Senior Python Engineer — Modeling & Wargaming (Remote)

Code Metal; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Code Metal in Boston, MA, is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead backend services and APIs for its wargaming and decision-support platform. You will design, implement, and scale distributed systems interfacing with ML pipelines, simulators, and data analysts to deliver decision-ready insights for defense stakeholders.

Responsibilities include scenario-generation workflows, Monte Carlo analyses, and cloud-scale infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Professional experience with enterprise-level software development in Python.
• Experience gathering requirements from stakeholders and distilling them into software designs.
• Experience building robust software with strong SDLC practices including code review, testing, CI, 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.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement backend services and APIs that orchestrate mission- and campaign-level simulation runs and expose results to analysts and government stakeholders.
• Build scenario-generation, operational and mission planning workflows, and Monte-Carlo based sensitivity-analysis for our 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 insights for defense users.
• Develop scalable APIs (REST, GraphQL, gRPC) and containerized services connecting 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.

Skills

Python development

Requirements gathering

SDLC practices

APIs (REST, GraphQL, gRPC)

Machine learning tools/frameworks

Tools

Docker

Job description

Code Metal in Boston, MA, is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead backend services and APIs for its wargaming and decision-support platform. You will design, implement, and scale distributed systems interfacing with ML pipelines, simulators, and data analysts to deliver decision-ready insights for defense stakeholders.

Responsibilities include scenario-generation workflows, Monte Carlo analyses, and cloud-scale infrastructure.