Location: Mooresville, NC (In-Office at Lake Norman Campus)
Target Compensation: $85,000 - $135,000 OTE (On-Target Earnings = Base Salary + Quarterly Technical Comp + Annual Bonus)
Work Authorization: U.S. Persons Only
Corvid HPC is seeking an HPC/CAE Applications Engineer passionate about computational physics, simulation workflows, and HPC. Instead of being confined to narrow component analysis or single-solver loops, this role opens the door to a varied, rewarding, and lucrative career path. Sitting at the intersection of bare-metal supercomputing and advanced simulation, you will apply your computational background to solve diverse engineering challenges alongside the world's most innovative companies.
What You Will Do- HPC Execution & Troubleshooting: Diagnose and resolve runtime solver errors, custom scripting bottlenecks, GUI/remote desktop integration issues, and job scheduling hurdles across high-core-count clusters.
- Client Workflow Enablement & Customer Onboarding: Partner with client engineering teams across industries to onboard CAE models, optimize hardware selection, and streamline large-scale simulation execution.
- Workflow Automation: Build and maintain custom Python and Bash scripts to automate parametric sweeps, optimization loops, and multi-physics simulation pipelines.
- Customer Benchmarks & Scaling Studies: Execute technical benchmarks and scaling studies to demonstrate speedups to prospective/current clients and evaluate new server hardware architectures.
What This Role IS NOT: This is not a traditional design or analysis position. While you work with complex models daily, owning component designs or running routine single-part loops isn't a day-to-day responsibility. Your focus is solving HPC-level execution, scaling, and automation challenges.
Requirements- B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Computational Physics, or a related STEM field.
- Academic focus or upper-level coursework in computational physics or continuum mechanics disciplines (e.g., fluid dynamics, aerodynamics, heat transfer, solid mechanics, or finite element methods).
- Hands-on CAE experience (CFD or FEA) gained through Professional roles, Internships, Senior Design / Capstone projects, collegiate engineering teams (e.g., Formula SAE, Baja SAE) or other.
- Basic coding/scripting experience (Python or Bash) and/or familiarity with command-line Linux environments.
- Must be a U.S. Person.
Preferred Skills- M.S. or Ph.D. in Engineering or related STEM field.
- 3 to 5 years of relevant engineering or computational simulation experience.
- Proven team leadership and sustained commitment in collective group environments (e.g., athletic team captain, marching band / performing arts leadership, ROTC, volunteer fire/EMS, FSAE/Baja sub-team lead, student organization executive, Eagle Scout / Gold Award, or community service leadership).
- Demonstrated experience working with multiple commercial or open-source solvers (e.g., Ansys Fluent/Mechanical, Abaqus, LS-DYNA, STAR-CCM+, NASTRAN, OpenFOAM, or specialized hydrocodes).
- Prior experience submitting, monitoring, or managing jobs through HPC schedulers (e.g., Slurm, PBS, LSF).
- Broad IT & Systems Savvy: General literacy across Windows, Linux administration concepts, and basic networking fundamentals-a strong technical curiosity that bridges the gap between pure engineering and IT infrastructure.
- Demonstrated experience building or compiling computational software packages in a Linux/HPC environment (e.g., compiling open-source solvers, custom solver extensions, C/Fortran user-defined functions, CMake/Makefiles).
- Exposure to web or database development tools (e.g., Python web frameworks, REST APIs, SQL, Streamlit/Dash, Open OnDemand).
- Curiosity or experience with next-generation computational workflows, surrogate modeling, Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs), or AI-assisted physics tools.
How to ApplyWhen submitting your application,
please highlight your hands-on CAE project experience (Senior Design, FSAE, Baja, internships, current/past industry work) and any team leadership roles directly on your resume or application note.
