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Senior Software Engineer, Simulation Infrastructure

Washington, DC (DC-01)💼 Full-time💰 $191,000–$191,000🗓 2026-09-23 → 2026-09-25

Core

Developing foundational simulation capabilities, infrastructure, and analysis tools for autonomous robotics systems (e.g., unmanned fighter jets) to analyze flight data before real-world deployment.

Role type

Senior Software Engineer, Simulation Infrastructure

Builds

Cloud-based ETL pipelines, automated/generative simulation environments, and Python orchestration tooling for robotics testing.

Domain

Defense technology / Autonomous robotics / Aerospace

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Autonomous systems, simulation tools development, cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), Python tooling, ETL pipeline design

Preferred skills

Embedded Linux systems development, remote software troubleshooting, monitoring and logging tools (auditd, journald, selinux, Splunk)

Technologies

Spark, Flyte, Airflow, Python, AWS, Azure, GCP

Responsibilities

Scale simulation infrastructure for training ML models, build cloud-based ETL pipelines, develop automated simulation environments, create Python tooling for orchestration

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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