Since the start of October over 100 roles from have been added to the CDFAM job board: The board now carries over 600 live listings. The job market in these domains is heating up.
AI Vendors Are Hiring Engineers to Sit With Customers
Mistral AI listed 11 roles covering physics models, crashworthiness, agentic engineering and robotics, based in Paris and seven other European cities, plus Singapore, Melbourne and Sydney. Neural Concept listed 16 across Lausanne, Munich, London, Paris and both US coasts.
Six of these carry the title forward deployed engineer and another six are solutions engineers or deployment strategists.
The headcount is going into getting the model to work inside a customer’s engineering process, not just software development.
Mistral AI: AI Scientist, Physics Models (Paris, Amsterdam, Linz, Munich, London or Berlin)
Mistral AI: AI Deployment Strategist, Industrial Engineering and Physics, APAC (Singapore, Melbourne or Sydney)
Neural Concept: VP of Engineering (Lausanne)
Neural Concept: Forward Deployed Engineer (Munich)
PhysicsX: Machine Learning Engineer (San Francisco)
Faber AI: Founding Geometry Engineer (Paris)
Foundation EGI: Research Software Engineer, Simulation Algorithms and Geometry Processing (Remote, US)
Robotics Is Production Infrastructure
Divergent listed 13 roles in Los Angeles and Torrance, most of them in robotics software, simulation and AI, with a CAE/PLM architect and structures engineers alongside. Machina Labs is hiring a robotic process engineer for aerospace and defense work, Figure AI needs a structures engineer for robot hands, and Hyperion Robotics in Finland is hiring a senior structural engineer.
Divergent: Staff Software Architect, Robotics and AI (Torrance, CA)
Divergent: CAE/PLM Architect, Design (Los Angeles)
Machina Labs: Robotic Process Engineer, Aerospace and Defense (Chatsworth, CA)
Figure AI: Mechanical Engineer, Structures, Robot Hands (San Jose)
Hyperion Robotics: Senior Structural Engineer (Espoo, Finland)
Architecture Practices Are Filling Senior Design Technology Posts
BIG is hiring a Head of Design Technology in Copenhagen. BVN wants a Design Technology Lead in Sydney or Brisbane, BDP a computational designer in London, and ICON a senior software engineer for computational geometry and BIM in Austin. The Chinese University of Hong Kong is recruiting a Research Assistant Professor in Digital Technology and Computational Design.
Bjarke Ingels Group: Head of Design Technology (Copenhagen)
BVN: Design Technology Lead (Sydney or Brisbane)
BDP: Computational Designer/Architect (London)
ICON: Senior Software Engineer, Computational Geometry and BIM (Austin)
The Chinese University of Hong Kong: Research Assistant Professor, Digital Technology and Computational Design (Hong Kong)
Eckersley O’Callaghan: Graduate Facade Engineer (Milan)
Aerospace Structures and Propulsion
Eight aerospace listings in October. Hermeus, K2 Space, JetZero and BETA Technologies are hiring for structures and propulsion, Ursa Major for solid rocket motor case design, and Rocket Factory Augsburg for an orbital stage development engineer. Varda has a summer 2027 structures internship open.
Hermeus: Senior Structures Engineer (Los Angeles)
K2 Space: Senior Propulsion Mechanical Design Engineer (Los Angeles)
Ursa Major: Staff Design Engineer, Solid Rocket Motor Cases (Berthoud, CO)
JetZero: Senior Structural Analysis Engineer (Long Beach, Greensboro, Wichita or Montreal)
BETA Technologies: Structural Engineer, Propulsion (South Burlington, VT)
Rocket Factory Augsburg: Development Engineer, Orbital Stage (Augsburg)
Varda Space Industries: Structures Engineering Internship, Summer 2027 (El Segundo, CA)
Doctoral and Postdoctoral Positions
ETH Zurich has a doctoral position in generative AI-based computational design methods for engineering design. Oxford has a DPhil on inflatable and multistable mechanical metamaterials, KTH a postdoc in ICME for electron beam powder bed fusion, Michigan a research associate post in computational design and digital fabrication, and TU Delft a researcher post on a computational design workflow for 3D printed footwear.
ETH Zurich: Doctoral Position, Generative AI-Based Computational Design Methods for Engineering Design (Zurich)
University of Oxford: DPhil Studentship, Inflatable and Multistable Mechanical Metamaterials (Oxford)
KTH Royal Institute of Technology: Postdoc, ICME for Electron Beam Powder Bed Fusion (Stockholm)
University of Michigan, Taubman College: Research Associate, Computational Design and Digital Fabrication (Ann Arbor)
TU Delft: Researcher, Computational Design Workflow for 3D Printed Footwear (Delft)
Computational Design in Consumer and Luxury Goods
Tiffany & Co. is hiring a computational designer in New York. Oura wants a senior digital sculptor in Helsinki, Estée Lauder a modeling and simulation fellow in Long Island City, Rhone a senior manager of digital technical design in Stamford, and Nike a lead computational capabilities engineer in Beaverton. Jewelry, rings, cosmetics and apparel now carry simulation headcount.
Tiffany & Co.: Computational Designer (New York)
Oura: Senior Digital Sculptor (Helsinki)
The Estée Lauder Companies: Fellow, Modeling and Simulation (Long Island City, NY)
Rhone: Senior Manager, Digital Technical Design (Stamford, CT)
Nike: Lead Computational Capabilities Engineer (Beaverton, OR)
Also Listed
Nature Architects: Mechanical Design Engineer (Tokyo, listing in Japanese)
Braid Technologies: Senior Researcher, Geometry Processing (Tokyo)
Synera: Integration Developer, PLM and CAD (Remote, Germany)
Spherene: Head of Product (Zurich)
Corintis: Senior Computational Optimisation Engineer (Lausanne)
Lumafield: Senior Mechanical Engineer (Boston)
GE Vernova: Lead Additive Manufacturing Engineer (Greenville, SC)
Anduril Industries: Principal CMF Designer, Warfighter Systems (Bellevue, WA)
COMSOL: Applications Engineer, CFD (Bengaluru)
Many of These Companies Present at CDFAM
Neural Concept, PhysicsX, Synera, Spherene, BIG, Nike and Nature Architects have presented at CDFAM, and many of the others attend.
Recordings and transcripts are on cdfam.com. The board and the symposium draw on the same people.
CDFAM 2027
The 2027 program is set.
Barcelona: April 7-8, 2027, Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB)
NYC: July 14-15, 2027, Newlab, Brooklyn Navy Yard, presented with the support of PTC
Tokyo: October 4-5, 2027, Tokyo International Forum
Submissions for technical presentations and case studies from industry, academia and software developers are open for all three editions.
Barcelona submissions close January 1, 2027.
Supporting sponsor opportunities are available on request.
Early bird registration for Barcelona is 600 euros until January 1, 2027, after which the standard rate of 900 euros applies.
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