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Backend Infrastructure Engineer

Vinci · Palo Alto HQ · Remote

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About Vinci

Run full-resolution simulations in minutes. Vinci’s foundation model for physics unites AI acceleration with verified solvers for as-built accuracy. Backed by Khosla.

About the role

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.

What they're looking for

  • 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
More about this role

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

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...

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