Senior HPC & AI Field Applications Engineer

NextSilicon; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

NextSilicon, a leader in HPC acceleration, is seeking an experienced HPC and AI application field support engineer to join our pre-sales engineering team. You will port, benchmark and optimize applications for CPUs, GPUs and FPGAs, and present value to customers across CFD, FEM, MD, weather and AI use cases.

This hybrid role is based in the US with preference for Austin or Minneapolis and requires up to 40% travel.

Qualifications

• Bachelor or higher in engineering/scientific computing with strong computing focus.
• MS/PhD in a relevant field is a plus.
• At least 8 years in the field, 4+ in commercial sector.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and grow client contacts; identify new opportunities.
• Lead proof-of-concept, benchmarking and code porting projects to win new business.
• Gather and qualify customer requirements; document for product team.
• Provide market insights to sales and engineering teams.
• Support proposals with clear value propositions.

Skills

MPI

OpenMP

C/C++

Fortran

Python

UNIX/Linux

Shell scripting

Communication

Technical writing

Publications

Education

BSc in engineering or computational science

MS or PhD (plus)

Tools

CUDA

OpenMPI

Porting tools

Job description

NextSilicon, a leader in HPC acceleration, is seeking an experienced HPC and AI application field support engineer to join our pre-sales engineering team. You will port, benchmark and optimize applications for CPUs, GPUs and FPGAs, and present value to customers across CFD, FEM, MD, weather and AI use cases.

This hybrid role is based in the US with preference for Austin or Minneapolis and requires up to 40% travel.