# Member of Technical Staff - Thermal Simulation Engineer at Vinci

- Company: Vinci
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://www.getvinci.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Palo Alto HQ
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $150K to $210K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-06
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/vinci/95793b8a-782e-4e71-95ab-cebc022a05f3
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/vinci-member-of-technical-staff-thermal-simulation-engineer/

## About the role

Validate new solvers and methods: build test cases that stress steady-state and transient conduction, convection, and thermoelastic stress and warpage, and benchmark them against competitor FEA tools and measured data. Help set the accuracy bar for release, and say so when it isn't met.

## What they're looking for

- BS or higher in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, or a comparably rigorous technical field
- 3+ years in thermal or simulation engineering, graduate research counts
- Hands-on thermal or thermo-mechanical CFD/FEA in Ansys Icepak, Flotherm, Fluent, Ansys Mechanical, COMSOL, or equivalent, including a working sense of where each tool's results degrade
- Ability to reason from first principles: when a result looks wrong, to determine whether the cause is the physics, the boundary conditions, the geometry, or the software
- CAD fluency: opening, navigating, interrogating, and repairing real geometry in mechanical CAD, ECAD, or package layout
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain a result and its limits to a principal thermal engineer and to a VP in the same meeting, and to build the plots and slides yourself

Tags: Engineering