Chief AI Simulation Engineer

association of arab universities; New York (NY); On-site; USD 425,000 - 525,000; Full time

Job summary

Aaru is seeking a Head of Simulation Engineering in New York City to lead and shape the interface used by research, platform, and infrastructure teams. This hands-on leadership role requires designing systems, writing and reviewing code, and expanding the simulation engineering team to deliver high-stakes AI-driven simulations.

The role combines technical depth with people leadership, aiming to build an exceptional team while driving performance, reliability, and fast iteration in a fast-moving

Responsibilities

• Own simulation quality in production across behavioral fidelity, calibration, latency, cost, reproducibility, and reliability.
• Define the architecture and operating model that carries a method from research prototype through evaluation, rollout, observation, and improvement.
• Build evaluation harnesses, benchmarks, ablations, graders, and regression tests that distinguish a faithful simulation from a merely plausible answer.
• Make large population runs observable and debuggable: version models, prompts, data, agent definitions, environments, and experiment configuration so results can be reproduced and explained.
• Partner with research to decide when a new method is ready to ship and what evidence is required before it becomes a customer-facing capability.
• Build tight feedback loops with deployment. Turn field failures and surprising outcomes into concrete hypotheses, experiments, fixes, and new research questions.
• Set clear interfaces and ownership across Simulation Research, Simulation Engineering, Infrastructure, and Platform.
• Hire, coach, and retain an exceptional team while continuing to unblock the hardest technical problems yourself.

Job description

Aaru is seeking a Head of Simulation Engineering in New York City to lead and shape the interface used by research, platform, and infrastructure teams. This hands-on leadership role requires designing systems, writing and reviewing code, and expanding the simulation engineering team to deliver high-stakes AI-driven simulations.

The role combines technical depth with people leadership, aiming to build an exceptional team while driving performance, reliability, and fast iteration in a fast-moving