Director of Digital Twins & AI-Driven Platforms

North Wind

Minnesota

On-site

USD 135,000 - 250,000

Full time

12 days ago
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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.

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