Flexcompute
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High-Performance Computing
Simulation & Digital Twin Software
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$80.7M
5 rounds on record
Latest round
$53M
Venture round · Jul 2024 · 2 yr ago
Team
59
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +40% in a year
Hiring now
17
+13 posted in 30 days
Grants
$966k
2 grants · CORDIS
Backers
1
Coatue
The money's age
Long since its last round
27 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
56/100
hiring for its size, a new city, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Mar 19
Launched Flexcompute Launches PhotonForge Connector for Cadence Virtuoso Studio, Advancing Integrated Photonic Design Workflows for AI Data Centers · marketwatch.com
Jan 20
Partnership Flexcompute and Bramble CFD Partner to Deliver Best-in-Class Motorsport Simulation Workflows · prnewswire.com
2025
Team of 59 was 42 · US Form 5500 (plan participants)
Jun 25, 2025
Partnership Joby Aviation and Flexcompute partner to design quieter and more efficient eVTOL aircraft · seekingalpha.com
Jan 29, 2025
Launched Flexcompute Introduces PhotonForge: the End-to-End Platform for Fabrication-aware Photonic Integrated Circuit Design · businesswire.com
Jul 8, 2024
Raised a round Venture round $53M · SEC Form D
Nov 12, 2021
Raised a round Series B $22.5M · SEC Form D
Nov 19, 2020
Raised a round Venture round $5.2M · SEC Form D
Sep 1, 2017
Won a grant $741k · CORDIS
Jan 1, 2016
Won a grant $225k · CORDIS
2016
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 5%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
1
best: 1 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Jul 2024 | $53M | — | SEC Form D |
| Series B | Nov 2021 | $22.5M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Nov 2020 | $5.2M | — | SEC Form D |
| Grant | Sep 2017 | $741k | — | CORDIS |
| Grant | Jan 2016 | $225k | — | CORDIS |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Flexcompute Inc | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Zongfu YuExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
John MooreExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
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How Flexcompute hires
Truth index
A 100/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Flexcompute scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 16 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
Flexcompute is a computer-aided engineering (CAE) and deep-tech simulation software company. Headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts (in the Greater Boston area), and spun out by researchers from MIT and Stanford, the company develops high-performance physics simulation engines that accelerate hardware R&D across aerospace, defense, automotive, photonics, and semiconductor sectors.
News
Flexcompute Raises Strategic Investment From Samsung Ventures And Applied Ventures To Advance Physics World Model
Flexcompute raised a strategic investment from Samsung Ventures and Applied Ventures, the venture capital arm of Applied Materials, to accelerate development of its Physics World Model. Other investors also participated in the financing. The post Flexcomp
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Flexcompute Raises Strategic Investment From Samsung Ventures and Applied Ventures to Build the Physics World Model
Backing from semiconductor and manufacturing leaders will scale Flexcompute's research toward AI that understands the laws of physics, not just patterns in data BOSTON, Oct. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Flexcompute, the physics company, today announced strate
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Flexcompute引领自主光子设计的智能体驱动循环技术革新
2026年6月1日物理计算公司Flexcompute推出首个实用的、完全由自主智能体驱动的端到端光子芯片设计循环人工智能智能体可在数小时内生成可用于流片的版图以往则需数周光子学是智能体工程中具挑战性的多物理领域传统模拟周期每次迭代...
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Flexcompute Pioneers Agent-Driven Loop for Autonomous Photonic Design
Flexcompute, the physics company, today introduced the first practical fully autonomous agent-driven loop for end-to-end photonic chip design. AI agents now propose designs, run physics simulations, verify fabrication constraints, and iterate without huma
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Flexcompute and Northrop Grumman Reduce Space Mission Preparation Time by 100X Using AI Physics Models, Enabled by NVIDIA
/PRNewswire/ -- Flexcompute, the physics company, and Northrop Grumman have developed a foundational AI infrastructure powered by NVIDIA technology that fully...
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Can AI Agents Autonomously Design Components on Photonic Chips?
We gave AI agents a photonic simulator, a DRC engine, and four design challenges. They autonomously designed waveguide bends, crossings, splitters, and demultiplexers - some reaching near-perfect performance.
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Flexcompute Launches PhotonForge Connector for Cadence Virtuoso Studio, Advancing Integrated Photonic Design Workflows for AI Data Centers
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Flexcompute and GlobalFoundries Enable Integrated Design and Simulation on GF Silicon Photonics Platform
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Flexcompute and Bramble CFD Partner to Deliver Best-in-Class Motorsport Simulation Workflows
Flexcompute, the physics intelligence platform for advanced simulation, today announced a partnership with Bramble CFD, a cloud-based simulation platform known for delivering streamlined CFD workflows to motorsport and high-performance engineering teams.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Flexcompute over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
36
Postings analysed
13
Stack modernity
76/100AI adopter
Languages
C++54%
Python54%
Rust23%
Fortran8%
Frameworks & libraries
CUDA23%
MPI8%
PoC Library8%
Ray8%
Cloud & platforms
Linux38%
AWS31%
CUDA Toolkit23%
Kubernetes23%
AI & ML
LLM8%
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36 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
People
Zongfu Yu
Executive Officer, Director
John Moore
Executive Officer
Shanhui Fan
Director
Qiqi Wang
Director
Wu Wensi
Director
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
89/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
17
13 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
51 days
faster than 27% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~6 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
22% ▲
Sales
22% ▲
Management
11% ▲
AI/ML
6% ▼
DevOps
6% ▼
Hardware
6% ▼
Actively hiring for Sales (+4 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: United States
Oct 2026
New location: Watertown
Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
New location: Katowice
Sep 2026
Added PoC Library to stack
Sep 2026
Added Agentic Workflows to stack
Sep 2026
Added Stripe to stack
Sep 2026
Added QuickBooks to stack
Sep 2026
Added SLI/SLO/SLA to stack
Sep 2026
Added HubSpot to stack
Sep 2026
Added Google Sheets to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
2
Countries
2
Busiest office
Watertown
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Watertown
United States
HQ
15 open roles 15 posted in 90 days 40% engineering 200-500 est. staff
hires for Backend, Sales, Management
Katowice
Poland
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering
Earlier presence
Madison, United States
Jobs
≈ $95k – $194k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Master's Degree • Watertown
Python
C
C++
MPI
AI/ML
CUDA Toolkit
OpenMP
CUDA
DevOps
Linux
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≈ $137k – $250k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Watertown
Python
Java
C++
Terraform
Ansible
SLURM
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Configuration Management
IAM
HPC
Linux
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≈ $126k – $265k per year (Estimated) • In office • Watertown
Python
Ray
DevOps
Terraform
SLURM
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
HPC
Linux
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≈ $126k – $265k per year (Estimated) • In office • Watertown
Terraform
CI/CD
AWS
IAM
HPC
Cybersecurity
NIST 800-53
NIST 800-171
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≈ $155k – $294k per year (Estimated) • In office • Watertown
HPC
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≈ $139k – $304k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Watertown
Python
C++
Fine-tuning
Reinforcement Learning
AI Agents
LLM
Agentic Workflows
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