Python Engineer (Modeling & Simulation)
Code Metal5 months ago
Remote, United States +2 moreSenior / Staff+
Responsibilities
- Design and implement Python backend services and APIs for mission- and campaign-level simulation orchestration.
- Build scenario-generation, operational planning, mission planning, Monte Carlo sensitivity-analysis, and campaign-evaluation workflows.
- Develop distributed, cloud-scale infrastructure spanning developer workstations, on-premises systems, and cloud compute while preserving reproducibility and model provenance.
- Build data ingestion, normalization, and analysis pipelines that turn simulation outputs 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.
Requirements
- Professional experience developing and delivering enterprise-scale software in Python 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.
- Preferred: familiarity with agentic AI frameworks, code analysis or static analysis, and cloud-based distributed systems using AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Preferred: active Secret, Top Secret, or SCI/SAP clearance and experience with AFSIM, HLA, DIS, OneSAF, JSAF, NGTS, STK, or comparable simulation environments.
- Preferred: experience supporting Air Force, Space Force, joint, or broader DoD acquisition and mission-analysis programs, or developing relevant defense-domain models.
Benefits
- Health care coverage with 100% premium coverage for medical, dental, and vision.
- 401(k) with 5% matching.
- Uncapped vacation, sick leave, and public holidays.
- Flexible hybrid or remote work arrangement.
- Relocation assistance for qualifying employees.
- Pay depends on experience, with compensation intended to be toward the upper end of the salary range; the posting does not provide an explicit salary amount.
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.