Senior Solutions Architect / Sales Engineer, HPC & Computational Engineering

About the role

Bolt 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.

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, evaluate where Bolt's architecture can create meaningful advantages, and design the technical path from initial discovery through benchmark, evaluation, and deployment.

This 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.

We are particularly interested in candidates with experience in HPC, computational science/engineering, electromagnetic simulation, GPU acceleration, scientific computing, or adjacent compute-intensive workloads.

What you'll do

• Partner directly with Bolt's commercial lead on strategic customer engagements
• Lead technical discovery with customer engineering, HPC, research, and infrastructure teams
• Understand customers' existing workloads, compute environments, bottlenecks, performance requirements, and deployment constraints
• Identifyworkloads where Bolt's architecture could provide meaningful performance or cost-performance advantages
• Translate customer requirements into clear technical requirements for Bolt's engineering organization
• Design and coordinate benchmarks, technical evaluations, proofs of concept, and workload validation
• Help customers understand Bolt's architecture and how it compares with existing CPU/GPU-based approaches
• Answer sophisticated technical questions from customers and partners
• Work across customer teams and Bolt engineering to resolve technical blockers
• Helpdeterminewhether an opportunityrepresentsgenuine technical fit before significant engineering resources are committed
• 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
• Represent Bolt at relevant HPC, simulation, semiconductor, and technical industry events
• Bring customer and market feedback back into product and engineering strategy

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant experience in solutions architecture, sales engineering, field applications engineering, HPC engineering, scientific computing, computational engineering, 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
• Experience engaging directly with seasoned technical customers
• Ability to understand a customer's workload andidentifywhere performance bottlenecksoccur
• Strong knowledge of benchmarking and performance analysis
• Ability to communicate complex architecture and performance concepts clearly to both engineers and executives
• Comfortable operating between commercial and engineering organizations
• Strong technical judgment and willingness to say when a workload is not a good fit
• Comfortable working in an early-stage environment where technical and commercial processes are still being developed
• Willingness to travel for strategic customer engagements

Highly Desired Qualifications

Computational electromagnetics/electromagnetic simulation

FDTD, FEM,MoMor related numerical simulation methods

HPC simulation workloads

CUDA, GPUprogrammingor 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

Experience with national laboratories, aerospace/defense, scientific computing organizations, or major HPC environments

Experience with commercial simulation software and/or internally developed scientific codes

Examples 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.

What Success Looks Like

• You become the trusted technical counterpart to Bolt's commercial organization.
• When a customer says, “Here is the workload we're running today,” you can quickly helpdetermine:
• Whether Bolt is technically relevant;
• Where the potential advantage comes from;
• What information is needed tovalidateit;
• What benchmark or evaluation should be run;

What engineering work isrequired; and

Whattechnical milestones need to be achieved before the opportunity can progresscommercially.

You will help ensure Boltconcentrates onengineering and commercial resources on opportunities where the technology can deliver meaningful customer value.

Growth Opportunity

This 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.

Ideal 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.

We currently do not offer sponsorship or relocation for this role.

Compensation 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.

Benefits

Medical, Dental, & Vision - 100% covered premiums

Equity - Stock Options

401(k) match

WFH Hardware Reimbursement

Generous Paid Time Off

Bolt 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. As an equal opportunity employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, or status as a protected veteran.