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Aerospace Modeling & Simulation Software Engineer (TS/SCI)

Herndon, VA💼 Full-time💰 $116,000–$116,000🗓 2026-08-14 → 2026-09-26

Core

Develop software capabilities for advanced Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) studies, building simulation tools and data processing workflows to evaluate future space, airborne, and sensor systems.

Role type

Senior IC aerospace modeling & simulation software engineer

Builds

High-fidelity physics-based simulators, data processing workflows, analysis applications, and visualization capabilities for space, airborne, and ISR sensor systems.

Domain

Aerospace, Defense, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR)

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Software development, modular architecture design, data pipeline creation, debugging, verification and validation, version control, testing, documentation, code reviews, configuration management

Preferred skills

Modeling and simulation software development, modular software architecture design, API/plugin development, complex systems integration, data processing, visualization, algorithm development, numerical methods, statistical analysis

Technologies

Python, C++, Java, C#, MATLAB, JavaScript, NumPy, pandas, SciPy, Matplotlib, Plotly

Responsibilities

Design, develop, test, and maintain software tools for aerospace modeling, simulation, mission analysis, and data visualization; Add new features to high-fidelity physics-based simulators; Design and implement modular software architectures; Develop scripts, applications, APIs, and data pipelines for scenario generation and post-processing; Collaborate with engineers and analysts to translate mission needs into software requirements; Build efficient data processing and visualization workflows; Perform debugging, verification, validation, and QA/QC of software tools and analytical results.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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