Senior Software Engineer - AI Workbench

About us PhysicsX is a deep-tech company with roots in numerical physics and Formula One, dedicated to accelerating hardware innovation at the speed of software. We are building an AI-driven simulation software stack for engineering and manufacturing across advanced industries. By enabling high-fidelity, multi-physics simulation through AI inference across the entire engineering lifecycle, PhysicsX unlocks new levels of optimization and automation in design, manufacturing, and operations — empowering engineers to push the boundaries of possibility. Our customers include leading innovators in Aerospace & Defense, Materials, Energy, Semiconductors, and Automotive. The Role PhysicsX is building a platform that enables Data Scientists and Simulation Engineers to build, train, and deploy Deep Physics Models. The platform handles massive volumes of complex simulation data and enables high-fidelity multi-physics simulation through AI inference. We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer with a strong background in building data platforms. You won't just be moving data from A to B - you'll be architecting and building the distributed systems, services, and APIs that form the backbone of our platform. You'll bridge the gap between complex physical simulations and modern data infrastructure, implementing storage solutions for AI/ML pipelines and creating the analytical layers that allow our engineers to visualise and understand their results. As a senior engineer, you'll shape technical direction by authoring Technical Decision Records, mentoring less experienced engineers, and driving the standards that keep our platform reliable, secure, and performant. This role is for builders who love coding robust software as much as designing efficient data architectures. What You Will Do Design and architect scalable distributed systems, microservices, and APIs for high-dimensional simulation data across the machine learning lifecycle — from data processing and model training to inference services. Build and maintain systems that execute user-submitted code safely, robustly, and securely — including sandboxing, resource isolation, and access controls. Build tools that enable data scientists and engineers to create automated, robust pipelines for data ingestion and processing — powering active learning loops. Build interoperable no-code and pro-code tools for enterprise users with varying skill levels. Architect and integrate modern Data Warehouses, Data Lakes, and high-performance storage solutions to handle the unique demands of complex simulations, multimodal data and deep learning workloads. Build internal tools that enable BI dashboards and scientific data visualizations, making large datasets intuitive and accessible. Define system architecture for new capabilities, making trade-offs across performance, reliability, cost, and developer experience. Own your work end-to-end — from architectural design through deployment and maintenance in a fast-paced, agile environment. Define reliability guarantees, quality of service metrics, and performance standards for the services you own. Proactively diagnose and resolve complex performance bottlenecks. Develop and enforce API schema standards and schema drift mitigation strategies. Ensure compliance with established patterns for security, data segregation, and access control. Drive best practices in CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and infrastructure-as-code. Build and maintain deployment pipelines, including zero-downtime and multi-service deployments. Author and review Technical Decision Records. Participate in Technology Radar reviews to evaluate and adopt new tools and approaches. Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, facilitate technical discussions, build consensus around architectural decisions, and translate research needs into well-defined technical requirements. Influence engineering roadmap and contribute to technical strategy beyond your immediate team. What you bring to the table A passion for the craft   — you're driven by engineering excellence and committed to fostering that culture across the team. Strong software engineering foundations   — solid grasp of algorithms, data structures, and system design. You write clean, maintainable, testable code and have strong command of Golang or Rust and Python. Distributed systems and data engineering experience   — proven track record building big data processing platforms in production, moving beyond scripting to robust engineering solutions (e.g., Databricks/Delta Lake, Snowflake, BigQuery). Hands-on experience architecting Data Warehouses and Data Lakes. API and service design maturity   — experience designing multi-service systems with attention to schema governance, forward compatibility, and data access patterns. User code execution   — experience building systems that run user code safely, robustly, and securely, with an understanding of sandboxing,