Senior Solutions Architect / Sales Engineer, HPC & Computational Engineering
$175,000 - $200,000 USD yearly
About the role
This person will serve as the technical counterpart to our commercial team, working directly with engineering leaders, researchers, HPC teams, and other sophisticated technical customers to understand their workloads and evaluate where Bolt's architecture can create meaningful advantages.
What you'll do
- Lead technical discovery with customer engineering, HPC, research, and infrastructure teams
- Understand customers' existing workloads, compute environments, bottlenecks, performance requirements, and deployment constraints
- Identify workloads where Bolt's architecture could provide meaningful performance or cost-performance advantages
- Design and coordinate benchmarks, technical evaluations, proofs of concept, and workload validation
- Develop technical materials, reference architectures, benchmark methodologies, and customer-facing documentation
- Support technical discussions with strategic partners, national laboratories, government organizations, enterprises, and ecosystem partners
What you'll need
- 8+ years of relevant experience in solutions architecture, sales engineering, field applications engineering, HPC engineering, scientific computing, or a related field
- Strong understanding of HPC architectures and compute-intensive workloads
- Experience working with GPUs, accelerators, CPUs, heterogeneous computing, or high-performance computing systems
- Strong knowledge of benchmarking and performance analysis
- Ability to communicate complex architecture and performance concepts clearly to both engineers and executives
- Willingness to travel for strategic customer engagements
Nice to have
- Computational electromagnetics/electromagnetic simulation
- FDTD, FEM, MoM or related numerical simulation methods
- HPC simulation workloads
- CUDA, GPU programming or accelerator optimization
- C/C++ and/or Python
- Parallel computing
- MPI and distributed computing
- Performance profiling and optimization
- Large-memory scientific workloads
- HPC clusters and high-speed interconnects
Skills: HPC, computational science, GPU acceleration, workload analysis, benchmarking
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This role has been open 71 days — slightly above the 63-day median for Applications FAE roles.
Applications FAE · AI ML Hardware
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Open roles in category
118
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Median days open
63 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$236k
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| Metric | Bolt Graphics | All employers we track in this specialty (118 roles · 23 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 118 |
| Median days open | 71 d | 63 d (+8 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $236k |
Skills observed across this category: HPC, computational science, GPU acceleration, workload analysis, benchmarking
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 63 open roles · median 71 d
- AMD · 13 open roles · median 65 d
- Renesas Electronics · 8 open roles · median 11 d
- Tenstorrent · 8 open roles · median 52 d
- Arm Holdings · 3 open roles · median 11 d
- Qualcomm · 3 open roles · median 37 d
How we counted: 118 open Applications FAE (AI ML Hardware) roles from 23 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 8 Nov 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there. Figures refresh nightly.