Staff Simulation Engineer (Modeling & Simulation)

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.

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

Experience with behavior trees, finite state machines, and planning languages (e.g., PDDL) in the context of mission planning and behavior modeling

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.

Years of Experience: 7+

Engineering Craft & Code Quality: Defines and enforces the team's testing strategy, standards, and quality bar; ensures AI-generated output is tightly integrated into existing paradigms and robustly tested.

Architecture & Technical Knowledge: Designs cross-cutting changes across the stack; provides architectural guidance across the team; owns design docs for major multi-service or multi-surface projects.

Delivery, Scoping & De-risking: Owns technical scoping and execution strategy for complex, multi-sprint initiatives; audits requirements for technical risk and hidden dependencies before development begins.

Technical Leadership & Mentorship: The primary technical gatekeeper for the team's codebase; reviews most high-impact work; leads technical grooming, design spikes, and RFCs; coordinates across pods when changes cross domain boundaries.