Senior/Principal Physics AI Engineer - Onsite, San Mateo

luminarycloud

San Mateo (CA)

On-site

USD 150,000 - 230,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

Luminary in San Mateo, CA is seeking a Senior/Principal Applied AI/ML Scientist to build Physics AI models that power customer outcomes. You will work in a matrix team with a Lead Delivery Engineer, Applications Engineers, and Data & Platform Engineers, transforming real customer problems into trainable models and deploying them into production workflows.

The role emphasizes boundary-pushing research and practical delivery, with mentoring and collaboration across Research and Product to advance

Qualifications

5–10 years of experience in applied machine learning with physics-informed ML.
Strong Python and PyTorch, production-ready ML code.
Experience with engineering simulation domains (CFD, FEA, EM).

Responsibilities

Own model development for Physics AI engagements: architecture selection, training pipeline design, hyperparameter tuning, evaluation, and validation against ground-truth simulation.
Ensure training data is physically meaningful and adequate for the target use case.
Partner with Data & Platform engineers to operationalize training pipelines, model registries, and inference serving.
Collaborate with Luminary Research to apply state-of-the-art techniques — neural operators, diffusion models, geometric deep learning — to real customer problems.
Embrace co-engineering: work side-by-side with customer data scientists and engineers, sharing methodology and building model literacy on the customer side.
Bring back signal from delivery into Research and Product, helping shape the next generation of Luminary's Physics AI methods and platform.
Mentor junior team members and contribute to internal best practices for applied physics-informed ML.