Senior Machine Learning Software Engineer, Research

About us

Re-architecting Engineering for the Age of Intelligence

PhysicsX is the physics AI company for industrials. The company’s mission is to accelerate hardware innovation by overhauling what industrial engineering and manufacturing look like today. PhysicsX is building a new simulation software stack to deliver deep physics AI enablement across the entire engineering lifecycle. The company partners with leading organisations in aerospace & defence, automotive, semiconductors, materials, and energy & renewables, supporting them on some of their most critical and complex challenges. PhysicsX is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with offices in London, New York, and Singapore and an expanding presence in the Bay Area.

Note: We are currently recruiting for multiple positions across different levels, however please only apply for the role that best aligns with your skillset and career goals.

What you will do

Own the training stack end to end: experiment harness, sweeps, distributed training, checkpointing, and throughput.

Implement and optimise model architectures with efficiency perspective: sparse attention and convolution, custom kernels, memory and precision work, and making a prototype fast enough to train at scale.

Take architectural ideas from prototype to trained model, and own the ablations that establish whether a change actually helped.

Set technical direction for the training stack, and build the inference and evaluation path that turns a checkpoint into something usable.

Identify engineering investments that unlock research progress.

What you bring to the table

Senior-level experience in training machine learning models at scale, in industry or a research group of comparable intensity, instrumental in:

distributed training with FSDP or equivalent, including profiling and diagnosing idle GPUs;

PyTorch and CUDA at depth, ideally including sparse convolution or sparse attention internals and custom CUDA or Triton kernels;

implementing architectures from papers and making them work, then making them fast;

reproducible experiment infrastructure, because most of the compute in a programme like this is spent on runs that fail.

Experience with 3D or other irregular data: meshes, point clouds, voxels, sparse tensors.

Ability to scope and deliver projects, and strong problem-solving skills.

Degree in CS, engineering, mathematics, physics or a related field. A PhD is welcome but not required; engineering depth matters more.

Desirable: open-source contributions, public technical writing, or papers at MLSys, SIGGRAPH or CVPR

What we offer

Build what actually matters

Help shape an AI-native engineering company at a formative stage, tackling problems that genuinely matter for industry and society. This is work with real-world impact - and something you can be proud to stand behind.

Learn alongside exceptional people

Work with a high-caliber, collaborative team of engineers, scientists, and operators who care deeply about doing great work, and about helping each other get better. We come from diverse backgrounds, but we share a commitment to operating at the highest level and addressing some of the most complex challenges out there. If you’re ambitious, thoughtful, and driven by impact, you’ll feel at home.

Influence over hierarchy

We operate with a flat structure: good ideas win - wherever they come from. Questioning assumptions and challenging the status quo isn’t just welcomed, it’s expected.

Sustainable pace, long-term ambition

Building meaningful technology is a marathon, not a sprint. We believe in balancing focused, ambitious work with a life beyond it. Our hybrid model blends time together in our Shoreditch office with work-from-home days, giving you the flexibility to work sustainably while staying connected in person.

And it doesn’t stop there …

🚀 Equity options - share meaningfully in the company you’re helping to build.

🏦 10% employer pension contribution - because investing in future matters.

🍽️ Free office lunches - to keep you energised and focused.

👶 Enhanced parental leave - 3 months full pay paternity and 6 months full pay maternity leave, to provide extra flexibility during the moments that matter most.

🍼 YellowNest nursery scheme - to help working parents manage childcare costs.

☀️ 25 days of Annual Leave (+ Public Holidays) - because taking time to rest matters.

🏥 Private medical insurance - 100% employee cover, giving you complete peace of mind.

💪 Wellhub Subscription - gain access to thousands of gyms, classes and wellness apps, supporting both physical and mental wellbeing.

👀 Eye tests - because good work depends on good health.

📈 Personal development - dedicated support for learning, development, and leveling up over time.

💛 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) - confidential wellbeing support, available whenever you need it.

🚲 Bike2Work scheme and 🚆 Season ticket loan - to make getting to work easier and greener.

🚗 Octopus EV salary sacrifice - for a simpler, more sustainable way to drive electric.

🔎 Watch this space, we’re continuing to build this as we grow…

We value diversity and are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, religion, ethnicity, nationality, disability, age, sexual orientation or gender identity. We strongly encourage individuals from groups traditionally underrepresented in tech to apply. To help make a change, we sponsor bright women from disadvantaged backgrounds through their university degrees in science and mathematics.

We collect diversity and inclusion data solely for the purpose of monitoring the effectiveness of our equal opportunities policies and ensuring compliance with employment and equality legislation. This information is confidential, used only in aggregate form, and will not influence the outcome of your application.