Physics Applications - Researcher

The Mission

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

Solving Across Space and Time

Our proven unified model architecture allows users to rapidly obtain steady state solutions of various partial differential equations. We are expanding this capability into the transient domain, modeling interactions, deformation and dynamics. These are promising applications where Vinci’s approach can not only reduce the compute load but also achieve greater accuracy.

What You Will Do

Your north star will be production and delivering value to our customers.

In this role you will leverage the Vinci framework to work on a variety of novel applications. Experiment with temporal propagation schemas, both in the classical and learned sense. You will use pre-existing data generation infrastructure to generate and curate training and verification samples. You will take modest iterative steps to prove out new utility and iterate hand in hand with customers to harden features.

You will work with Physicists, AI researchers, Software Engineers and Computational Geometry experts. You will work with a team to carry early prototypes through iteration and hardening all the way to customer use.

What We’re Looking For

Qualifications;

Have published work leveraging or building a simulation practice.

MS/MSc with 4+ years experience or

PhD with 2+ years experience

2+ years using or building physics simulators

FEM, FEA, Molecular Dynamics, FDTD

Applied machine learning approaches

Computer Vision, GraphNN, Transformer Architectures

Working knowledge of modern ML basics

back prop, loss functions, generators, embeddings, transformer models

Experience with some modern ML practices

PyTorch, Numpy, Cuda

Training & Evaluation practices

Have contributed to a production data processing system.

We are very excited to talk with you if you have

Applied ML to the problem of

Meshing geometry

Accelerating FEM or DFT simulations

Experience going from early stage prototype moving to a production environment at a Startup or National Lab

Have leveraged simulation for design or data generation purposes.

Engineering Expectations

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 model infrastructure

Why Vinci

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.

Our Mission & Impact

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 contribute to expanding our unified model architecture, which currently runs billion-voxel inference, into the transient domain—a key frontier in modeling interactions, deformation, and dynamics. Our ambition is to become the default operator intelligence layer for hardware companies.

Growth & Opportunity

This is a unique opportunity for technical and professional growth, as you will define a foundational abstraction layer early in the company's trajectory. The team is small, friendly, and accessible. You will be empowered to "own and architect large pieces of the system" alongside a team of Physicists, AI researchers, Software Engineers, and Computational Geometry experts. This includes greenfield opportunities to expand Vinci’s core capabilities.

Leadership

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.