Director – Modeling & Simulation Software
$168,200–$252,400 year
On-siteEl Segundo, California, United States or Chantilly, Virginia, United States
Job Summary
Develop and execute organizational strategies aligned with corporate and customer objectives to proactively acquire funding for space modeling and simulation capabilities. Assemble high-functioning project teams to build nationally-recognized software solutions spanning satellite, launch, and cyber systems while managing budgets and procuring required hardware and software. Collaborate with subject matter experts and customers to define future needs, deliver quality control on organizational products, and provide briefings to senior leadership. Obtain, manage, and tailor work assignments to staff skillsets, evaluate performance, and foster an innovative culture through recruiting, hiring, and mentoring. Serve as a technical project lead as needed to deliver resilient, high-performance systems to Intelligence Community and DoD customers.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in STEM majors such as Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, or related technical disciplines
- 10 or more years of progressively responsible professional engineering/scientific experience
- Strong technical reputation and track record of technical achievement
- Experience with modern software development languages including C++ or Python
- Technical breadth and demonstrated learning agility
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrated track record of developing people through mentoring and training
- Experience in managing people and projects in at least one of the following domains: software development; DevOps; modeling & simulation
- Ability to obtain and maintain Top Secret/SCI clearance, which is issued by the U.S. Government
- U.S. citizenship
- Ability to travel occasionally to domestic work locations or customer sites (< 20%)
Desired Qualifications
- Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, or related subject area
- Direct mission system experience in one of more of the following: GEOINT, missile warning/missile tracking/missile defeat, satellite communications, command and control, PNT, launch systems, civil space systems (NASA, NOAA)
- Modeling & simulation and/or analysis of multi-domain end-to-end effects chains
- Experience architecting, developing, or using distributed simulation frameworks
- Strong experience and understanding of additional modern software development languages (e.g., Java, Go, Rust), processes & workflows, computing platforms (on/off-prem, cloud/hybrid/multi-cloud, etc.), containerization principles and technologies, data operations
- Experience with data science technology & applications (AI, ML, GAI)
- Demonstrates enterprise-level perspective with prior Program Office(s) and ETG experience
- Active Top Secret or SCI clearance or current (<4 years old) Sole Source Background Investigation (SSBI)
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