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# SME – Automotive (Copy) at Synthbee

- **Company:** Synthbee
- **Location:** Headquarters
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-05-15
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/synthbee/am9icG9zdDrv2o1SoxENBM4im6OyGGam

## Job description

SME - Automotive (CAE, Simulation Analysis and FEA)

About SynthBee Inc. At SynthBee, we’re building Collaborative Intelligence™ (CI™)—maximizing the potential of people and computers working together. CI™ will help humans solve the most important scientific, engineering, design, and creative challenges of our time. We bridge the gap between cutting-edge AI and mission-critical physical systems to create safer, smarter industries.

## Role Description

As an SME - Automotive, you will be the primary link between SynthBee’s agentic technologies and the rigorous physics-based engineering standards of our Tier-1 automotive partners. You will act as the "physical conscience" of our deployment team, ensuring that our software systems are not only high-performing in simulation but are able to augment pipelines optimized for real-world manufacturing processes.

Required Qualifications

- Advanced CAE/FEA Expertise: Mastery of structural analysis and simulation-driven design. Proven ability to interpret complex FEA results (Abaqus, Ansys, or NASTRAN) and translate them into actionable design modifications.
- Simulation-to-Physical Correlation: Proven track record of validating digital twin/CAE models against physical test data. You know why a simulation fails to match reality and how to tune the model accordingly.
- Technical Customer Liaison: Experience acting as the technical "face" of a project, communicating complex mechanical trade-offs to both executive stakeholders and software developers.
- Automotive Regulatory & Quality Familiarity: Hands-on experience working within stringent automotive Quality Management Systems (like IATF 16949) and safety standards enforced by agencies like NHTSA (FMVSS) or UNECE. Working knowledge of applying overarching frameworks alongside domain-specific standards like ISO 26262 (Functional Safety) and ASPICE.
- Requirements Engineering: Ability to elicit and define "testable" mechanical requirements—ensuring that design intent is preserved from the initial PRD through to the final V&V (Verification & Validation) report.
- Deep Manufacturing Literacy: Hands-on experience designing for and simulating at least two of the following: High-speed machining, Sheet Metal (stamping/pressing), Injection Molding, or Additive Manufacturing. Understanding of how different variables affect part performance.
- Client-Specific Verification & Validation: Participated in the development and execution of V&V strategies to ensure the final product is verified against technical specs and validated for the client's use. Familiar with generating the rigorous testing documentation required to definitively prove client requirements have been satisfied.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Software Literacy: Understanding of Software Engineering fundamentals (Git, Python, Java, Go, Typescript) and how ML models interface with agentic software systems.
- PLM & Data Integrity: Experience managing complex BOMs and requirement architectures within PLM systems (Teamcenter, Windchill, or Enovia).
- Mechanical & Product Design: Experience in full-lifecycle mechanical design, moving from conceptual sketches to production-ready, complex structural assemblies.

## Key Responsibilities

- Physical Grounding of AI: Provide the domain expertise to ensure SynthBee’s agentic systems produce designs that are physically viable.
- CAE Strategy Lead: Guide client stakeholders on how to integrate SynthBee’s output into their existing simulation pipelines, ensuring mesh integrity and boundary condition accuracy.
- Design for Manufacturability (DfM) Oversight: Review generated geometry to ensure compatibility with machining tool-paths, mold draft angles, or sheet metal bend radii.
- Cross-Functional Translation: Act as the "translator" between SynthBee’s Software/ML teams and the client’s mechanical engineering, design, and product teams.
- Root Cause Analysis: Utilize engineering fundamentals to troubleshoot system-level failures in the field, bridging the gap between digital predictions and physical hardware outcomes.

Note: In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), those functions of the job which are identified essential are required to be performed with or without reasonable accommodations. Requests to facilitate the performance of essential functions will be given careful consideration. Please review SynthBee’s policy on reasonable accommodations in the BeeKeeper’s Guide.

## About Synthbee

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: SynthBee builds a Collaborative Intelligence™ platform that combines human and machine capabilities to solve complex scientific, engineering, design, and creative challenges at extreme speed.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A; total raised $100M)
- **Headquarters**: Weston, Florida, United States (also listed as Hollywood, FL)
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Rony Abovitz (Founder & CEO); Aditya Navada (COO and Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Enterprise Software, Artificial Intelligence, Collaborative Intelligence, Defense, Aerospace, Automotive, Healthcare, Fintech
- Target customers: B2B, Enterprise, Government (aerospace, defense, automotive, healthcare, fintech, robotics)
- Mission or purpose statement: “Building safe, scalable, and reliable computing intelligence to amplify human innovation.”

## Products & Services
- **[Collaborative Intelligence™ Platform]**: A proprietary platform that helps enterprises solve complex scientific, engineering, design, compliance, and creative challenges in minutes instead of weeks or months. It emphasizes high accuracy, privacy, reliability, human control, and clear auditability. Type: SaaS / Platform.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $100M (Series A: $80M in Feb 2026 from Crosspoint Capital Partners; Seed: $20M in Oct 2024 from Crosspoint Capital Partners)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Crosspoint Capital Partners (lead investor), Qudit (participant)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 150% YoY (from ~3 to 7 employees); expanding into aerospace, defense, automotive, fintech, and healthcare sectors; partnering with University of Miami classrooms; named one of South Florida Business Journal’s “25 Startups to Watch in 2025”.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Founder pedigree**: Rony Abovitz previously founded MAKO Surgical (acquired by Stryker) and Magic Leap (AR leader), bringing deep experience in hardware, software, and complex systems.
- **Differentiation**: Focus on “Collaborative Intelligence” as a safe alternative to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), emphasizing human control, auditability, and mission-critical reliability.
- **Privacy & security**: Platform designed for high-privacy, high-reliability environments (defense, aerospace, healthcare) with clear audit trails.

## Strategic Focus
- Current priorities: Scaling the platform for enterprise and government clients; expanding into regulated industries (aerospace, defense, healthcare, automotive); building out the engineering and product teams; deepening partnerships in South Florida’s growing tech/quantum ecosystem.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Emphasis on creativity, ethics, decency, and solving “super hard problems.” The company values independent thinking, collaboration, and a passion for music, art, science, and robotics.
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: Hybrid workspace – employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work (typical time on-site not specified).
- **Notable perks or engineering culture**: Equal opportunity employer; open roles across engineering (DevOps, ML, Security, Cloud, Systems, Front-end/Full-stack), applied science, program/product management, and quality management. Opportunities to work on cutting-edge collaborative intelligence for mission-critical systems. Some roles may require US security clearance.

## Sources
1. [synthbee.com](https://www.synthbee.com/)
2. [synthbee.com/join-us](https://www.synthbee.com/join-us)
3. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/synthbee)
4. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/synthbee-inc)
5. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/synthbee-inc)

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