Senior Principal CAE Software Architect – 3D & GPU

Divergent; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 171,000 - 314,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity plan

Paid vacation and holidays

Parental leave

Health and wellness benefits

Professional development

Job summary

Divergent is seeking a Senior Principal Software Architect (DES) to define and advance architecture for complex CAE desktop and web applications, with emphasis on 3D visualization, GPU workloads, and scalable frameworks. You will shape technical roadmaps, guide cross‑team implementations, and mentor senior engineers.

You will lead architectural decisions across multiple programs, ensuring reliable, scalable solutions while aligning with long‑term engineering objectives and platform integration.

Qualifications

• Ability to lawfully access information and technology subject to U.S. export controls.
• Extensive experience defining software architecture for complex desktop applications, CAE systems, engineering platforms, or comparable industrial software.
• Demonstrated expertise in interactive 3D application architecture, graphics rendering, UI frameworks, and high-performance software systems.
• Proven ability to define and execute technical strategies spanning multiple projects, programs, or product areas.
• Experience developing shared software frameworks, architectural standards, and reusable platform capabilities adopted across teams.
• Demonstrated ability to solve unique, complex technical problems spanning multiple systems or engineering disciplines.
• Experience architecting GPU compute infrastructure, distributed execution systems, or computational job orchestration.
• Strong judgment in making high‑impact architectural decisions and balancing competing technical and program requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction across organizational boundaries and advise engineering leadership on architectural strategy.
• Experience leading major technical initiatives and mentoring senior technical contributors.
• Familiarity with Siemens NX, Teamcenter, and comparable CAE, CAD, and PLM ecosystems.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute architectural strategies for interactive 3D desktop and web-based CAE applications spanning multiple projects, programs, and product areas.
• Establish shared application frameworks, architecture standards, and reusable software capabilities that support development across the DES organization.
• Lead the architecture of scalable GPU compute orchestration, clustered GPU job scheduling, and resource management for computationally intensive engineering workflows.
• Anticipate emerging technical challenges and develop solutions to complex problems spanning application architecture, graphics rendering, UI frameworks, computational workloads, and platform integration.
• Drive major technical initiatives that improve software scalability, application performance, development efficiency, and architectural consistency across multiple programs.
• Establish architectural principles and technical decision frameworks that guide software design, technology selection, and cross-team implementation.
• Resolve systemic technical dependencies and integration challenges across desktop applications, shared services, computational design systems, and engineering platforms.
• Influence technical roadmaps and architectural priorities across DES and Platform IPT, aligning investments with long-term computational design and engineering objectives.
• Provide functional architectural guidance to engineering teams and senior technical contributors, ensuring complex systems are designed for reliability, maintainability, and extensibility.
• Lead architecture reviews and major technical design decisions, balancing program requirements with broader system-level considerations.
• Establish approaches for integrating topology optimization, computational geometry, CAE solvers, and GPU-accelerated computation into cohesive engineering applications.
• Mentor senior and staff-level engineers and strengthen architectural decision-making and technical leadership across multiple teams.
• Represent the function in high-impact technical discussions with engineering leadership, platform stakeholders, customers, and vendors as appropriate.
• Evaluate architectural risks, emerging technologies, and technology investments that may affect multiple programs or product areas.

Skills

Software architecture

Desktop apps

3D graphics

High-performance software

GPU compute

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Architecture reviews

Mentoring staff

Cross-team influence

CA E/PLM ecosystems

Tools

Siemens NX

Teamcenter

CAE/CAD/PLM ecosystems

Job description

Divergent is seeking a Senior Principal Software Architect (DES) to define and advance architecture for complex CAE desktop and web applications, with emphasis on 3D visualization, GPU workloads, and scalable frameworks. You will shape technical roadmaps, guide cross‑team implementations, and mentor senior engineers.

You will lead architectural decisions across multiple programs, ensuring reliable, scalable solutions while aligning with long‑term engineering objectives and platform integration.