About the Role
The role involves creating detailed models of physical products using engineering principles and software tools, ensuring they function correctly within larger digital ecosystems.
Responsibilities
- Develop digital models that accurately reflect real-world product behavior
- Collaborate with design and engineering teams to capture product specifications
- Translate mechanical and electrical attributes into computational formats
- Validate models against empirical data and adjust for fidelity
- Maintain version-controlled model repositories
- Optimize models for performance in simulation environments
- Document modeling assumptions, constraints, and limitations
- Support integration of models into testing and deployment pipelines
- Identify gaps in model accuracy and lead improvement efforts
- Work closely with QA to ensure model reliability
- Stay current with advancements in modeling frameworks and physics engines
- Contribute to model reuse across product lines
- Participate in technical reviews and peer feedback sessions
- Troubleshoot model-related issues in production systems
- Ensure compliance with internal modeling standards
Nice to Have
- Master’s degree in an engineering or computational discipline
- Experience with finite element analysis tools
- Background in control systems or embedded software
- Exposure to cloud-based simulation platforms
- Prior work in hardware-software integration projects
- Knowledge of thermodynamics or fluid dynamics
- Contributions to open-source modeling tools
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines for model deployment
- Experience in aerospace, robotics, or industrial systems
Compensation
Competitive salary with performance-based incentives
Work Arrangement
Hybrid remote with core hours in Pacific Time zone
Team
Small, cross-functional team focused on rapid iteration and technical depth
Modeling Standards
- All models must adhere to a defined schema for interoperability
- Units, coordinate systems, and tolerances are strictly enforced
- Models are required to include metadata for traceability
Collaboration Tools
- Primary communication via Slack and Zoom
- Project tracking in Jira with modeling-specific workflows
- Documentation hosted in Confluence with structured templates
Available for qualified candidates
