Lead and grow a small senior engineering team to build workload orchestration for large-scale headless nTop notebook executions across GPU workstations, on-prem HPC, and cloud. Own architecture, ship integrations (HEEDS, ModelCenter, PhysicsX Flux, cloud job services), write code as a player-coach, and work with product and customer IT under export-control and governance constraints.
About nTop
The Role
What You'll Do
Build the team.
Define the technical approach.
Write code, especially early on.
Ship integrations.
Partner with Product.
Deliver for customers in hard environments.
What Success Looks Like
90 days:
12 months:
Who You Are
Required
Preferred
Why This Role
nTop builds parametric design software for the hardest geometry problems in aerospace, defense, and industrial turbomachinery. Our platform lets engineers define a design as a parametric program — not one aircraft or turbine, but every variant a program might need. The next step is scale: thousands of design variants evaluated in parallel, across cloud, HPC, and on-prem infrastructure, feeding directly into AI-driven optimization workflows. We're building the product that makes that possible.
We're looking for an Engineering Manager to build and lead the team responsible for workload orchestration — the infrastructure that lets nTop customers define, launch, monitor, and collect results from large-scale distributed computation jobs.
This team will be small by design: senior engineers, AI-native workflows, high individual leverage. We'll grow when the work earns it. One founding engineer is in place; you will hire and lead the rest while contributing to systems spanning
- containerized headless execution,
- job scheduling,
- integration with third-party platforms (HEEDS, ModelCenter, PhysicsX Flux — MDO and simulation workflow platforms our customers already rely on),
- and deployment across environments from GPU workstations to cloud-scale Kubernetes clusters.
You'll partner with a dedicated Product Manager who owns strategy and roadmap for this area. Your job is to own technical execution: system design, team operations, and delivery into environments shaped by IT governance, export control, and heterogeneous infrastructure.
The north-star metric: headless nTop notebook executions. A notebook is a parameterized nTop program; headless means executing it without a user at the keyboard — more design variations explored, in less time, without a human in the loop.
Recruit, hire, and develop a small, senior engineering team. Set clear expectations, give direct feedback, and establish practices that reflect nTop's engineering culture and the demands of infrastructure work.
Own the architecture for headless execution and workload orchestration within the product direction set by the CTO and PM. Drive build vs. integrate vs. partner decisions for the systems your team owns, across workstations, on-prem HPC, and cloud.
This is a player-coach role. In year one, you'll be hands-on — writing production code, reviewing PRs, making architectural decisions alongside your team.
Lead execution on integrations with HEEDS, ModelCenter, PhysicsX Flux, and cloud-native job services. Deliver the headless pipeline: job definition, submission, monitoring, failure handling, and results collection.
Work with the Product Manager to translate product strategy into engineering plans. Provide grounded technical input on feasibility, sequencing, and risk. Push back when plans don't account for real constraints; propose alternatives when they don't.
Our customers are defense contractors, aerospace OEMs, and industrial manufacturers. You'll engage directly with their engineering and IT teams to design systems that work within real constraints — not around them.
You've assessed the technical landscape, aligned on the initial architecture with the CTO, and begun hiring. You've met with at least two or three customer IT or engineering teams firsthand.
The team is staffed and delivering. At least one major integration is live. The headless execution pipeline is in production with a design partner (a strategic early customer co-developing with us). Team engineering practices — CI/CD, testing, incident response, deployment — are established and working.
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years managing engineering teams; experience building and shipping distributed systems or infrastructure software
- Hands-on expertise with Docker, Kubernetes, and at least one cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure); deep understanding of job scheduling and compute-intensive workloads at scale
- Experience shipping into customer-managed environments — on-prem, hybrid, or air-gapped
- Track record of building teams: recruiting, developing, and making hard performance calls
- Strong collaboration skills with PMs, designers, and field engineers; able to reason about customer value, not just technical elegance
- HPC, scientific computing, or engineering simulation background (Slurm, PBS, HEEDS, ModelCenter, OpenMDAO)
- Experience building for customers with ITAR/EAR obligations or strict IT governance
- Familiarity with consumption-based pricing transitions
- Comfort reading and reasoning about C++ codebases
You'll build a team and product area from scratch, reporting to the CTO, on problems that are genuinely hard and customers who care deeply. The shift from individual-engineer CAD to large-scale parallel computation is one of the most consequential transitions in engineering software — and this role sits at the center of it.
nTop is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive team.
CompensationThe base pay range for this role is $265,000 – $295,000 per year.
Please note that nTop may use AI products to assist in the recruiting process. All resumes are reviewed by, and all employment decisions are made by, nTop's Hiring Team.
If you require a reasonable accommodation during the interview process, please don't hesitate to email us directly.
nTop New York, New York, USA Office
199 Lafayette St, 4th Floor, New York, NY , United States, 10012
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