Principal Python Engineer (Modeling & Simulation)
Code Metal21 hours ago
Remote, United States +2 moreStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design and implement Python backend services and APIs that orchestrate mission- and campaign-level simulation runs and expose results to analysts and government stakeholders.
- Build scenario-generation, operational and mission-planning workflows and Monte Carlo sensitivity-analysis services.
- Develop distributed, cloud-scale infrastructure for simulations across developer workstations, on-premises infrastructure, and cloud compute while preserving reproducibility and model provenance.
- Build data ingestion, normalization, and analysis pipelines that turn simulation output into decision-ready insights.
- Develop REST, GraphQL, and gRPC APIs and Docker-based containerized services connecting Python tooling with simulation runtimes and analysis tools.
- Gather requirements from government stakeholders, domain experts, and analysts and translate them into software designs.
- Apply code review, testing, continuous integration, release management, and build-system practices.
- Provide department-wide architectural guidance, drive technical reviews and proposals, contribute to the technical roadmap, and mentor mid-level and senior staff.
Requirements
- Professional experience delivering enterprise-level Python software products to a large customer base.
- Experience gathering stakeholder requirements and translating them into software designs.
- Experience delivering robust software using code review, testing, continuous integration, release management, and build systems.
- Familiarity with machine learning tools and frameworks.
- Expertise building scalable REST, GraphQL, and gRPC APIs.
- Hands-on experience with Docker and containerized application development.
- Eligibility to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance.
- Principal-level expectations include 10+ years of experience, department-wide technical and architectural influence, large-initiative scoping, and broad mentorship responsibility.
- Preferred qualifications include agentic AI frameworks, code or static analysis, AWS, GCP, Azure, an active U.S. security clearance, AFSIM development, distributed simulation environments, DoD mission-analysis programs, and defense-domain modeling.
Benefits
- Health care plan with 100% premium coverage, including medical, dental, and vision.
- 401(k) with 5% matching.
- Paid time off with uncapped vacation, sick leave, and public holidays.
- Flexible hybrid or remote work arrangement.
- Relocation assistance for qualifying employees.
About Code Metal
Code Metal builds an AI-assisted code transpilation and verification platform that translates algorithms into optimized implementations for heterogeneous hardware (GPUs, FPGAs, ASICs, and edge SoCs). It serves defense, automotive, aerospace, and semiconductor teams deploying DSP, RF, communications, and embedded signal-processing workloads to constrained devices. Privately held and founded in 2023, the company is headquartered in Boston, MA.