Production AI Simulation Engineering Lead

Aaru; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity participation

Comprehensive medical, vision, and +d

Visa sponsorship and relocation

Job summary

Aaru in New York hosts a role for Simulation Engineering Manager to lead a focused team of Simulation Engineers, owning the quality, pace, and health of the production simulation system. You will set technical direction, review designs, and contribute hands-on when needed.

You will collaborate across Simulation Research, Population Research, Evaluation, Product and Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, and Deployment to ensure robust handoffs and evidence for productionization while maintaining

Responsibilities

• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team of Simulation Engineers with clear ownership of production simulation quality.
• Own quality across behavioral fidelity, calibration, reproducibility, latency, throughput, cost, reliability, debuggability, and safe operation.
• Define the architecture and operating model that carries a method from research prototype through evaluation, integration, rollout, observation, and continuous improvement.
• Establish clear readiness criteria with Research and Evaluation: strong baselines, decisive experiments, protected holdouts, known limitations, and evidence that survives changes in domain, population, and time.
• Design and maintain the core abstractions of the simulation system, including agent and population representations, simulation contracts, environment and state models, workflow boundaries, evaluation interfaces, and publication layers.
• Build evaluation harnesses, benchmarks, ablations, graders, regression suites, and launch scorecards that distinguish a faithful simulation from a merely plausible output.
• Make large simulation runs reproducible and inspectable by versioning models, prompts, data, populations, environments, code, and experiment configuration.
• Build observability that connects system behavior to model behavior: traces, intermediate artifacts, cohort diagnostics, cost and latency curves, failure classification, and comparison across versions.
• Set technical direction for scaling large population runs without concealing uncertainty or trading away fidelity.
• Partner with Product Engineering to adapt the simulation system for new product goals while preserving valid contracts and avoiding product-specific forks in the core engine.
• Build fast feedback loops with Deployment. Convert field failures, surprising customer outcomes, and operational incidents into concrete hypotheses, durable tests, fixes, and research questions.
• Own the team’s production operations, including on-call health, incident response, release safety, rollback, maintenance, and the elimination of recurring operational toil.
• Recruit exceptional engineers, provide direct feedback, develop technical leaders, and address performance or ownership gaps early.
• Improve engineering practice across Aaru by raising the bar for experimental discipline, production code, technical design, reproducibility, and post-incident learning.

Job description

Aaru in New York hosts a role for Simulation Engineering Manager to lead a focused team of Simulation Engineers, owning the quality, pace, and health of the production simulation system. You will set technical direction, review designs, and contribute hands-on when needed.

You will collaborate across Simulation Research, Population Research, Evaluation, Product and Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, and Deployment to ensure robust handoffs and evidence for productionization while maintaining