Simulation Manager

York Space Systems; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

York Space Systems seeks a senior leader to own the simulation software products in Austin. Lead a team of 8-12 engineers, drive roadmaps, release cadences, and versioning strategies while aligning with internal and external stakeholders to deliver reliable simulation tools.

You will foster growth, manage multiple products, and ensure quality through documentation, testing, and production-grade software practices aligned to program milestones.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• 3+ years leading or mentoring engineers.
• Experience with Python and C++ (performance-sensitive code).
• Knowledge of physics-based modeling, numerical methods, or control systems.
• Experience leading others in software development and release processes.
• Strong communication and prioritization across multiple products.
• Willingness to work full-time in our Austin, TX office.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of 8-12 engineers with leadership, direction, and performance.
• Set priorities across three simulation products and scale the group.
• Own roadmaps, release cadences, and versioning strategies.
• Communicate status, risks, and trade-offs to SIT leadership.
• Gather feedback and requirements from stakeholders for features and fixes.
• Improve software development, testing, and deployment practices.
• Ensure product documentation and training records are maintained.
• Monitor releases and ensure stability for deployment.

Skills

Leadership

Python

C++

Communication

Production-grade software

Education

Bachelor's degree in Aerospace/Mechanical/Physics/CS or related

Tools

Docker

Job description

The simulation domain owns York's physics simulator and the model of the spacecraft that flight software is tested against. Alongside it, the interface emulators stand in for real avionics interfaces,anAPI exposesfaultinterfaces tomanipulatemodels, anda messengerapplicationattachesfor reading and loggingsimulationmessages. This team builds new simulation capabilities, proves they are correct, and authors the mission scenarios that exercise them. When a regression test passes againstour simulation, the flight software team needs to be able to trust that the spacecraft would behave the same way in orbit.

In this role you will ownour simulationtoolsproducts, not just ascodebases. That means a real roadmap and release cadence, versioned models and documented interfaces, and clear commitments to the teams that depend on your simulations.You will keep the overall vision of the simulation domain organized andalignedwith the requirements of internal and external stakeholders, assuring that quality work gets donein a timely manner.You will foster the growth of all simulation products as well as the engineers on your team building andmaintainingthem.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of 8-12 engineers with strong leadership skills, including tasking, technical direction, career growth, and performance
• Set priorities across the three simulation products, working through a designated engineering lead for each, and grow that structure as the group scales
• Own the simulation product roadmaps, release cadences, and versioning strategies
• Communicate status, risks, and trade-offs clearly to SIT leadership and internal stakeholders
• Interact with stakeholders and customers to gather feedback and requirements for feature requests and bugfixes
• Implementand improvesoftware development, testing, anddeploymentpractices that meet division and department standards for software
• Ensure quality ofproduct documentation, user guides,training,and model validation records
• Manage andmonitorreleases and ensure products are stable for deployment

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or greater in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, or related field
• 8+ years of experience in software engineering or a related field
• 3+ yearsofexperience leading or mentoring engineers, including tasking and technical direction
• Demonstrated development experience in both Python and C++, including performance-sensitive code
• Working knowledge of physics-based modeling, numerical methods, or control systems
• Experience leading others in software development, whether as a manager, technical lead, or both
• Experience designing, building,deployingand operating software applications in a production environment
• Experience withsoftware productrelease processes
• Strong communicationskills and the ability to set priorities across multiple concurrent products and stakeholders
• Ability to communicate technical tradeoffs, priorities, and progress clearly to both engineers and leadership
• Experience with writing test documentation, such as test plans, procedures, reports, and defect records
• Capable of managing multiple tasks while delivering according to program milestones and release commitments

• Willingness to work full-time in our Austin, TX office; this position does not support remote or hybrid work.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with both product and people management, including owning a roadmap and release cadence
• Background in orbital mechanics, attitude dynamics, or GN&C
• Experience emulating hardware interfaces or spacecraft bus protocols
• Experiencevalidatingsimulation models against test or flight data
• Experience designing and versioning APIs consumed by other teams
• Familiarity with spacecraft flight software and avionics architectures
• Experience with real-time or discrete-event simulation frameworks
• Experience with Docker and containerization
• Experience with Software-in-the-Loop (SITL) and/or Hardware-in-the-Loop (HITL) test systems
• Experience in end-to-end, system-level automated testing
• Experience with agentic or AI-assisted software development workflowsAbilitytointerface withand handle flight hardware
• Familiarity with the space domain and satellite operations
• Networking concepts like UDP/TCP
• Active Top Secret security clearance or ability to obtain