2 days ago
Base Salary
$171k - $314k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and execute architecture strategies for interactive 3D desktop and web-based CAE applications.
- Establish shared application frameworks, architecture standards, and reusable software capabilities across the DES organization.
- Architect scalable GPU compute infrastructure, clustered GPU job scheduling, and computational resource management.
- Lead major technical initiatives improving scalability, performance, development efficiency, and architectural consistency.
- Resolve systemic dependencies and integration challenges across applications, shared services, computational design systems, and engineering platforms.
- Guide technology selection, architecture reviews, technical roadmaps, and high-impact design decisions.
- Integrate topology optimization, computational geometry, CAE solvers, and GPU-accelerated computation into engineering applications.
- Mentor senior and staff-level engineers and influence technical direction across organizational boundaries.
- Represent the engineering software function in technical discussions with leadership, customers, vendors, and platform stakeholders.
- Evaluate architectural risks, emerging technologies, and investments affecting multiple programs or product areas.
Requirements
- 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.
- Expertise in interactive 3D application architecture, graphics rendering, UI frameworks, and high-performance software systems.
- Experience defining technical strategies across multiple projects, programs, or product areas.
- Experience developing shared software frameworks, architectural standards, and reusable platform capabilities adopted across teams.
- Ability to solve complex technical problems spanning multiple systems or engineering disciplines.
- Experience architecting GPU compute infrastructure, distributed execution systems, or computational job orchestration.
- Strong judgment in high-impact architectural decisions and balancing technical and program requirements.
- Ability to influence technical direction across organizational boundaries and advise engineering leadership.
- Experience leading major technical initiatives and mentoring senior technical contributors.
- Familiarity with Siemens NX, Teamcenter, and comparable CAE, CAD, and PLM ecosystems.
- Preferred: 12+ years of experience in software engineering, architecture, CAE, CAD, PLM, scientific computing, or related technical domains.
- Preferred: experience integrating topology optimization, computational geometry, simulation solvers, and GPU-accelerated workloads.
- Preferred: experience designing systems combining interactive 3D visualization with asynchronous or distributed computation.
- Preferred: success improving architecture consistency, software reuse, engineering productivity, and system reliability across multiple programs.
- Preferred: experience influencing multi-year technical roadmaps and architectural investment decisions.
- Preferred: experience advising technical leaders and representing an engineering software function in customer, vendor, or cross-functional discussions.
Benefits
- Onsite, hybrid, or remote work arrangements are available.
- Competitive salary, equity plan, and discretionary results-based incentive bonus opportunities.
- Paid vacation, sick time, company holidays, year-end shutdown, and paid parental leave.
- HMO and Premium PPO health plans, company-sponsored life insurance, and short- and long-term disability coverage.
- Reimbursement opportunities for learning and development initiatives.
- Collaborative, high-performing, mission-driven work environment.
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About Divergent
Divergent designs, manufactures, and assembles structures and systems using its DAPS software-driven, additive manufacturing and automation platform. The privately held company, founded in 2014 and headquartered in Torrance, California, operates multiple adaptive factories and offers production programs and Tier 1 supply to global automotive OEMs while supporting U.S. aerospace and defense companies. Its work targets complex, lightweight, production-ready solutions across critical industrial sectors.