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Vinci4d
Palo Alto, California, United States
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We are building an AI assistant for hardware design. Our product helps engineers explore, analyze, and optimize hardware systems, integrating cutting-edge AI with the realities of engineering design workflows.
Role Summary
Hands-on technical role spanning validation, training data, and customers. Vinci's physics foundation model produces solver-accurate thermal results on full-resolution hardware — real geometry, nanometer-scale features, no simplification — across conduction, convection, and thermoelasticity.
You'll prove that case by case: validating new solvers and methods against competitor FEA tools and measured data, generating the reference cases that train the model, running customer test cases end to end, and bringing what you learn back to research and product as feature definition. The ideal candidate has a strong thermal simulation foundation, reasons from first principles, and is comfortable presenting a result to a customer's thermal engineers who will not take your word for it.
You'll work on semiconductor and advanced packaging hardware first — AI accelerators, chiplet assemblies, high-power boards — then robotics, electric vehicles, power electronics, aerospace, and defense as those customers come on.
You'll work directly with the researchers and GPU kernel engineers building the model, not through a support tier.
Customers use these results for production sign-off, so validation calls carry real consequence.
Location
We're in Palo Alto, CA near the Caltrain station, working 2–3 days a week in person. We hire remote for the right person — members of the team already work this way. Travel is occasional.
Reports to the Founding Mechanical Engineer, who reports to the CTO.
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