Director of Enterprise Simulation & Synthesis

Responsibilities

• Build, lead, and grow the Simulation & Synthesis organization, including hiring, mentoring, onboarding, and performance development of technical staff.
• Establish enterprise simulation standards, governance, and best practices, including model credibility, verification and validation (V&V), uncertainty management, traceability, and configuration management.
• Develop and maintain scalable analysis workflows, infrastructure, automation, and data governance practices that support reproducible and high-quality engineering analysis.
• Lead integrated system-level synthesis activities, including trade studies, coupled-effects analysis, budgets, margins, and decision-support artifacts used by Program leadership.
• Partner with Program Directors, Systems Engineering, and peer Department Heads to ensure simulation activities are appropriately scoped, prioritized, and aligned to program milestones and decision points.
• Drive integration between simulation and testing activities, including test planning, correlation strategies, post-test model updates, and operational profile development.
• Define and implement engineering processes and “definition of done” standards for simulation activities across concept development, design, testing, and operations.
• Build external partnerships with national laboratories, universities, and industry collaborators to accelerate technical capability development and attract top talent.
• Represent Xcimer within technical conferences and modeling communities to establish credibility and strengthen recruiting efforts.

Qualifications

• Education: Advanced degree in Engineering, Physics, Applied Mathematics, or related technical field; MS or PhD preferred.
• Experience: 12+ years of experience in modeling, simulation, and technical leadership within complex engineered systems.
• Demonstrated experience building and leading high-performing technical teams and establishing scalable engineering methods, tools, and processes.
• Strong expertise in model credibility, assumptions management, uncertainty quantification, and engineering decision risk assessment.
• Experience operating effectively within a matrix organization and collaborating across multidisciplinary engineering and program teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical analyses into clear recommendations for both technical and executive audiences.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Desired

• Experience owning enterprise-level simulation tools, workflows, and standards across multiple technical domains.
• Experience with structural analysis, loads and dynamics, vibroacoustics, multi-physics modeling, and model-to-test correlation.
• Experience establishing data pedigree and governance practices for simulation inputs such as loads, material properties, environmental conditions, and test datasets.
• Experience supporting external customer, regulatory, or government technical review processes.
• Recognized technical leadership through publications, invited talks, or contributions to simulation, computational engineering, or applied physics communities.