Staff Simulation Engineer – Modeling & Simulation

Jobtailor; Deutschland; Remote; EUR 120.000 - 180.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Jobtailor is seeking a senior simulation software engineer to design and implement mission-level capabilities using C++ and Python. You will extend event-driven and agent-based frameworks, own core scheduling and data collection, and translate complex requirements into robust models.

You will collaborate with DoD stakeholders, lead reviews, mentor teammates, and help modernize legacy tools while ensuring reproducible results and strong verifiability.

Qualifikationen

• Five+ years of professional software development experience in simulation, autonomy, robotics, or digital twin domains.
• Strong C++ development experience with Python tooling.
• Experience extending a simulation framework and plugins/SDKs.
• Familiarity with event-driven and distributed simulation architectures.
• Ability to translate requirements into software models with clear interfaces.
• Clear documentation of model assumptions and interfaces.

Aufgaben

• Design and implement mission- and campaign-level simulation capabilities in modern C++ and Python.
• Build and extend event-driven, discrete-event, agent-based, and constructive simulation frameworks.
• Own core framework functionality including event scheduling, time, state transitions, and data collection.
• Collaborate with DoD stakeholders to deliver usable capabilities quickly.
• Lead design reviews, mentor teammates, and improve architecture and testing practices.

Kenntnisse

C++

Python

Simulation Frameworks

Event-Driven Architecture

Agent-Based Simulation

Model Calibration

Data Structures

Algorithms

APIs

Performance Engineering

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in CS/Engineering/Applied Math/Physics

Tools

AFSIM

HLA

DIS

OneSAF

JSAF

NGTS

STK

Jobbeschreibung

• Design and implement mission- and campaign-level simulation capabilities in modern C++ and Python
• Build and extend event-driven, discrete-event, agent-based, and constructive simulation frameworks
• Own core framework functionality, including event scheduling, simulation time, state transitions, platform abstractions, scenario execution, data collection, and deterministic replay
• Develop models for platforms, sensors, weapons, communications, electronic warfare, jamming, command and control, logistics, and environmental effects
• Extend AFSIM and comparable simulation environments through C++ plugins, framework services, SDK integrations, new platform types, and reusable model interfaces
• Translate operational concepts, system specifications, and subject-matter expertise into maintainable software models with explicit assumptions and testable behavior
• Modernize legacy campaign and mission-analysis tools and integrate them into a coherent simulation architecture
• Build scenario-generation, Monte Carlo, sensitivity-analysis, campaign-execution, and evaluation workflows
• Scale simulations across developer workstations, on-premises infrastructure, and cloud compute while preserving reproducibility and model provenance
• Connect constructive simulations with distributed, operational, hardware-in-the-loop, or human-in-the-loop environments where appropriate
• Establish verification and validation practices, reference scenarios, regression suites, and quantitative measures of model credibility
• Work directly with government, Air Force, and broader DoD stakeholders to understand acquisition questions and deliver usable capabilities quickly
• Collaborate with physics, backend, geospatial, AI, and product teams to integrate the simulation kernel into a larger interactive platform
• Lead design and code reviews, mentor teammates, and improve architecture, documentation, testing, and release practices
• At staff level, define and enforce testing standards, provide architectural guidance, own design documents for major projects, scope complex initiatives, audit technical risks, review high-impact work, lead technical grooming and RFCs, and coordinate across pods

Requirements

• Five or more years of professional software-development experience building simulation, autonomy, robotics, game-engine, digital-twin, or similarly complex systems
• Strong production experience in modern C++, with proficiency in Python for tooling, orchestration, analysis, or automation
• Hands-on experience developing or extending a simulation framework
• Experience with event-driven, discrete-event, agent-based, constructive, or distributed simulation architectures
• Demonstrated ability to represent complex real-world entities, interactions, rules, and edge cases as clear software abstractions
• Experience building plugins, SDKs, reusable model interfaces, framework services, platform types, or similar extension mechanisms
• Strong understanding of software architecture, data structures, algorithms, APIs, testing, debugging, and performance engineering
• Experience making substantial changes within a large existing codebase while maintaining ongoing delivery
• Experience with model verification, validation, calibration, or regression testing
• Ability to turn ambiguous operational or technical requirements into executable engineering plans
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to document model assumptions, limitations, interfaces, and intended use
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in computer science, engineering, applied mathematics, operations research, physics, or a related discipline
• Active Secret clearance or eligibility to obtain one
• Direct experience developing AFSIM plugins, framework extensions, event infrastructure, or custom platform types is strongly preferred
• Experience with behavior trees, finite state machines, and planning languages such as PDDL is strongly preferred
• Experience supporting Air Force, Space Force, joint, or broader DoD acquisition and mission-analysis programs is strongly preferred
• Experience developing models for sensors, weapons, electronic warfare, jamming, communications, logistics, or command and control is strongly preferred
• Experience translating or modernizing a large legacy modeling or campaign-analysis system into C++ is strongly preferred
• Experience designing a simulation framework, event stack, plugin architecture, or campaign system from the ground up is strongly preferred
• Familiarity with HLA, DIS, OneSAF, JSAF, NGTS, STK, or other constructive and distributed simulation environments is strongly preferred
• Experience spanning both operational and constructive simulation is strongly preferred
• Active TS/SCI clearance is strongly preferred
• Staff level expectation: 7+ years of experience

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in modern C++ and Python for simulation development, with a strong focus on building and extending complex simulation frameworks. Proven ability to translate operational concepts into maintainable software models while ensuring model verification and validation.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Modern C++ Development
• Python Proficiency
• Simulation Framework Development
• Model Verification and Validation
• Event-Driven Simulation Architecture

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• C++
• Python
• Simulation Frameworks
• Event-Driven Architecture
• Agent-Based Simulation
• Model Calibration
• Data Structures
• Algorithms
• APIs
• Performance Engineering

Soft Skills

• Strong Communication Skills
• Mentoring
• Collaboration

Certifications & Qualifications

• Active Secret Clearance
• Active TS/SCI Clearance

Industry Keywords

• DoD Acquisition
• Mission Analysis
• Robotics
• Game Engine
• Digital Twin
• Electronic Warfare
• Command and Control
• Logistics

Tools & Technologies

• AFSIM
• HLA
• DIS
• OneSAF
• JSAF
• NGTS
• STK