proofs of concept against real customer data, including headless and batch execution for DOE, parameter sweeps, and surrogate-model training data
• Write Python tooling and integrations that connect nTop to customer toolchains such as CAD, FEA/CFD, MDO frameworks, and agentic frameworks (e.g., MCP-style tool interfaces)
• Help shape the architecture of emerging workflows: how nTop, simulation, data, compute, and AI agents connect end to end, and what it takes to move a proof of concept into production
• Use AI-assisted development and agentic tools as part of your normal workflow, and feed what works back to the team and Product

2. Pre-Sale Support

• Support the technical sales process through discovery, demonstration, and proof of concept development
• Deliver tailored product demos aligned with customer use cases, including AI-embedded and agentic workflow demos

3. Post-Sale Workflow Consultation

• Lead technical sessions such as solution reviews and scoping calls to help customers expand usage and realize value
• Resolve workflow consultation requests across design automation and workflow development

Required Experience

• A Bachelor's and/or Master's degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, Computational Engineering, or a related engineering discipline, plus 3+ years of industry experience (highly relevant doctoral degrees can be substituted for three years)
• Working knowledge of the aerospace design and analysis toolchain, including at least one of: parametric CAD (CATIA, Siemens NX, SolidWorks, Onshape); FEA (Nastran, Abaqus, Ansys, LS-DYNA); CFD (Fluent/CFX, Star-CCM+, OpenFOAM); conceptual design and MDO tools (OpenVSP, OpenMDAO, ModelCenter, HEEDS, Isight); or PLM (Teamcenter, 3DEXPERIENCE, Windchill)
• Experience scripting in Python, including tools or integrations used by other engineers
• Familiarity with the scientific Python stack (NumPy, SciPy, pandas), LLM APIs, agent frameworks, or tool-calling protocols (e.g., MCP), or at least one ML framework
• Demonstrated ability to learn new technical software quickly; prior experience with nTop, parametric CAD, or computational design tools is valuable
• Systems thinking: able to map how geometry, simulation, data, and AI components fit together across a toolchain and reason about where automation adds the most value
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex topics to technical and non-technical audiences, including large groups and senior-level stakeholders
• Demonstrated autonomy and responsibility in handling time-sensitive, critical projects
• Willing to travel to customer sites and conferences (up to 50%)

It's a Plus If You Also Have These

• Current or recent experience in aircraft conceptual or preliminary design, or a closely related discipline (e.g., aerostructures, propulsion integration, vehicle-level sizing and tradeoff studies, MDO)
• Experience with nTop software or nTop automation (e.g., nTop Automate, headless/CLI execution)
• Experience with GPU-accelerated simulation, cloud/HPC compute orchestration, or physics-ML frameworks (e.g., NVIDIA PhysicsNeMo)
• Experience building or wiring agentic systems (tool calling, MCP servers, workflow orchestration) around engineering software
• Experience in a Solutions, Applications, or Forward Deployed Engineering role at an engineering or AI software company
• Contributions to AI/ML or computational design work through projects, research, open-source work, or technical talks
• Familiarity with Aerospace & Defense engineering programs and digital-engineering practices
• Security clearance, or eligibility to obtain one
• Experience in a fast-paced environment with exposure to GTM/SaaS teams and processes

Compensation

The base pay range for this role is $135,000 – $190,000 per year.