Engineering Manager, Simulation
About The Position
Firestorm builds modular autonomous aircraft designed to adapt across missions, payloads, and deployment environments. Developing and testing those aircraft requires simulation that can evolve just as quickly. We are hiring an Engineering Manager to lead the Simulation team and build the software, infrastructure, and tools used to develop, test, train, and demonstrate Firestorm aircraft. You will take ownership of an existing simulation capability and grow it into a reusable UAS simulation platform. The team will support interactive developer workflows, automated SIL/HIL testing, scenario orchestration, training, and mission demonstrations across Firestorm aircraft and their variants.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software, simulation, robotics, or related engineering experience
- 3+ years leading software engineering teams
- U.S. person required due to ITAR regulations
- Hands-on experience building or integrating simulation systems for aircraft, UAS, robotics, or other complex physical systems
- Experience with Gazebo, JSBSim, AirSim, FlightGear, or similar simulation frameworks
- Strong C++ and Python or similar software engineering experience
- Experience with SIL, HIL, or other integrated simulation environments
- Experience integrating flight software, vehicle models, sensors, actuators, or hardware interfaces into simulation
- Strong build, packaging, deployment, and distribution of applications across multiple OS.
- Experience building automated, reproducible simulation or test environments
- Demonstrated ability to debug complex problems across simulation, software, networking, and hardware boundaries
Nice To Haves
- Experience with PX4, ArduPilot, MAVLink, or similar vehicle software platforms
- Strong understanding of aircraft dynamics, flight controls, sensors, and propulsion
- Aerospace, defense, UAS, or autonomous-systems experience
Responsibilities
- Lead the Simulation team — Own the team responsible for aircraft simulation infrastructure, tools, models, and integrations.
- Build the simulation platform — Develop a reusable simulation capability across aircraft, payloads, sensors, propulsion systems, and compute configurations.
- Enable software development and test — Provide interactive and headless environments used by aircraft software teams and automated SIL/HIL test systems.
- Build scenario orchestration — Develop tools for defining, configuring, executing, and replaying aircraft and mission scenarios.
- Scale simulation execution — Build infrastructure for repeatable local, CI, and distributed simulation runs.
- Integrate the aircraft stack — Connect flight software, autonomy, vehicle models, sensors, actuators, communications, and other aircraft systems into simulation.
- Support training and demonstrations — Build simulation capabilities that can be used for operator training, mission development, and customer demonstrations.
- Grow the team — Hire and develop engineers with strong simulation, software, and UAS fundamentals.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and visions plans
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
- Equity grants for new hires
- Unlimited PTO
- Extremely generous company holiday calendar, including a holiday hiatus in July & December.
- Generous Parental Leave
- Lifestyle Spending Account
- FSA
- DCFSA
- HSA
- Hospital Indemnity insurance
- Critical Illness insurance
- Accident insurance
- Basic Life/AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance, 100% covered by Firestorm.
- Option to purchase additional life insurance for you and your family.
- Mental Health Resources: free mental health resources 24/7 including therapy and more.
- Additional work-life services, such as free legal and financial support, are available.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
