Forward Deployed Engineer, Physics & Simulation

The role

You will own simulation workflows end-to-end for customer engagements. You will build and calibrate physics-based simulations and work on-site with customer engineering teams to drive recipe optimization.

What you will do

• Own the simulation workflow end-to-end for customer engagements
• Run, debug and modify physics-based simulations of complex physical processes
• Work on-site with customer engineering teams to understand process constraints
• Write tools, skills and agents to drive end-to-end LLM-based simulation workflows
• Build and extend simulation tooling in Python
• Feed domain insights back to the research and product teams

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or similar experience
• Strong foundation in numerical simulation of continuum systems such as fluid dynamics, heat transfer, structural mechanics, or electromagnetics
• Hands-on experience solving partial differential equations numerically
• Solid Python skills for scripting and scientific computing
• Strong communication skills
• Willingness to spend extended periods on-site in Taiwan

Nice to have

• CFD background, including tools like OpenFOAM, ANSYS Fluent, Star-CCM+, or custom solvers
• Grad-level research experience building simulation software
• Familiar with semiconductor manufacturing processes
• Familiarity with physics-informed ML, surrogate modeling, or neural operators
• Experience integrating simulation tools into larger software platforms or automated optimization pipelines
• Mandarin proficiency
• Lab or experimental background

Before you apply

• We sponsor visas

About the company

Periodic Labs is an AI and physical sciences company building state-of-the-art models to accelerate breakthroughs across materials, energy, and beyond.