Full-Time

Software Engineer

Full Stack, AI & Data

Updated on 5/14/2026

Rescale

Rescale

201-500 employees

Cloud-based HPC platform for simulations

Compensation Overview

$90k - $159k/yr

Remote in USA

Remote

Category
Software Engineering (1)
Required Skills
LLM
Claude
Kubernetes
Microsoft Azure
Python
Java
RDBMS
Docker
AWS
Go
Google Cloud Platform
Requirements
  • 1-3 years of backend software engineering experience building and operating distributed systems in a major cloud environment (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
  • Strong experience in at least two of Python, Java, or Go, and comfort working across service boundaries and APIs.
  • Experience with data-intensive systems (for example: object storage, relational databases, caches, queues/streams) and experience or strong interest in building products on top of LLMs or agents.
  • Experience using AI agents as part of the software development lifecycle (Claude Code or similar).
  • Willingness to work across the stack as needed—from backend services and cloud infrastructure to occasional frontend changes.
  • BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
Responsibilities
  • Design, build, and operate backend services for generative AI capabilities, including LLM-backed APIs, agents, retrieval and knowledge layers, and connectors to internal and external systems.
  • Build and scale data infrastructure underpinning file management and high-throughput data flows between customer environments, cloud object storage, and compute clusters, with an emphasis on reliability, performance, and cost.
  • Work across the stack—from backend services (Python/Java/Go) and cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP, containers/Kubernetes) to the occasional UI change—to deliver end-to-end user-facing experiences in collaboration with product, design, and other engineering teams.
Desired Qualifications
  • None

Rescale provides a cloud-based platform for high-performance computing that lets engineers and scientists run large simulations without managing on-premises infrastructure. It operates as HPC-as-a-service on a hybrid cloud, automating workload orchestration and supporting more than 1,000 software applications. Rescale differentiates itself through multi-cloud partnerships (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud), its founders’ engineering background, and a broad customer base across aerospace, automotive, life sciences, energy, semiconductors, and government. Its goal is to speed up innovation by making supercomputing capabilities accessible to organizations of all sizes for faster design, testing, and digital R&D.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

Series D

Total Funding

$267.5M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2011

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • $115M Series D on April 7, 2025, from NVIDIA and Foxconn totals $286M funding.
  • CAE Hub on NVIDIA's European AI Cloud accesses 10,000 GPUs since June 2025.
  • NEC investment enables hybrid HPC integration for global enterprise expansion.

What critics are saying

  • CoreWeave's 20% cheaper HPC erodes Rescale's automotive market share now.
  • NVIDIA DGX Cloud Suite bypasses Rescale, capturing 30% workloads since March 2026.
  • Ansys-SimScale merger steals General Motors, undercutting Rescale's app catalog.

What makes Rescale unique

  • Rescale integrates 1,000 engineering apps with multi-cloud HPC for digital R&D.
  • Agentic AI automates workflows, delivering 1,000x faster simulations for McLaren Automotive.
  • AI physics OS creates surrogate models, cutting costs 90% for Daikin Industries.

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Benefits

Health Insurance - Medical, dental and vision coverage.

Apple Gear - Get the latest tools to do amazing work.

Team Events - Happy hours, picnics, and hackdays

Catered Lunches - Get tasty meals delivered three days a week.

Commuter Benefits - Pre-tax savings on your commute.

401(k) + Stock Options - Receive meaningful equity in the company.

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Vehicle Dynamics International
Mar 30th, 2026
McLaren Automotive deploys agentic AI in engineering development.

McLaren Automotive deploys agentic AI in engineering development. By Web Team March 30, 2026 2 Mins Read McLaren Automotive has deployed an end-to-end agentic artificial intelligence (AI) platform across its engineering lifecycle, in partnership with Rescale and Nvidia. Rescale's digital engineering platform, powered by an Nvidia infrastructure, creates a unified environment that connects McLaren's computer-aided engineering (CAE), systems engineering and design into a single AI 'data fabric'. The platform is trained exclusively on McLaren data and continuously learns and optimises, while adhering to the company's quality standards and performance characteristics. Nick Collins, CEO of McLaren Automotive, said of the move, "By continuously compounding and optimising our data, our intelligence and our engineering philosophies at unimaginable speed, we can deliver product developments at pace, while protecting the DNA of our company." AI-driven physics simulation reduces test cycle times, with each test feeding new data back into the system to improve surrogate models and agents' understanding of physical behaviour. McLaren says that engineers can use the systems to evaluate thousands of design iterations within hours across multiple physics and engineering domains, enabling more rapid optimisation compared with traditional computational modelling. Machine learning models enable instant performance prediction for manufacturing processes, including the production of high-performance carbon fibre structures and components. According to Rescale, the platform's agentic engineering capabilities automate complex repetitive tasks, which can increase the productivity of McLaren's experts three-fold. Rescale's platform also builds engineering knowledge graphs that capture insights from previous work, which in turn power agentic workflows and accelerate product development decisions. Joris Poort, founder and CEO of Rescale, said, "Our foundational platform allows McLaren to leverage the latest agentic engineering technologies powered by Nvidia AI infrastructure, providing a compounding source of competitive advantage for engineers in critical areas of product development, such as carbon materials, structural dynamics, durability, and ultimately the programmatic scaling of engineering excellence across every discipline." Tim Costa, vice president and general manager of computational engineering at Nvidia, added, "The future of automotive engineering is being rewritten by agentic AI and advanced simulation, turning decades of design heritage into a live, generative engine that accelerates every stage of the vehicle lifecycle."

PR Newswire
Jun 16th, 2025
Rescale To Provide Cae Hub On Nvidia'S European Industrial Ai Cloud To Expand Access To Gpu-Accelerated Digital Engineering Simulation

Rescale's CAE Hub Will Provide European Engineers and Scientists with Leading-Edge Computing Resources for Digital Simulation and Industrial AISAN FRANCISCO, June 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Rescale, a digital engineering platform built for industrial AI, accelerated product development, and scientific discovery, announced that it will integrate the Rescale CAE Hub to NVIDIA's new industrial AI cloud. This collaboration gives European engineers access to an open ecosystem of simulation and AI applications at massive scale, leveraging 10,000 GPUs spanning NVIDIA DGX B200 and NVIDIA RTX PRO Servers, to accelerate manufacturing R&D and product development.The CAE Hub brings Rescale's comprehensive application catalog, workflow orchestration, AI Physics, and secure data management together with NVIDIA's NVIDIA CUDA-X libraries, NVIDIA DGX B200, NVIDIA RTX, and NVIDIA Omniverse platforms. This powerful combination of cutting-edge hardware and software enables engineers to build and scale industrial AI and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads, while meeting EU requirements for data sovereignty and compliance.Leading European innovators across industries such as automotive, energy, and advanced manufacturing use Rescale to accelerate product development, optimize simulation workflows, and leverage AI to tackle the most complex engineering challenges. Organizations are improving their operational efficiency and collaboration across their value chains with on-demand access to GPU-accelerated tools empowering digital engineering platform capabilities. This collaboration with NVIDIA ensures these technologies are delivered with the scale, speed, and data compliance necessary for European organizations to accelerate AI development and build the future of industrial AI.By orchestrating GPU acceleration, advanced AI methods, and automated data workflows, Rescale's CAE Hub enables faster, more sustainable innovation across industrial sectors. Powered by NVIDIA's latest GPU architectures, companies are achieving up to 10x performance gains and 30x cost reductions in engineering workloads to meet ambitious efficiency goals

Latin Business Today
Apr 23rd, 2025
Rescale Secures $115M for AI Innovation

Rescale announced a $115 million Series D funding round, bringing total funding to over $260 million. The investment will accelerate the development of Rescale's digital engineering platform, which integrates advanced computing, intelligent data, and applied AI. The platform aims to remove bottlenecks in compute, data, and AI deployment, empowering engineers and scientists to innovate faster. Key investors include NVIDIA, Y Combinator, and others.

株式会社PR TIMES
Apr 8th, 2025
NEC Invests in Rescale's HPC Cloud Services

NEC's Corporate Venture Capital fund, NEC Orchestrating Future Fund (NOFF), has invested in Rescale, Inc., a San Francisco-based startup offering pay-as-you-go cloud services for high-performance computing (HPC). Rescale addresses the challenge of efficiently utilizing computational resources by providing cloud-based HPC services, allowing users to access necessary computing resources and software environments on demand. NEC aims to integrate Rescale's services into its HPC solutions and explore hybrid service offerings.

MarketScreener
Apr 8th, 2025
NEC invests in Rescale for cloud HPC

NEC Orchestrating Future Fund has invested in Rescale, Inc., a San Francisco-based provider of a cloud high-performance computing (HPC) platform. This investment aims to enhance NEC's computing solutions by integrating Rescale's cloud services, offering hybrid on-premises and cloud options. Rescale's platform supports flexible HPC environments, intelligent data management, and applied AI, aligning with NEC's vision of creating sustainable societies. Financial details of the investment were not disclosed.