Director, Engineering – Environmental Realism

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $210k - $290k / year

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SimSpace

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2015

🔒 Cybersecurity

☁️ SaaS

🏛️ Government

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $39M Venture Round - SimSpace on 2025-10

Cybersecurity • SaaS • Government

SimSpace is a cybersecurity company that provides a realistic, intelligent cyber range platform for training, testing, and validating security teams, tools, and AI agents. Its platform enables live-fire exercises, threat emulation (full kill-chain and atomic), validation of controls and agentic workflows, and disaster recovery and compliance testing; it is used by enterprises and government customers to build cyber readiness and resilience. Founded by experts from U. S. Cyber Command and MIT Lincoln Laboratory, SimSpace focuses on upskilling individuals, strengthening teams, and evaluating AI-driven defenses in realistic, production-like simulations.

📋 Description

• 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. • 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. • 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. • 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. • Ensure Environmental Realism continues to evolve toward increasingly realistic enterprise behavior for both human operators and autonomous AI agents.

🎯 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.

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, plus savings plans—coverage starts on day one! • Access to company-paid counseling, coaching, and resources for you and your family through Spring Health. • Plan for your future with a 401(k)-retirement savings plan featuring a company match. • Take the time you need with unlimited vacation and dedicated health & wellness days. SimSpace provides flexible solutions to meet the diverse work-life needs of team members. • Paid leave plans to support you and your loved ones during life’s most important moments. • Equity stock options at hire, with annual performance-based grants—become an invested stakeholder in our shared success. • Full- and partial- subsidized membership plans and equipment discounts to help you reach your personalized fitness goals. • Access a LinkedIn Learning membership to prioritize your personal and professional development. • Monthly reimbursements for meaningful connections with teammates through our SocialSpace Community. • Legal plan coverage, pet insurance, wellness reimbursements, and more to simplify life’s details.