Head of Product - HPC Application & Solvers

Overview

SpiNNcloud is a deep-tech company building next-generation HPC and AI infrastructure for a world where brute-force compute is reaching its limits. Our chip and system architecture are designed to exploit sparsity at scale, focusing compute where it matters most while eliminating unnecessary computation everywhere else. SpiNNcloud delivers orders-of-magnitude gains in performance and efficiency, laying the foundation for what’s next in AI and HPC.

About the Role

We are looking for a Head of Product - HPC Applications & Solvers to define how SpiNNcloud’s architecture translates into production-grade engineering solutions. This is a senior, cross-functional leadership role at the intersection of HPC, engineering design, and product strategy. A core focus of this role will be FEM and the maturation of SpiNNcloud’s solver capabilities into production-ready products with clear performance and efficiency advantages. At the same time, this role requires a broader understanding of adjacent CAE and HPC workloads, and how SpiNNcloud can expand over time into areas such as CFD, multiphysics, and other advanced engineering applications.

You will work closely across product, engineering, and commercial teams to define where SpiNNcloud can create differentiated value, how that value is translated into product decisions, and how SpiNNcloud becomes a credible and compelling solution for teams developing and optimizing complex systems.

What You Will Do

• Lead technical discovery with customers, understanding their workflows, requirements, and constraints, and translating these into product decisions
• Translate real-world engineering workflows into product direction, roadmap priorities, and solution strategy
• Define how SpiNNcloud integrates into the broader engineering stack, including: pre-processing and meshing; solvers and coupled workflows; orchestration, scheduling, and cluster environments; post-processing and visualization
• Evaluate opportunities to expand SpiNNcloud’s product footprint across adjacent CAE and HPC workloads over time
• Make and drive decisions around build vs partner vs ecosystem for solver capabilities and supporting technologies
• Identify gaps in current industry approaches and define where SpiNNcloud can deliver differentiated value through solver performance, efficiency, and system-level advantages
• Develop benchmarking strategies and evaluation frameworks aligned with real customer workloads and decision criteria
• Shape SpiNNcloud’s technical narrative, positioning, and messaging for engineering workloads and HPC product strategy
• Act as a trusted advisor to customers and partners on engineering workloads and HPC product strategy

What We Are Looking For

• Deep experience in CAE and HPC applications for engineering design, with strong familiarity in FEM and related workflows
• Broad understanding of adjacent domains such as CFD, multiphysics, structural, thermal, and coupled workflows
• Strong understanding of the end-to-end engineering workflow, from use case definition through pre-processing, meshing, solvers, and post-processing
• Practical experience with the industrial software ecosystem, including tools such as Ansys, Siemens Simcenter, Altair HyperWorks, Dassault SIMULIA, or equivalent
• Experience working directly with customers to understand requirements, lead technical discussions, and shape solutions
• Strong understanding of benchmarking, workload characterization, and performance evaluation in real-world environments
• Ability to connect use cases, solver capabilities, and system architecture into a coherent product vision
• Strong product thinking, with the ability to translate technical depth into roadmap decisions and differentiated offerings
• Excellent communication skills across technical teams, business stakeholders, and executive leadership

Ideal Background

• Product leader, applications leader, or domain expert from: CAE or engineering software companies
• HPC vendors or infrastructure providers
• OEMs or Tier 1 engineering organizations
• Experience owning or contributing to solver development, deployment, or
• Background in customer-facing technical roles such as applications engineering, solutions architecture, or field engineering
• Experience working with customers in aerospace, automotive, manufacturing
• Strong grasp of both the technology stack and the real-world use of engineering