Thanks. It does feel the same here. The jobs are quite niche and the pay not so great (comparatively to the demands of the job), and often a Ph.d is required.
I’ve always wondered if jobs like this exist, but I’ve never actually seen a job posting for one. As a developer with a math degree, these kinds of jobs have always been something of a dream for me. Any tips on where to look?
For simulation type jobs where you are solving PDEs for some kind of nontrivial domain:
* universities sometimes have scientific programmers
* national labs in your country will definitely have some people doing such work
* big names in industry, engineering and manufacturing e.g. in the past petroleum exploration companies used to hire quite a few people
* boutique consulting firms that you never heard of (you need to do a lot of research in your area to find them)
* Mathworks and similar names that develop engineering software
For programming jobs including some math in general, well I'm jumping on the hype train that is ML/DL because the jobs are more numerous and pay better even when factoring in the currently hype.