Production Simulation Engineering Manager

Aaru; New York (NY); On-site; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Aaru, an in-person team in New York, seeks a Simulation Engineering Manager to lead a focused team and maintain the health of its production simulation system. You will set technical direction, review designs, and contribute code as needed while hiring and developing the team.

You will work at the interface of Simulation Research, Population Research, Prediction Research, Evaluation, Product Engineering, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, and Deployment, ensuring explicit handoffs and strong

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.

Job description

Aaru, an in-person team in New York, seeks a Simulation Engineering Manager to lead a focused team and maintain the health of its production simulation system. You will set technical direction, review designs, and contribute code as needed while hiring and developing the team.

You will work at the interface of Simulation Research, Population Research, Prediction Research, Evaluation, Product Engineering, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, and Deployment, ensuring explicit handoffs and strong