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title: 'Simulation and Software Engineer at Root Access'
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# Simulation and Software Engineer at Root Access

- **Company:** Root Access
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-12
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/root-access/a35e2e4e-1a13-48c7-8dd2-d4d80e5a722d

## Job description

## Role Description

Root Access is hiring a Simulation & Software Engineer to lead the development of scalable simulation infrastructure. You will build software that automates electrical, thermal, and electromagnetic simulations and transforms their outputs into reliable training datasets. Working alongside our Machine Learning Engineer and hardware team, you will own simulation execution, data quality, and the infrastructure needed to expand coverage across electronic designs.

## Responsibilities

- Build and maintain automated simulation pipelines, including design parameterization, solver integration, and results extraction.
- Scale simulation workloads across local and cloud compute through distributed execution, scheduling, and failure recovery.
- Develop workflows for parameter sweeps and design-space exploration.
- Implement checks for simulation convergence, physical validity, and dataset quality.
- Track simulation configurations, data provenance, and dataset versions to ensure reproducibility.
- Optimize simulation throughput, compute costs, and pipeline reliability.
- Collaborate with the ML team to prioritize simulations that improve model performance.
- Work with hardware engineers to validate simulation results against physical measurements.

## Qualifications

- Strong software engineering skills in Python, with experience building reliable automated systems.
- Experience with physics-based simulation tools, numerical solvers, or scientific computing.
- Experience with parallel computing, workload orchestration, and cloud or HPC infrastructure.
- Familiarity with data pipelines, structured storage, versioning, and reproducible workflows.
- Understanding of numerical methods and at least one relevant domain: circuit simulation, electromagnetics, or thermal analysis.
- Ability to diagnose solver failures and distinguish software issues from modeling problems.
- Degree in engineering, physics, applied mathematics, computer science, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred: experience scaling solver-generated data with automation and custom integrations.

## About Root Access

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Root Access builds AI-native developer tools for embedded engineers, enabling faster configuration and programming of mission-critical hardware in highly-regulated sectors.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Pre-Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: New York City, USA
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Ryan Eppley (CEO) and Samarpita Chowdhury (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Embedded software, AI developer tools, firmware development, safety-critical systems (aviation, automotive, medical devices, defense, robotics)
- **Target customers**: B2B – embedded engineers, firmware teams, safety/certification leads, system integrators at large OEMs (e.g., Mitsubishi Electric, East West Manufacturing) and companies in regulated industries
- **Mission / Purpose**: “AI for Engineers in Highly-regulated Sectors” – to make firmware development for complex, mission-critical hardware as fast and reliable as modern software development, while maintaining certifiability.

## Products & Services
- **Seb** – AI coding agent built specifically for embedded systems development. It ingests hardware datasheets, BOMs, schematics, and compliance requirements to generate tailored firmware, drivers, and HAL code. Uses proprietary fine-tuned LLMs and RAG, not boilerplate templates.
- **Hideout** – Agent management platform (IDE and orchestration layer) for deploying, monitoring, and controlling multiple instances of Seb. Supports CLI and cloud sessions, integrates with GitHub/GitLab, Jira/Linear, and can run tests directly on connected hardware.
- **Cert-ready artifacts** – The platform generates traceable outputs that align with DO-178C (aviation), ISO 26262 (automotive), and IEC 62304 (medical devices), reducing certification timeline from months to days.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$2.4M** (pre-seed round of $2.1M led by AlleyCorp in October 2025, plus an earlier $145K pre-seed from AlleyCorp in November 2024); open beta had 100+ engineers sign up before closing.
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: AlleyCorp (lead), Forum Ventures, Gold House Ventures, Mana Ventures, Purdue Angels; angel investors from SpaceX, Blue Origin, Department of Defense; strategic partnership with Altium (API integration); members of NVIDIA Inception Program, AWS Activate, Perplexity for Startups, NYC Founder Fellowship.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount of 8 (with 4 open positions as of mid-2026); customers include Mitsubishi Electric and East West Manufacturing; active hiring for founding engineer roles (ML, software, firmware/embedded); strong interest from engineers at Lockheed Martin, HP, John Deere during beta.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Specialization**: The only AI tool purpose-built for embedded and firmware work, not repurposed from general-purpose code generators.
- **Certification-first design**: Artifacts are traceable and designed to meet DO-178C, ISO 26262, and IEC 62304 standards – a critical differentiator for defense, automotive, and medical clients.
- **Hardware-context awareness**: Ingests datasheets from Octopart and schematics via Altium, combined with proprietary RAG, reducing hallucinations and ensuring generated code matches the actual components.
- **Deep industry relationships**: Partnerships with Altium and connections to Texas Instruments and other semiconductor vendors create a moat around component data and integration.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling the platform**: Expanding Hideout’s capabilities and onboarding more OEMs in regulated sectors (aviation, automotive, defense, medical robotics).
- **Ecosystem partnerships**: Deepening integrations with hardware vendors (e.g., Texas Instruments) and EDA tools to make Hideout the default AI layer for hardware development.
- **Certification as a service**: Positioning the platform as a “proxy of trust” to help customers confidently use AI in mission-critical workflows.
- **Talent acquisition**: Hiring founding engineers to accelerate product development and customer deployments.

## Why Work Here
- **High-impact mission**: Build the AI infrastructure that makes autonomous tractors, satellites, medical robots, and defense systems faster to develop and safer to certify.
- **Early-stage energy**: Join as a founding engineer (Software Engineer, Machine Learning Engineer, Firmware/Embedded Engineer) with significant ownership and influence.
- **Top-tier backing**: Backed by AlleyCorp and supported by accelerators like NVIDIA Inception and AWS Activate.
- **Culture**: Flat structure; team of 8 with a strong technical bias (5 of 8 in engineering/technical roles); co-founders with deep industry knowledge (CEO Ryan Eppley built heavy machinery; CTO Samarpita Chowdhury has firmware expertise).
- **Location**: Based in New York City; likely hybrid/office-first given hardware interaction needs; open roles listed as “New York City” on the careers page.
- **Perks**: Competitive equity for early employees; hands-on work with cutting-edge AI models, embedded systems, and certification processes.

## Sources
1. [Root Access website](https://rootaccess.ai/)
2. [Root Access Careers Page (Ashby)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/root-access)
3. [Root Access Company Page](https://www.rootaccess.ai/company)
4. [Root Access LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/root-access-ai)
5. [The Robot Report – Root Access raises $2.1M pre-seed](https://www.therobotreport.com/root-access-develops-tool-engineers-embedded-systems-raises-preseed-funding/)
6. [Root Access Documentation (Hideout)](https://docs.rootaccess.ai/)

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