Job Summary

Flexcompute is seeking a motivated Software Engineer (python) to support our Tidy3D Python API development efforts. In this role, you will be responsible for our documentation infrastructure, improve our python packaging and continuous-integration deployments, and support the development of our python API design for scalability, maintainability, and ease-of-use. The candidate will gain experience working with highly experienced professionals and be an integral part of the product development, release, maintenance, and support phases.

What You Will Do

• Documentation Maintenance and Feature Improvements (~50%):
• Maintain and enhance existing documentation features using Sphinx extensions and develop further our own custom extension.
• Manage documentation GitHub submodules integrations, web domain deployments, URL compositions, SEO redirects, and webhook integrations as the project scales.
• Compose documentation using reStructuredText and sphinx.
• Use HTML/CSS/JS to improve web documentation aesthetics and functionality for our users.
• Continuous Integration (CI) (~25%):
• Improve our Python dependency management across multiple interrelated repositories as we scale towards more multi-physics and decoupled projects.
• Develop and maintain CI/GitHub Actions scripts.
• Automate bash scripts to streamline development workflows.
• API Design and Modularization Support (~25%):
• Assist in designing a clean pydantic API to support modularization efforts as we scale towards multi-physics multi-solver software.
• Contribute to multi-project API interface testing schemes.
• Collaborate with the team to ensure robust and extensible frontend and backend API design principles.