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Senior ML Engineer, Core Development

Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00)💼 Full-time💰 $220,000–$220,000🗓 2026-08-26 → 2026-09-26

Core

Develop, train, and deploy production-grade surrogate models to accelerate physics simulations (CFD, FEA, thermal, structural) for autonomous air vehicle design.

Role type

Senior IC machine learning engineer (physics-informed surrogate modeling)

Builds

Surrogate modeling stack, training infrastructure, and simulation data pipelines for air vehicle programs

Domain

Defense / Aerospace engineering / Physics-informed machine learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Physics-informed ML (surrogate modeling, GNNs, Transolver, DoMINO, GeoTransolver), Python, MATLAB, PyTorch, TensorFlow, NVIDIA PhysicsNeMo, Linux, GPU distributed training, uncertainty quantification, active learning, inverse problems, CFD/FEA/thermal simulation knowledge, data pipeline engineering

Preferred skills

Graduate research in AI for scientific simulation, geometry optimization, adaptive sampling pipelines, aerospace/turbomachinery domain expertise, commercial solver familiarity, ML Ops orchestration (Docker, W&B, AWS SageMaker), visualization tools (Plotly, Seaborn, Matplotlib)

Technologies

PyTorch, TensorFlow, NVIDIA PhysicsNeMo, Python, MATLAB, Linux, Docker, AWS S3, Lambda, SageMaker, W&B, Plotly, Seaborn, Matplotlib

Responsibilities

Design and implement neural architectures tailored to engineering physics; create pipelines for extracting and sanitizing high-fidelity solver outputs; optimize inference for the design loop; partner with domain engineers to identify high-leverage ML applications; provide technical mentorship to non-ML engineers

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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