Senior Software Engineering Manager, Simulation Platforms

Highlights

• Build high-fidelity simulators to test Fury jets and Barracuda missiles.
• Modernize legacy monolithic sims into modular architectures with stable APIs.
• Model sophisticated adversary behaviors for contested mission environments.

Ideal candidate

Mission-driven engineering leader who loves scaling high-performing teams and partnering with customers to modernize critical defense simulation for next-gen air dominance.

Requirements

• Active U.S. Top Secret (TS) security clearance
• 5+ years managing software engineering teams, hiring, scaling and developing talent
• 5+ years hands-on software development with complex systems architecture and API design
• Experience developing, deploying and testing software in secure, classified or air-gapped environments
• Experience partnering with business development, writing technical proposals and scoping government contracts
• Proven ability to manage customer expectations and negotiate delivery across competing priorities
• Prior modeling and simulation experience in defense, preferably federating multiple simulators (preferred)
• Familiarity translating intelligence assessments into high-fidelity modeled environments (preferred)
• Familiarity with defense acquisition and innovation organizations such as AFLCMC, TRMC or DIU (preferred)