Senior Real-Time Simulation Architect

Triwill Group; United States; Remote; USD 200,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401k match

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Utilidata is seeking a senior architect to own KDE, the simulation platform powering Karman. You will lead end-to-end architecture across sub-millisecond control paths and system-level orchestration, ensuring deterministic, scalable performance for validation before production deployment.

The role requires 10+ years in high-performance distributed systems, hands-on leadership, and strong communication. Travel up to 25% and collaboration with multiple teams are expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, Physics, or a related field
• 10+ years in systems architecture, simulation platforms, real-time or hardware-in-the-loop systems, embedded systems, or high-performance distributed platforms
• Experience as a hands-on player-coach leading small, high-performing engineering teams
• A proven track record designing and delivering simulation platforms or large-scale test systems that other engineering teams treat as production hardware, including data ingestion, telemetry, and playback at production scale
• Deep expertise in system-level behavior — scheduling, concurrency, memory access patterns, latency budgets, jitter measurement, and determinism at sub-millisecond scale
• Substantive fluency in the physics of the simulated domain — AC power distribution, control-loop dynamics, and electrical protection systems
• Experience leading or contributing to a novel modeling problem in the platform's domain
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate complex system designs for technical and non-technical stakeholders alike
• Willingness to travel up to 25% of time

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end architecture of KDE as the simulation platform for developing, testing, and validating Karman before production deployment
• Architect systems spanning heterogeneous time domains — from sub-millisecond control paths to system-level orchestration — with coherent time management and deterministic behavior across both
• Design and evolve the core simulation platform: time synchronization across paced (real-time SIL) and unpaced (batch) execution modes, signal routing and data flow orchestration, deterministic replay and scenario execution, and the platform APIs and data contracts consumed by algorithm, QA, product, and GTM teams
• Define and maintain the platform's performance envelope — latency, jitter, throughput, and fidelity — and lead optimization across the full stack
• Serve as the technical authority for simulation and validation methodology, partnering with algorithm, QA, product, hardware, firmware, and GTM teams to align platform capabilities with real-world Karman deployments
• Build and lead an engineering team spanning real-time systems, simulation infrastructure, power systems modeling, and GPU calibration, while remaining deeply hands-on in architecture and critical technical decisions
• Represent KDE on a standing cross-functional council with Algorithms, Product, GTM, and QA, arbitrating priorities across the platform's customers and maintaining architectural direction with senior peers

Skills

10+ years experience

Hands-on leadership

Simulation platforms

Real-time systems

Debugging performance

Strong communication

Travel willingness

Education

Bachelor's or advanced degree in Electrical Eng./CS/Robotics/Physics

Job description

Utilidata is seeking a senior architect to own KDE, the simulation platform powering Karman. You will lead end-to-end architecture across sub-millisecond control paths and system-level orchestration, ensuring deterministic, scalable performance for validation before production deployment.

The role requires 10+ years in high-performance distributed systems, hands-on leadership, and strong communication. Travel up to 25% and collaboration with multiple teams are expected.