Director of Digital Twins & AI-Driven Platforms

North Wind; Minnesota; On-site; USD 135,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

North Wind is seeking a visionary Director, Digital Platforms to lead architecture, development, and deployment of digital twins, M&S frameworks, and advanced digital engineering toolchains across secure environments.

You will manage multi-disciplinary teams, drive advanced computational modeling, and ensure integration with mission tools while operating from Minnesota. This executive role requires deep physics intuition and leadership in defense contexts.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or Ph.D. in a quantitative field (physics, engineering, CS).
• 10+ years RDT&E in physics-based modeling or digital twin development.
• 5+ years leading multi-disciplinary teams on defense or national security programs.
• Proven track record as PI or key program lead on DoD/DARPA/DHS initiatives.
• Hands-on model validation, calibration, and synthetic data generation.
• Experience deploying software in regulated environments (CUI, Secret, TS/SCI).

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership over North Wind’s digital twin, digital engineering, and M&S technology roadmap.
• Direct the lifecycle from model development to cloud-native digital twin deployments.
• Lead multi-disciplinary teams of scientists and software engineers.
• Drive integration of reduced-order modeling, PINNs, synthetic data pipelines, and DAQ workflows.
• Partner with executives and DoD stakeholders to feed mission tools with digital platform capabilities.

Skills

Digital Twin

Modeling & Simulation

C++

Python

HPC

AI/ML integration

Leadership

PI experience

Education

Master’s or PhD in Physics/Engineering/CS

Tools

OpenFOAM

ANSYS

GEANT4

MCNP

Julia

ModelingToolkit.jl

OpenModelica

Python

C++

Job description

North Wind is seeking a visionary Director, Digital Platforms to lead architecture, development, and deployment of digital twins, M&S frameworks, and advanced digital engineering toolchains across secure environments.

You will manage multi-disciplinary teams, drive advanced computational modeling, and ensure integration with mission tools while operating from Minnesota. This executive role requires deep physics intuition and leadership in defense contexts.