Full-time employee · hybrid, remote possible · Pont-Saint-Martin (Aosta Valley), Italy · start November 2026 – January 2027

About Zephyra

Zephyra (QTool S.r.l.) is a deep-tech innovative SME based in Pont-Saint-Martin, in the Aosta Valley, Italy. We build a Physical AI platform for autonomous and sustainable manufacturing. Our vision is to cut global emissions by 1% by 2050, the equivalent of planting more than half a billion trees every year.

We develop cutting-edge 3D modelling software and physics simulation techniques 1000 times faster than the state of the art. These tools drastically reduce industrial scrap and energy consumption. We work with leading companies in Italy and abroad. We are a small team that aims for excellence and ownership from day 0.

The job in one paragraph

Our platform is built for the manufacturing shop floor, making advanced tools accessible to machine operators and engineering teams: a user uploads a part and the technical needs, and the platform reads the tolerances, checks manufacturability, estimates the cost, and runs physical simulations such as cooling and warpage. You will own the data and machine-learning side of that: surrogate models that make the simulations fast, calibration of the models on real production data, and the first models that predict cost, time and defects; your models run for real customers within weeks.

What you will do

- Surrogates. Train machine-learning models (neural operators, geometric deep learning) on thousands of our own simulation runs, so results arrive in seconds.
- Calibration. Fit the simulation models to real production data and state how sure the result is.
- Prediction. Build models that predict cost, time and defects from simulation results and plant records.
- Code. Python (PyTorch or JAX) and SQL; reproducible pipelines, tests and reviews on every change.

What we look for

- Master's or PhD in data science, applied mathematics, computational engineering or physics; 0–3 years after the degree (a strong thesis counts).




- Deep learning you have trained and debugged yourself; geometric deep learning (graphs, point clouds, neural operators) is a big plus.
- Gradient boosting and classical statistics as daily tools; uncertainty quantification.
- Comfortable with simulation data and sensor time series, and with SQL on a real database.
- Experience with Physics Informed Machine Learning is a strong plus.
- Manufacturing experience is a plus.
- English as the working language; Italian a plus.

What you get

- A product where your model's number is used on the shop floor the same week.
- Data nobody else has: our own simulation runs on thousands of parts and real plant records; the cluster and the GPUs you need.
- Hybrid work from the Aosta Valley office (1 h from Turin, close to Grenoble and Lausanne); relocation help for the right candidate.
- Full-time employee contract under the Italian CCNL ICT (CIFA–CONFSAL); apprenticeship contract for candidates under 30. Gross annual salary €20,000–50,000, depending on experience.
- A thesis-to-hire path: we also take master's/PhD theses on surrogates and calibration.

How to apply

Apply here with your CV and add one thing you built — a model, a notebook, a paper, a repository (a link is enough). Three steps: a 30-minute call, a technical session on a real case, an offer. If you would need a work permit for Italy, say so in your application.

Annuncio in inglese perché è la lingua di lavoro del team. Contratto italiano da dipendente a tempo completo (CCNL ICT CIFA–CONFSAL); apprendistato professionalizzante per chi ha meno di 30 anni. Retribuzione annua lorda: 20.000–50.000 €, in base all'esperienza. Sede: Pont-Saint-Martin (AO), lavoro ibrido, remoto possibile. Il presente annuncio è rivolto a entrambi i sessi, ai sensi delle leggi 903/77 e 125/91, e a persone di tutte le età e tutte le nazionalità, ai sensi dei decreti legislativi 215/03 e 216/03. I dati personali sono trattati ai sensi del Regolamento (UE) 2016/679 ai soli fini della selezione; per informazioni: [email protected].

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: €20,000.00 - €50,000.00 per year

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Pont-Saint-Martin, Valle d'Aosta

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