Location
Torrance, California, United States; onsite, hybrid, or remote work arrangements are available. Ability to lawfully access information and technology subject to U.S. export controls is required.
Salary
$171,450–$314,390 USD annually. Level-specific ranges: E07 / Principal Engineer $171,450–$235,740; E08 / Senior Principal Engineer $197,990–$272,240; E09 / Technical Fellow $228,650–$314,390.
Company
Divergent develops integrated engineering and manufacturing systems for automotive, aerospace, defense, and other demanding industrial applications.
What you will do
•Define and execute architecture for interactive 3D desktop and web-based CAE applications across multiple programs and product areas.
•Establish shared application frameworks, architecture standards, reusable capabilities, and technical decision frameworks.
•Lead scalable GPU compute orchestration, clustered GPU job scheduling, resource management, and distributed computational workflows.
•Resolve complex architectural, graphics, UI, platform integration, and cross-system dependencies while improving scalability, performance, reliability, maintainability, and extensibility.
•Guide technical roadmaps, architecture reviews, technology investments, and major design decisions across DES and Platform.
•Mentor senior and staff engineers and represent the function in discussions with engineering leadership, platform stakeholders, customers, and vendors.
Requirements
•Ability to lawfully access information and technology subject to U.S. export controls.
•Extensive experience defining software architecture for complex desktop applications, CAE systems, engineering platforms, or comparable industrial software.
•Demonstrated expertise in interactive 3D application architecture, graphics rendering, UI frameworks, and high-performance software systems.
•Experience defining and executing technical strategies across multiple projects, programs, or product areas.
•Experience developing shared software frameworks, architectural standards, and reusable platform capabilities adopted across teams.
•Ability to solve unique, complex technical problems spanning multiple systems or engineering disciplines.
•Experience architecting GPU compute infrastructure, distributed execution systems, or computational job orchestration.
•Strong judgment in high-impact architectural decisions and balancing competing technical and program requirements.
•Ability to influence technical direction across organizational boundaries, advise engineering leadership, lead major technical initiatives, mentor senior technical contributors, and make architecture decisions.
•Familiarity with Siemens NX, Teamcenter, and comparable CAE, CAD, and PLM ecosystems.
Nice to have
•12+ years of experience in software engineering, architecture, CAE, CAD, PLM, scientific computing, or related technical domains.
•Experience defining architecture across multiple engineering applications, platforms, or product areas.
•Experience integrating topology optimization, computational geometry, simulation solvers, and GPU-accelerated workloads into engineering software.
•Experience designing systems that combine interactive 3D visualization with asynchronous or distributed computation.
•Success improving architecture consistency, software reuse, engineering productivity, and system reliability across multiple programs.
•Experience influencing multi-year technical roadmaps and architectural investment decisions, advising technical leaders, and representing an engineering software function in customer, vendor, or cross-functional technical discussions.
Culture & Benefits
•Collaborative, dynamic, high-performing, fast-paced, and mission-driven environment.
•Competitive salary, equity plan, and discretionary results-based incentive bonus opportunities.
•Paid vacation, sick time, company holidays, year-end shutdown, and paid parental leave.
•HMO and Premium PPO health plans, company-sponsored life insurance, and short- and long-term disability coverage.
•Learning and development reimbursement opportunities.
•Equal employment opportunity employer with E-Verify participation.
