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Principal Thermo-Mechanical Engineer- Paris/Grenoble

Vinci

About Us

We are building Physics AI for hardware design . Our software platform helps hardware designers and physics simulation engineers explore, analyze, and optimize hardware systems, leveraging cutting-edge AI to deliver ultrafast, accurate physics intelligence within the realities of engineering design workflows.

Our first product bridges the gap between the accuracy & determinism of traditional simulation and the speed & scaling of AI, and is redefining how the world’s most advanced semiconductors are designed, verified, built, brought to market and integrated in complex systems.

Role Overview

As a pivotal leader within our European Forward Deployment team , you will drive the adoption of Vinci’s platform among the region's top engineering organizations. In this strategic role, you will build, mentor, and guide a high-performing team of thermal engineers dedicated to engaging prospective customers and demonstrating our software’s transformative value.

As trusted technical advisors , you and your team will use deep simulation expertise to help enterprise customers validate and optimize complex, real-world designs . Through these collaborative engagements, you will champion Vinci's value proposition by showing how our platform delivers systemic improvements in thermal performance, product reliability, and time-to-market.

Leveraging strong fundamentals in continuum mechanics , you will guide analyses of complex physical phenomena, including linear, geometric and material nonlinearities, and contact interactions. Your team will evaluate critical factors such as warpage, stress evolution, thermal cycling, and reliability across advanced semiconductor devices, electronics packages, and wafer-scale systems.

You will work closely with customer engineering teams to understand their technical challenges, provide expert guidance, and clearly articulate Vinci’s capabilities in solving real-world problems. You will also serve as a key feedback channel t o product and engineering teams, translating customer insights into actionable inputs that shape product direction and drive continuous improvement.

This is a remote role, with close collaboration with Sales, Product, and Engineering in Palo Alto, CA, USA. The role includes moderate travel , primarily within continental Europe. Some infrequent intercontinental travel may be required for discussions and collaboration with the US team .

Responsibilities

  • Build, lead, and scale a high-performing team of thermo-mechanical engineers , setting the technical direction, hiring, mentoring team members, and driving field execution across Europe.
  • Collaborate closely with the sales team to lead technical discussions, scope proof-of-concept (PoC) evaluations, and deliver compelling product demonstrations to prospective enterprise customers.
  • Guide customer engineering teams through the evaluation phase by overseeing simulation setup, running complex test cases, and interpreting results to explicitly prove Vinci’s technical and business value.
  • Own customer enablement through onboarding, deployment pipeline and account expansion , providing senior technical guidance, structured training sessions, and advanced troubleshooting.
  • Provide product guidance and feedback, identify customer pain points and workflow bottlenecks , partnering directly with internal product and engineering teams to transform field feedback into critical new product features.
  • Represent Vinci at major industry conferences and semiconductor events , engaging technically with key prospects and partners through technical presentations and live platform demonstrations.
  • Maintain a strong understanding of competitive technologies, industry trends, and market positioning to communicate Vinci’s differentiators effectively.

Qualifications (Minimum Qualifications)

  • Education: Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a closely related technical field.
  • Technical depth: Expert-level mastery of commercial simulation software (Asys, Abaqus, or equivalent), with 15+ years of hands-on experience in thermo-mechanical simulations— either as a practitioner running simulations or as a technical account manager for commercial physics simulation software.
  • Industry Domain: Deep familiarity with semiconductor electronics packaging, advanced packaging technologies (e.g., 2.5D/3D IC), or foundry ecosystems.
  • Customer Engagement: Prior experience in dedicated customer-facing roles, with a strong ability to build trust and manage engineering client relationships.
  • Automation & Scripting: Practical programming experience using Python or C++ to automate workflows or parse simulation data.
  • Leadership Impact: Proven track record of prior managerial or technical leadership experience, with the ability to scale, mentor, and drive execution across engineering teams.
  • Communication: Elite interpersonal and communication skills, with a proven ability to distill complex physics and simulation results into clear, high-impact narratives for both deep technical panels and business-oriented executives.

Preferred (Desirable Differentiators)

  • Multiphysics Breadth: Familiarity with thermal solutions management and/or Electrical Signal Integrity and Power Integrity (SI/PI) workflows.
  • Commercial Track Record: Direct experience commercializing technical software—ideally electronic design automation (EDA) or CAE simulation tools—into major semiconductor and electronics enterprises.
  • Go-To-Market Experience: Prior experience explicitly within technical pre-sales, application engineering (FAE), or strategic technical sales environments.
  • Emerging Tech Adjacency: Ability to rapidly adopt and champion next-generation, physics-based workflows and AI-assisted design or simulation tools.

Why Join Us

  • Not just use AI; be part of a team actively redefining how next-generation silicon and hardware are architected.
  • Work at the absolute convergence of state-of-the-art AI models, fundamental physics, and high-stakes enterprise
  • Collaborate with world-class engineers and researchers in a fast-moving startup environment.Ingénieur / Ingénieure principal/e en thermomécanique (H/F) — Paris/Grenoble

À propos de Vinci

Vinci développe une IA fondée sur la physique (Physics AI) pour la conception de systèmes hardware. Notre plateforme donne aux équipes de conception et de simulation des prédictions physiques précises, obtenues en une fraction du temps d'une simulation classique, et qui s'intègrent à leurs outils existants.

C'est la première solution à offrir à la fois la rigueur de la simulation traditionnelle et la vitesse de l'IA. Elle transforme la façon dont les semi-conducteurs les plus avancés au monde sont conçus, vérifiés, fabriqués, mis sur le marché et intégrés dans des systèmes complexes.

Présentation du poste

En tant que membre clé de notre équipe européenne de Forward Deployment, vous jouerez un rôle déterminant dans l'adoption de la plateforme Vinci par les principales organisations d'ingénierie de la région. Dans ce rôle stratégique, vous constituerez, accompagnerez et dirigerez une équipe performante de spécialistes en ingénierie thermique, chargée d'accompagner nos clients et prospects et de démontrer concrètement la valeur de notre logiciel.

En tant que référent technique de confiance auprès de nos clients, vous et votre équipe mettrez à profit votre expertise approfondie en simulation pour aider nos clients industriels à valider et optimiser des conceptions complexes dans des conditions représentatives de leurs applications réelles. À travers ces collaborations, vous démontrerez comment la plateforme Vinci permet d'améliorer les performances thermiques et la fiabilité des produits, tout en accélérant les cycles de conception et la mise sur le marché.

Grâce à votre solide maîtrise de la mécanique des milieux continus, vous guiderez l'analyse de phénomènes physiques complexes : comportements linéaires, non-linéarités géométriques et matérielles, et interactions de contact. Votre équipe aidera les clients à évaluer des paramètres critiques tels que le warpage, l'évolution des contraintes, le cyclage thermique et la fiabilité, sur des composants semi-conducteurs avancés, des packages électroniques et des systèmes à l'échelle du wafer.

Vous travaillerez en étroite collaboration avec les équipes d'ingénierie de nos clients afin de comprendre leurs problématiques techniques, de leur apporter une expertise approfondie et de démontrer clairement comment Vinci peut répondre à leurs cas d'usage concrets. Vous jouerez également un rôle essential d'interface entre les clients et nos équipes Product et Engineering, en transformant les retours du terrain en informations exploitables pour orienter la feuille de route produit et contribuer à l'amélioration continue de la plateforme.

Ce poste est basé en France et exercé en télétravail, avec une collaboration étroite avec les équipes Sales, Product et Engineering basées à Palo Alto, en Californie. Il implique des déplacements réguliers mais modérés, principalement en Europe continentale, ainsi que des déplacements occasionnels aux États-Unis pour collaborer avec l'équipe américaine.

Responsabilites

  • Construire, diriger et développer une équipe performante d'ingénieur/es en thermomécanique, en définissant l'orientation technique, en recrutant et accompagnant les membres de l'équipe, et en pilotant l'exécution sur le terrain à travers l'Europe.
  • Collaborer étroitement avec l'équipe Sales pour diriger les discussions techniques, définir le périmètre des évaluations en proof-of-concept (PoC) et réaliser des démonstrations de produits convaincantes auprès de clients industriels potentiels.
  • Accompagner les équipes d'ingénierie des clients pendant la phase d'évaluation en supervisant la mise en place des simulations, l'exécution de cas de test complexes et l'interprétation des résultats afin de démontrer concrètement la valeur technique et business de Vinci.
  • Piloter l'accompagnement technique des clients, notamment l'onboarding, le déploiement et l'expansion des comptes, en fournissant une expertise technique de haut niveau, des sessions de formation structurées et un support avancé pour la résolution des problèmes.
  • Fournir des orientations et des retours sur le produit, identifier les difficultés rencontrées par les clients et les points de friction dans leurs workflows, et collaborer directement avec les équipes Produit et Engineering internes afin de transformer les retours du terrain en fonctionnalités produit clés.
  • Représenter Vinci lors de grandes conférences industrielles et d'événements dédiés aux semi-conducteurs, en échangeant avec des prospects et partenaires stratégiques à travers des présentations techniques et des démonstrations en direct de la plateforme.
  • Maintenir une excellente compréhension des technologies concurrentes, des tendances du secteur et du positionnement du marché afin de communiquer efficacement les éléments différenciants de Vinci.

Qualifications (Qualifications minimales)

Formation : Diplôme d'ingénieur ou équivalent (Master, doctorat) en génie mécanique, génie électrique ou dans un domaine technique étroitement lié.

Expertise technique : Maîtrise approfondie de logiciels de simulation commerciaux (Ansys, Abaqus ou équivalent), avec plus de 15 ans d'expérience pratique en simulation thermomécanique — que ce soit en réalisant vous-même des simulations ou dans une fonction de Technical Account Manager pour des logiciels commerciaux de simulation physique.

Domaine industriel : Solide connaissance des technologies de packaging électronique pour les semi-conducteurs, des technologies de packaging avancé (par exemple, IC 2.5D/3D) ou des écosystèmes de fonderies.

Relation client : Expérience préalable dans des fonctions directement orientées client, avec une forte capacité à établir une relation de confiance et à gérer des relations avec des équipes d'ingénierie côté client.

Automatisation & scripting : Expérience pratique en programmation avec Python ou C++ pour automatiser des flux de travail ou analyser des données issues de simulations.

Leadership : Expérience avérée en management ou en leadership technique, avec la capacité à développer une équipe, accompagner ses membres et piloter l'exécution au sein d'équipes d'ingénierie.

Communication : Excellentes compétences interpersonnelles et de communication, avec une capacité démontrée à transformer des résultats complexes de physique et de simulation en messages clairs et à fort impact, aussi bien pour des publics techniques de haut niveau que pour des directions non spécialistes.

Profil recherché (Atouts différenciants)

Expertise multiphysique : Connaissance de la gestion thermique et des solutions de refroidissement et/ou des flux de travail Signal Integrity et Power Integrity (SI/PI).

Expérience commerciale : Expérience directe dans la commercialisation de logiciels techniques — idéalement des outils d'Electronic Design Automation (EDA) ou de simulation CAE — auprès de grandes entreprises des secteurs des semi-conducteurs et de l'électronique.

Parcours Go-to-Market : Passage préalable par des fonctions de pré-vente technique, d'ingénierie applicative (FAE) ou de vente technique stratégique.

Technologies émergentes : Capacité à adopter rapidement et à promouvoir des flux de travail de nouvelle génération fondés sur la physique, ainsi que des outils de conception ou de simulation assistés par l'IA.

Pourquoi nous rejoindre ?

  • Ne vous contentez pas d'utiliser l'IA : rejoignez une équipe qui redéfinit activement la manière dont le silicium et les systèmes hardware de nouvelle génération sont conçus.
  • Travaillez à la convergence de modèles d'IA de pointe, de la physique fondamentale et de projets industriels à forts enjeux.
  • Collaborez avec des équipes d'ingénierie et de recherche de renommée mondiale, dans un environnement de start-up en forte croissance.

Lieu : Paris ou Grenoble, France

Type d'emploi : Temps plein

Mode de travail : Télétravail

Département : Commercial

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