[Remote] Head of Education - Photonics & EM Simulation

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Flexcompute is a physics company that specializes in scaling first-principles physics into neural physics foundation models for industrial simulation and design. The Head of Education for Photonics & EM Simulation will engage with photonics researchers, professors, and students through presentations, workshops, and community building to promote the Tidy3D platform. This role involves significant travel and hands-on teaching, as well as creating educational content and fostering a user community.ResponsibilitiesGive talks, demos, and workshops at conferences (CLEO, Photonics West, IEEE Photonics, OFC, SPIE), universities, and company R&D groupsRun hands-on sessions where researchers go from zero to a working Tidy3D simulationVisit university photonics, EE, and physics departments to demonstrate the platform to professors, postdocs, and grad studentsPresent at seminars, lab meetings, and departmental colloquiaWrite tutorials, example notebooks, and application notes (silicon photonics, optical interconnects, metasurfaces, waveguide design, etc.)Record video walkthroughs and short-form demosBuild course-ready materials that professors can drop into their syllabiWrite blog posts, technical notes, and social content that drive awarenessBecome the face of Tidy3D in the academic photonics communityGrow a base of student users, faculty champions, and research group adoptersEngage on forums, GitHub, social media - wherever users have questionsBring feedback from the field back to the product team: what's working, what's confusing, what's missingSkillsPhD or Masters in photonics, optics, electrical engineering, or a closely related fieldYou can explain the difference between TE and TM modes, design a directional coupler, and discuss dispersion engineering without checking your notes. You've worked with electromagnetic simulation in your own researchFluent in Python - You can write and debug simulation scripts live in front of an audience. You've used Jupyter notebooks for research. You can walk a student through their first API callHands-on photonic simulation experience - You've designed and simulated photonic devices - waveguides, resonators, couplers, gratings, or similar. You've used tools like Lumerical, COMSOL, Ansys HFSS, RSoft, Meep, or similar, and you understand FDTD, FEM, or eigenmode solvers at a working level, not just conceptuallyA natural presenter - You're the person who volunteered to give the group meeting talk. You enjoy being in front of a room. You can make a complex topic accessible without dumbing it down. People leave your talks wanting to try the thing you showed themEnergized by travel - Conferences, campus visits, and lab tours are the parts of the job you look forward to, not the parts you tolerate. You see face time as the highest-leverage activitySelf-directed - Nobody is going to hand you a list of universities to visit or talks to submit. You'll identify the opportunities, pitch the abstracts, book the travel, and show up prepared. You thrive with autonomyExperience in technical evangelism, developer relations, or academic outreachExisting relationships within university photonics/EE departmentsBackground in silicon photonics, optical interconnects, or AI datacenter architectureExperience with Tidy3DPublished research using electromagnetic simulationExperience creating video tutorials or technical contentFamiliarity with agentic AI, LLM-based tools, or AI-assisted design workflowsExperience with multi-physics simulation (thermal, structural, RF)BenefitsCompetitive compensation with equity of a fast-growing startup.Medical, dental, and vision health insurance.401(k) Contribution.Gym allowance.Friendly, thoughtful, and intelligent coworkers.Company OverviewFlexCompute is an IT company that specializes in providing solutions related to simulation. It was founded in 2016, and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://www.flexcompute.com/.