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Our technology enables creatives to render photo realistically in real-time, researchers to discover new materials, and designers to simulate state of the art products and buildings before they’re built. We pride ourselves on our first principles approach to solving problems. We are energized by our mission to reduce the barrier of entry for content creation and consumption. Our goal is to enable everyone to easily create, simulate and consume immersive experiences as vividly as they can imagine them.\nOur Values\nBe Fearless: Unmute yourself. Test boundaries and get proven right.\nRemain Adaptable: Stay comfortable in a continuously changing world. If you’re wrong, concede and move on.\nEducate Your Ego: Selflessly collaborate towards our shared purpose.\n About the role:\nBolt is looking for a seasoned, highly technical customer-facing Solutions Architect/Sales Engineer to partner closely with our Business Development team as we bring a newcomputearchitecture to market.\nThis 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, evaluate where Bolt's architecture can create meaningful advantages, and design the technical path from initial discovery through benchmark, evaluation, and deployment.\nThis is not a traditional pre-sales demo role. Bolt is introducing fundamentally newcomputetechnology, and many customer engagements will require deep technical discovery, workload analysis, benchmarking, and collaboration with Bolt's engineering organization.\nWe are particularly interested in candidates with experience in HPC, computational science/engineering, electromagnetic simulation, GPU acceleration, scientific computing, or adjacent compute-intensive workloads.\nWhat you'll do:\nPartner directly with Bolt's commercial lead on strategic customer engagements \nLead technical discovery with customer engineering, HPC, research, and infrastructure teams \nUnderstand customers' existing workloads, compute environments, bottlenecks, performance requirements, and deployment constraints \nIdentifyworkloads where Bolt's architecture could provide meaningful performance or cost-performance advantages \nTranslate customer requirements into clear technical requirements for Bolt's engineering organization \nDesign and coordinate benchmarks, technical evaluations, proofs of concept, and workload validation \nHelp customers understand Bolt's architecture and how it compares with existing CPU/GPU-based approaches \nAnswer sophisticated technical questions from customers and partners \nWork across customer teams and Bolt engineering to resolve technical blockers \nHelpdeterminewhether an opportunityrepresentsgenuine technical fit before significant engineering resources are committed \nDevelop technical materials, reference architectures, benchmark methodologies, and customer-facing documentation \nSupport technical discussions with strategic partners, national laboratories, government organizations, enterprises, and ecosystem partners \nRepresent Bolt at relevant HPC, simulation, semiconductor, and technical industry events \nBring customer and market feedback back into product and engineering strategy \nQualifications:\n8+ years of relevant experience in solutions architecture, sales engineering, field applications engineering, HPC engineering, scientific computing, computational engineering, or a related field \nStrong understanding of HPC architectures and compute-intensive workloads \nExperience working with GPUs, accelerators, CPUs, heterogeneous computing, or high-performance computing systems \nExperience engaging directly with seasoned technical customers \nAbility to understand a customer's workload andidentifywhere performance bottlenecksoccur\nStrong knowledge of benchmarking and performance analysis \nAbility to communicate complex architecture and performance concepts clearly to both engineers and executives \nComfortable operating between commercial and engineering organizations \nStrong technical judgment and willingness to say when a workload is not a good fit \nComfortable working in an early-stage environment where technical and commercial processes are still being developed \nWillingness to travel for strategic customer engagements \nHighly Desired Qualifications:\nComputational electromagnetics/electromagnetic simulation \nFDTD, FEM,MoMor related numerical simulation methods \nHPC simulation workloads \nCUDA, GPUprogrammingor accelerator optimization\nC/C++ and/or Python \nParallel computing \nMPI and distributed computing \nPerformance profiling and optimization \nLarge-memory scientific workloads \nHPC clusters and high-speed interconnects \nExperience with national laboratories, aerospace/defense, scientific computing organizations, or major HPC environments \nExperience with commercial simulation software and/or internally developed scientific codes \nExamples of relevant domain exposure could include electromagnetic simulation, computational physics, computational fluid dynamics, EDA, seismic/geophysical simulation, weather/climate modeling, rendering, or other highly compute-intensive scientific workloads.\nWhat Success Looks Like\nYou become the trusted technical counterpart to Bolt's commercial organization.\nWhen a customer says, “Here is the workload we're running today,” you can quickly helpdetermine:\nWhether Bolt is technically relevant; \nWhere the potential advantage comes from; \nWhat information is needed tovalidateit; \nWhat benchmark or evaluation should be run; \nWhat engineering work isrequired; and \nWhattechnical milestones need to be achieved before the opportunity can progresscommercially. \nYou will help ensure Boltconcentrates onengineering and commercial resources on opportunities where the technology can deliver meaningful customer value.\nGrowth Opportunity\nThis is an early and highly influential customer-facing technical role at Bolt. As the commercial organization scales, this personcanhelp build andultimately leadBolt's Solutions Engineering / Field Applications organization.\nIdeal candidates MUST be located in the Bay Area and come on-site in our offices in Sunnyvale. Travel is required at least 6-8 times a year for major conferences and team meet ups.\nWe currently do not offer sponsorship or relocation for this role.\nCompensation Range:California: $175,000-$200,000. This range represents the anticipated base pay for this role based on California standards; the final offer may vary based on qualifications, experience, and location.\nBenefits:\nMedical, Dental, & Vision - 100% covered premiums\nEquity - Stock Options\n401(k) match\nWFH Hardware Reimbursement\nGenerous Paid Time Off\nBolt is committed to building a diverse and inclusive environment in which we recognize and value each other’s differences as well as fostering a culture that promotes its core values: Professionalism, Integrity, and Respect. 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