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Design, build, and operate the backend services and infrastructure that power the company's simulation and inference platform. Manage infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines to ensure reliable, scalable, and reproducible production deployments.
Requires 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with a strong focus on backend and infrastructure. Proficiency in Python and C++, along with hands-on experience in Terraform and CI/CD systems, is essential.
At Vinci, we are building the operator intelligence infrastructure that modern hardware programs rely on daily. We have already proven that a single foundation model works out of the box across physics on realistic production workloads.
Trained on petabytes of structured physics data
Running billion-voxel inference in production
Tier-1 semiconductor and hardware customers
Operating across multiple physical scales and operator regimes
We are scaling deployment at industrial magnitude:
Increase simulation throughput by two orders of magnitude
Expand simulation capabilities to maximize utility and domain coverage
Support global, multi-entity deployment across Tier-1 ecosystems
Our ambition is to become the default operator intelligence layer that hardware companies run on. To get there, we need the backend and infrastructure that lets our research move to production reliably, repeatably, and at scale.
Our unified model architecture delivers steady-state and transient solutions to partial differential equations at production scale. None of that reaches a customer without robust infrastructure underneath it: reproducible builds, automated pipelines, well-provisioned cloud, and code that holds up under load. This role owns that backbone. You will make our systems fast, dependable, and easy for physicists, researchers, and engineers to build on.
Your north star will be production and delivering value to our customers.
Design, build, and operate the backend services and infrastructure that power Vinci’s simulation and inference platform.
Own infrastructure-as-code with Terraform across our cloud environments, provisioning and managing services reliably and repeatably.
Build and harden CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins or equivalent) so the team can ship with confidence and strong regression coverage.
Maintain and evolve our build systems (CMake, pip/uv) across large Python and C++ codebases.
Take early prototypes through iteration and hardening all the way to customer use, in modest iterative steps.
“Close the gap” on pre-existing infrastructure where needed, and evolve core platform components as the product grows.
Partner closely with Physicists, AI researchers, Software Engineers, and Computational Geometry experts to turn research into dependable systems.
8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong focus on backend and infrastructure.
Infrastructure & cloud: hands-on Terraform experience and production work on at least one major cloud (GCP, AWS, Azure, or similar).
CI/CD: built and maintained pipelines with Jenkins or an equivalent CI system.
Build systems: comfortable with build tooling such as CMake and Python packaging via pip/uv.
Languages: proficient in Python, with working familiarity in C++.
Scale: comfortable navigating and contributing to large, multi-language codebases.
Have contributed to a production data processing or platform system.
Experience taking an early-stage prototype to a production environment, at a startup or national lab.
Exposure to frontend development.
Familiarity with 3D rendering or visualization technologies.
Experience supporting ML or scientific-computing workloads (PyTorch, NumPy, CUDA, GPU infrastructure).
Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and observability tooling.
Strong software engineering fundamentals; comfortable meeting software design standards to get code into a production environment.
Capable of leveraging pre-existing infrastructure and “closing the gap” on occasion.
Strong CI, regression testing, and validation discipline.
Comfort evolving core platform and model infrastructure.
Join a rare early-stage startup that has successfully moved a foundational product from research to real-world, production environments, already serving Tier-1 semiconductor and hardware customers.
Vinci is building the operator intelligence infrastructure that modern hardware programs rely on daily. We are scaling our solution to accelerate design validation from hours to seconds. You will build the infrastructure that lets our unified model architecture—currently running billion-voxel inference—scale and expand into the transient domain, a key frontier in modeling interactions, deformation, and dynamics.
This is a unique opportunity for technical and professional growth. You will help define a foundational abstraction layer early in the company’s trajectory. The team is small, friendly, and accessible, and you will be empowered to own and architect large pieces of the system alongside Physicists, AI researchers, Software Engineers, and Computational Geometry experts, including greenfield opportunities to expand Vinci’s core capabilities.
You will work with spectacular technical leaders like CTO Sarah Osentoski and CEO Hardik Kabaria, whose vision is to greatly accelerate physics simulations with ML while retaining solver-grade accuracy.
A frontier lab building the foundation model for the physical world, already deployed in flagship engineering programs.
Vinci is a frontier lab building the foundation model for the physical world. The company is developing deterministic, solver-grounded systems that make physics continuously computable, shifting engineering from episodic simulation to continuous physics infrastructure. Already deployed inside production engineering workflows and running on flagship programs, Vinci operates directly on native design and manufacturing geometry to enable high-fidelity physics reasoning without the traditional burden of manual setup, meshing, and specialist-only access. Rather than functioning as a faster point tool, Vinci changes the operating model of engineering by making physics more available, more repeatable, and more actionable across the organization. Its systems support design, verification, manufacturing, and reliability decisions, helping teams evaluate more scenarios, surface physical risk earlier, and improve engineering leverage without scaling specialist simulation teams linearly. Vinci’s broader aim is to make physics a shared reasoning layer for designing, building, and operating the physical world.
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