Manager, Molecular Simulation Engineering
$224,000 - $356,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 30 October 2026 by the employer. Relisted by the employer on 31 October 2026.
About the role
NVIDIA BioNeMo is hiring a hands-on technical manager to lead the MD Simulation Engineering team in enabling biological simulation engines at scale. The role combines team leadership with guiding architectural decisions for GPU-native simulation software.
What you'll do
- Lead, hire, and develop software engineers while managing direct collaboration with researchers and authorities in the field.
- Own end-to-end delivery across multiple workstreams, managing partner alignment and cross-team dependencies.
- Partner with Applied Science teams to translate research prototypes into production-quality, benchmarked software.
- Build and maintain relationships with the molecular dynamics modeling community.
- Drive engineering completion across code quality, CI/CD, multi-SKU validation, and documentation standards.
What you'll need
- 8+ overall years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years managing an engineering team with direct reports.
- Technical foundation in GPU computing and high-performance scientific software with the ability to review builds and guide architectural directions.
- Experience shipping production GPU libraries, scientific computing software, or developer-facing APIs.
- Familiarity with molecular dynamics simulation concepts such as force fields, electrostatics, neighbor lists, and periodic boundary conditions.
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Computational Science, Physics, Chemistry, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Skills: GPU-accelerated simulation, molecular dynamics, scientific software, HPC, production GPU libraries
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This role has been open 161 days — well above the 52-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · GPU Software Stack
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Open roles in category
257
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Median days open
52 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$221k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (257 roles · 18 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 142 | 257 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 1117 | 6358 · 144 employers |
| Median days open | 64 d | 52 d (+12 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $221k |
Skills observed across this category: GPU-accelerated simulation, molecular dynamics, scientific software, HPC, production GPU libraries
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 126 open roles · median 59 d
- AMD · 53 open roles · median 59 d
- Intel Corporation · 30 open roles · median 17 d
- Qualcomm · 17 open roles · median 190 d
- Arm Holdings · 10 open roles · median 3 d
- Graphcore · 4 open roles · median 10 d
How we counted: 257 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (GPU Software Stack) roles from 18 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 31 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.