Divergent

CAE/PLM Architect (Design)

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1 day ago
Torrance, CA, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$171k - $314k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Architect and design high-performing interactive 3D desktop and web CAE applications for the DES suite.
  • Architect scalable GPU job architecture for clustered GPUs.
  • Implement core application frameworks and delegate development across the engineering team.
  • Provide hands-on technical leadership to accelerate complex desktop application development.
  • Ensure industrial-grade quality, usability, and performance across desktop tools.
  • Align application architecture with DES organizational strategy and reduce risks from fragmented ownership.
  • Mentor engineers on desktop application best practices.
  • Partner with DES and Platform IPT leadership on long-term computational-design goals.

Requirements

  • Senior Principal-level experience in desktop software architecture.
  • Deep demonstrated experience creating high-performing interactive 3D desktop applications, preferably in CAE, PLM, or engineering software.
  • Proven ability to architect complex systems and delegate implementation across engineering teams.
  • Strong understanding of graphics and 3D rendering pipelines, UI architecture, and desktop software engineering.
  • Familiarity with Siemens NX, Teamcenter, and CAE desktop ecosystems.
  • Ability to lawfully access information and technology subject to US export controls.
  • Preferred: 10+ years of industrial or CAE application development.
  • Preferred: experience with GPU compute and scheduling.
  • Preferred: experience integrating topology optimization, computational geometry, or CAE solvers into interactive desktop tools.
  • Preferred: experience building software used at scale by mechanical or research engineers.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary, equity plan, and discretionary results-based incentive bonus opportunities.
  • Paid vacation, sick time, company holidays, and a year-end shutdown.
  • Paid parental leave.
  • HMO and Premium PPO health plans, company-sponsored life insurance, and short- and long-term disability coverage.
  • Learning and development reimbursement opportunities.
  • Onsite work arrangement.

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About Divergent

501-1,000 employees

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.

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