simspace-corporation - Director, Engineering - Environmental Realism
Requirements
• 8+ years of significant hands-on software engineering experience followed by progressive engineering leadership responsibility. • Experience leading Engineering Managers and multiple software engineering teams. • Experience building complex distributed systems, infrastructure platforms, networking technologies, platform services, simulation technologies, or similarly sophisticated software products. • Strong systems thinking with the ability to reason across software, infrastructure, networking, cloud services, APIs, automation, and distributed systems. • Demonstrated success scaling engineering organizations while improving delivery predictability, quality, and operational maturity. • Proven ability to influence technical direction and build alignment across organizational boundaries. • Experience partnering closely with Product Management and senior technical leaders to translate strategy into engineering execution. • Experience hiring, developing, and mentoring engineering leaders and building high-performing engineering cultures. • Experience in one or more of the following areas: • Cybersecurity platforms • AI or agentic systems • Cyber ranges or simulation technologies • Enterprise networking • Cloud infrastructure • Platform engineering • Digital twins • Autonomous systems • Government or defense technologies • Operational Technology (OT) or Industrial Control Systems (ICS) • We’re proud to offer a competitive and comprehensive package designed to support your well-being, growth, and success:
Responsibilities
• BUILD AND SCALE A HIGH-PERFORMING ENGINEERING ORGANIZATION • Lead and grow a rapidly expanding engineering organization through Engineering Managers, hiring exceptional talent while building a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement. • Develop Engineering Managers into organizational leaders who think beyond individual teams and optimize for company-wide outcomes. • Build an engineering culture that values customer impact, predictable delivery, software quality, and operational excellence. • BUILD A CUSTOMER-FIRST ENGINEERING CULTURE • Environmental Realism provides foundational capabilities used across SimSpace. • Foster a customer-first mindset where internal product and engineering teams are treated as customers. • Build reusable, well-designed capabilities that are easy to adopt, well documented, and enable other teams to deliver differentiated customer experiences faster. • Drive a culture that values platform usability, developer experience, automation, and long-term engineering leverage alongside technical sophistication. • LEAD CROSS-FUNCTIONAL EXECUTION • Environmental Realism spans multiple engineering organizations and product areas. • Partner closely with Product Management to translate long-term product vision into engineering strategy and execution. • Build strong partnerships across Engineering, Product, UX, Cyber Subject Matter Experts, Customer Success, Sales, and Marketing to align priorities and deliver coordinated outcomes. • Lead through influence, bringing together multiple teams around shared goals while balancing competing priorities, technical dependencies, and customer needs. • DRIVE THE TECHNICAL EVOLUTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL REALISM • Guide the engineering strategy behind capabilities including attack simulation, user activity, enterprise networking, operating systems, cloud services, SaaS applications, environmental automation, and AI-assisted environment generation. • Partner with Staff and Principal Engineers to define architecture, engineering standards, and technical direction while balancing long-term platform investments with pragmatic delivery. • Champion modern engineering practices including automated testing, observability, security, operational ownership, reliability, and developer productivity. • Ensure Environmental Realism continues to evolve toward increasingly realistic enterprise behavior for both human operators and autonomous AI agents. • Help define how realism is measured and continuously improved, ensuring simulated environments remain credible representations of real-world enterprise operations. • You enjoy building organizations as much as building technology. • You understand that realistic systems emerge from the interaction of users, networks, applications, infrastructure, cloud services, and adversary behavior—not from any single feature. • You naturally think in terms of systems, platforms, reusable capabilities, and long-term engineering leverage. • You believe engineering organizations succeed when the teams they support are successful. • You know how to balance architectural rigor with pragmatic execution. • You lead through influence, technical credibility, and strong communication, including across organizations that do not report directly to you. • You enjoy building engineering organizations during periods of rapid growth and investment.
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