Senior / Principal Model and Simulation Engineer

Design and implement mission- and campaign-level simulation capabilities in modern C++ and Python.

Build and extend event-driven, discrete-event, agent-based, and constructive simulation frameworks.

Own core framework functionality including event scheduling, simulation time, state transitions, platform abstractions, scenario execution, data collection, and deterministic replay.

Develop models for platforms, sensors, weapons, communications, electronic warfare, jamming, command and control, logistics, and environmental effects.

Extend AFSIM and comparable simulation environments through C++ plugins, framework services, SDK integrations, new platform types, and reusable model interfaces.

Translate operational concepts, system specifications, and subject-matter expertise into maintainable software models with explicit assumptions and testable behavior.

Modernize legacy campaign and mission-analysis tools and integrate them into a coherent simulation architecture.

Build scenario-generation, Monte Carlo, sensitivity-analysis, campaign-execution, and evaluation workflows.

Scale simulations across developer workstations, on-premises infrastructure, and cloud compute while preserving reproducibility and model provenance.

Connect constructive simulations with distributed, operational, hardware-in-the-loop, or human-in-the-loop environments where appropriate.

Establish verification and validation practices, reference scenarios, regression suites, and quantitative measures of model credibility.

Work directly with government, Air Force, and broader DoD stakeholders to understand acquisition questions and deliver usable capabilities quickly.

Collaborate with physics, backend, geospatial, AI, and product teams to integrate the simulation kernel into a larger interactive platform.

Lead design and code reviews, mentor teammates, and improve architecture, documentation, testing, and release practices.

Mission with impact: Build the models used to evaluate systems, explore operational concepts, and inform major force-design and acquisition decisions.

Multidisciplinary engineering: Work across simulation, physics, software architecture, AI, geospatial systems, and defense operations.

Velocity: Prototype quickly, iterate with users, and deliver meaningful capability in weeks rather than years.

Ownership: Senior engineers own important systems from initial design through deployment and customer use.

Direct experience developing AFSIM plugins, framework extensions, event infrastructure, or custom platform types.

Experience supporting Air Force, Space Force, joint, or broader DoD acquisition and mission-analysis programs.

Experience developing models for sensors, weapons, electronic warfare, jamming, communications, logistics, or command and control.

Experience translating or modernizing a large legacy modeling or campaign-analysis system into C++.

Experience designing a simulation framework, event stack, plugin architecture, or campaign system from the ground up.

Familiarity with HLA, DIS, OneSAF, JSAF, NGTS, STK, or other constructive and distributed simulation environments.

Experience spanning both operational and constructive simulation.

Active TS/SCI clearance.