Principal Data Scientist / Algorithm Engineer
- Level
- Principal
Not stated in the posting: salary, work type, visa.
Open. First seen 2 October 2026.
About the role
About us
PhysicsX's standard text
Re-architecting Engineering for the Age of Intelligence
PhysicsX is the physics AI company for industrials. The company’s mission is to accelerate hardware innovation by overhauling what industrial engineering and manufacturing look like today. PhysicsX is building a new simulation software stack to deliver deep physics AI enablement across the entire engineering lifecycle.
The company partners with leading organisations in aerospace & defence, automotive, semiconductors, materials, and energy & renewables, supporting them on some of their most critical and complex challenges. PhysicsX is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with offices in London, New York, and Singapore and an expanding presence in the Bay Area.
Who We're Looking For
As a Principal Data Scientist (Algorithm Engineer) in Delivery, you are an experienced problem solver and technical leader who is passionate about building practical solutions that enable customers to make better engineering decisions. You are someone who can grasp advanced engineering concepts across multiple industries, lead technical initiatives, and excel at working directly with customers (and often side-by-side with them on-site) to embeds cutting edge AI models into tools that are useful and used.
You've consistently tackled difficult problems that require strong foundations in data driven modelling and deep learning techniques, with extensive hands-on experience in probabilistic methods and predictive modelling. Your expertise in python, along with advanced proficiency in libraries like NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, TensorFlow and PyTorch, is essential, with proven ability to architect and deploy scalable, production-ready models and data pipelines.
With industry experience (post Masters of PhD) in a commercial, you're ready to not only execute but also lead and mentor others. You're truly excited about growing both your technical expertise and leadership skills, naturally taking ownership of complex data science work streams and guiding teams to success. You continuously improve the systems and solutions you work on to ensure they are practical, impactful and meet the evolving needs of our customers.
This Role
In this role, you'll work closely with our Simulation Engineers, Machine Learning Engineers, and customers to understand and define the engineering and physics challenges we are solving, while providing technical leadership to your team.
You'll build the foundations for successful, impactful solutions by:
- Leading pre-processing and analysis of complex data to prepare it for use in predictive modelling, establishing best practices and methodologies for your team.
- Architecting and developing innovative deep learning models in combination with state-of-the-art optimisation methods to predict and control the behaviour of physical systems.
- Taking full responsibility for the quality, accuracy and impact of your work and the work of your team.
- Designing, building, and testing data pipelines that are reliable, scalable, and robustlyeasily deployable in production environments.
- Leading cross-functional collaboration with simulation engineers to ensure seamless integration of data science models with simulations.
- Driving internal R&D and product development, helping to refine models and identify new areas of application.
- Mentoring junior team members and providing technical guidance to help them grow.
- Leading open communication and presentations with both technical teams and customers, helping onboard users and co-develop with customers.
- Representing PhysicsX as a technical authority when traveling to customer sites in North America, Europe, Asia, Oceania, an average of 2-3 weeks per quarter, where you'll collaborate closely with customers to build solutions on site.
As a senior member of the team, you'll have significant influence on our technical direction and the opportunity to shape future solutions and products, while developing your skills as a technical leader.
Our delivery teams drive innovation to turn AI models into practical solutions - read our blog to learn more about how you’ll contribute to this exciting journey!
We value diversity and are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, religion, ethnicity, nationality, disability, age, sexual orientation or gender identity. We strongly encourage individuals from groups traditionally underrepresented in tech to apply. To help make a change, we sponsor bright women from disadvantaged backgrounds through their university degrees in science and mathematics.
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What this role asks for
Particular to this role
NumPy · TensorFlow
Rare in PhysicsX's other 31 open postings.
Standard for data science / ML roles
PyTorch
Common in data science / ML postings at any company.
In most of PhysicsX's ads
Machine Learning · Python
Named in most of its open postings, whatever the role.
79% of this description is written for the role. The rest is PhysicsX's standard text, folded away below.
Read against PhysicsX's other open postings on this site.
The team: Delivery HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 22 open in Delivery. 4 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in August: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Python (21 of 22), Machine Learning (20 of 22), Deep Learning (14 of 22), CATIA (8 of 22), FastAPI (7 of 22), AWS (6 of 22), Azure (6 of 22)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Senior CFD Engineer posted Oct 16
- Delivery Engineer posted Oct 7
- Senior CFD Engineer - Multiphase posted Oct 5
- Simulation Engineer: FEA & Multi body simulation posted Sep 29
- CFD Engineer posted Sep 8
- Senior Simulation Engineer - Electromagnetics Specialist posted Aug 13
- Forward Deployed Software Engineer posted Jul 20
- CFD Multiphase & DEM Engineer posted Jul 13
- Senior CFD Engineer - Plasma Specialist posted Jul 13
- Machine Learning Engineer posted Jun 2
- Forward Deployed Software Engineer posted May 6
- Machine Learning Engineer posted Apr 23
- Senior Forward Deployed Software Engineer posted Apr 21
- CFD Multiphase & DEM Engineer posted Apr 20
- Senior Forward Deployed Software Engineer posted Jan 11
- Principal CFD Engineer posted Jan 11
- Principal Machine Learning Engineer posted Jan 11
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer posted Sep 19
- CFD Engineer posted Sep 12
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer posted Aug 12
- Data Scientist posted Aug 12
From the team and dates on PhysicsX's own job board.
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