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Computational Chemist - GPU Acceleration

Palo Alto, California, United States💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-27 → 2026-09-26

Core

Develop and optimize computational chemistry and electronic-structure algorithms for GPU-accelerated computing platforms to solve industrially relevant chemistry and materials problems.

Role type

Senior IC computational chemist (GPU acceleration & HPC)

Builds

Scalable scientific software for molecular and materials simulations

Domain

Quantum computing, computational chemistry, high-performance computing

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

computational chemistry, electronic-structure theory, GPU programming, C++, CUDA, HIP/ROCm, high-performance computing, parallel scientific workloads, numerical methods

Preferred skills

GPU implementations of electronic-structure methods, porting across NVIDIA and AMD architectures, optimizing large computational pipelines

Technologies

CUDA, HIP, ROCm, C++, Python, Fortran

Responsibilities

Develop and optimize computational chemistry algorithms for GPU platforms; Design scientific software utilizing NVIDIA and AMD GPU architectures; Profile and optimize computational kernels and memory movement; Develop pipelines combining classical HPC/GPU with quantum workflows; Identify and solve bottlenecks in electronic-structure methods; Implement numerical methods for tensor contractions and linear algebra; Benchmark classical GPU methods against quantum algorithms; Contribute to scalable scientific software architecture; Evaluate emerging GPU frameworks and hardware capabilities.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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