Senior Software Engineer – Simulation & Productization

Technology Innovation Institute; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 300,000 - 450,000; Full time

Job summary

Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in Abu Dhabi hosts a Propulsion and Space Research Centre focusing on software engineering for propulsion and flight-vehicle research. The Senior Software Engineer will productize the software backbone, evolve it into reusable components and ensure robust deployment across multiple programmes.

The role emphasizes physics-based simulation, AI-enabled tools, and hardware-in-the-loop capabilities, in a small, autonomous team, with a strong product mindset and

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of experience building and shipping production-grade software.
• Experience with numerical, scientific or engineering software domains (aerospace, energy, automotive, etc.).
• Proven track record shipping software through full lifecycle including deployment, operation, maintenance and support.
• Experience making API decisions, handling upgrades, and maintaining software products.
• Strong CI/CD, DevOps, containerization, environment management and release engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Evolve the engineering platform into configurable, reusable products supporting multiple programmes and external customers.
• Develop backend/frontend capabilities using Python/FastAPI and React.
• Support platform capabilities covering requirements, system models, test campaigns and evidence registers.
• Improve frontend experience, documentation, installation, upgrades, maintainability and security hardening.
• Apply product-minded thinking to software architecture, roadmaps and total cost of ownership.
• Own CI/CD and release engineering across the product, with automated pipelines and regression suites.
• Develop and integrate numerical/simulation software with robust APIs and library versioning.
• Design pipelines for test data ingestion (TDMS/HDF5) and engineering evidence outputs.
• Collaborate across hardware integration, real-time targets and data acquisition systems.

Skills

Python

Full-stack development

API design

Software architecture

Code reviews

CI/CD

DevOps

Linux

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science/Software Engineering/Computer Engineering

Advanced engineering/science qualifications

Tools

FastAPI

Django

Node.js

.NET

React

Angular

Git

Linux

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in Abu Dhabi hosts a Propulsion and Space Research Centre focusing on software engineering for propulsion and flight-vehicle research. The Senior Software Engineer will productize the software backbone, evolve it into reusable components and ensure robust deployment across multiple programmes.

The role emphasizes physics-based simulation, AI-enabled tools, and hardware-in-the-loop capabilities, in a small, autonomous team, with a strong product mindset and