Principal Python Engineer - Modeling & Simulation

Code Metal, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401k matching

Paid time off

Hybrid or remote work

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Code Metal, Inc. is building a next‑generation wargaming and decision‑support platform for DoD customers.

As a backend engineer, you will design and implement scalable backend services, APIs (REST, GraphQL, gRPC), and data pipelines that drive simulation runs and output analysis for government stakeholders. You will work with Python, Docker, and cloud‑based distributed systems, while applying formal SDLC practices, requirements gathering, and performance tuning to deliver robust,

Qualifications

• Professional experience with collaborative, enterprise‑level software development in Python, delivering products to a large customer base.
• Experience gathering requirements from stakeholders and distilling them into software designs.
• Experience building and delivering robust software using strong SDLC practices, including code review, testing, continuous integration, release management, and build systems.
• Familiarity with machine learning tools and frameworks.
• Expertise building scalable APIs (REST, GraphQL, gRPC).
• Hands-on experience with Docker and containerized application development.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement backend services and APIs that orchestrate mission- and campaign-level simulation runs, collect their outputs, and expose results to analysts and government stakeholders.
• Build scenario-generation, operational and mission planning workflows, and key services for Monte-Carlo based sensitivity-analysis for our wargaming and decision-support platform.
• Build distributed, cloud-scale infrastructure that scales simulations across developer workstations, on-premises infrastructure, and cloud compute while preserving reproducibility and model provenance.
• Build data ingestion, normalization, and analysis pipelines that turn raw simulation output into decision-ready insight for defense users.
• Build scalable APIs (REST, GraphQL, gRPC) and containerized services that connect the Python tooling layer to the core simulation runtime and downstream analysis tools.
• Gather requirements from government stakeholders, domain experts, and analysts, and distill them into clear software designs.
• Employ strong SDLC practices throughout - code review, testing, continuous integration, release management, and build systems.

Skills

Python

APIs (REST, GraphQL, gRPC)

SDLC practices

Requirements gathering

Machine learning tools familiarity

Tools

Docker

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Code Metal, Inc. is building a next‑generation wargaming and decision‑support platform for DoD customers.

As a backend engineer, you will design and implement scalable backend services, APIs (REST, GraphQL, gRPC), and data pipelines that drive simulation runs and output analysis for government stakeholders. You will work with Python, Docker, and cloud‑based distributed systems, while applying formal SDLC practices, requirements gathering, and performance tuning to deliver robust,