Freeform
Simulation Engineer
About this role
Freeform seeks a Simulation Engineer to develop physics-based numerical models for automated metal 3D printing systems. You'll create high-performance solvers for laser powder bed fusion processes, optimizing them for GPU and HPC platforms while collaborating across software and control engineering teams.
What you'll do
- Develop numerical solvers for simulating metal 3D printing physics
- Implement real-time simulation models optimized for GPU and HPC execution
- Integrate low-level solvers into simulation pipelines and hardware systems
- Guide computational geometry and meshing techniques for large-scale physics simulations
- Architect simulation modules for FPGAs and GPUs
- Support model-predictive control strategy development with control engineers
What they're looking for
- Numerical solver development
- C, C++, or CUDA programming
- GPU and high-performance computing
- Solid mechanics or continuum mechanics
- Direct numerical simulation (DNS)
- Computational geometry and meshing
- Data-driven modeling and hybrid physics/data methods
- Thermo-elastic or thermo-elastoplastic modeling
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Freeform
Freeform builds autonomous metal 3D printing factories powered by AI-native manufacturing systems, creating integrated platforms that handle production-scale operations with advanced controls and physics-based optimization. The company is hiring embedded software engineers, full-stack software engineers, simulation engineers, and process engineers to develop the core software, hardware systems, and manufacturing processes enabling automated metal additive manufacturing at scale.
View all jobs at FreeformLikely interview questions
- Walk us through your experience developing low-level numerical solvers for physical simulations. What was the most complex multi-physics problem you've solved?
- Describe your experience optimizing simulations for GPU or HPC environments. What performance bottlenecks have you encountered and how did you address them?