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Simulation Engineer
PLASTIC RECYCLING LIMITED. Develop and maintain simulation software used daily by engineers and customers .
Core Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in developing and maintaining high-performance simulation software for UAVs, integrating flight control and autonomy systems, and validating vehicle dynamics models against real-world data. Proficient in automating simulation processes and ensuring reliability across various operational environments.
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High-Performance C++ ProgrammingReal-Time Simulation DevelopmentFlight Dynamics ModelingCI/CD AutomationUK Security Clearance Eligibility
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Hard Skills
C++ ProgrammingVehicle Dynamics ModelingSimulation Software DevelopmentAutomated TestingData Analysis with PythonModel-Based DesignNumerical Integration6-DOF ModelingDistributed SimulationVirtual Reality Development
Soft Skills
Willingness to LearnCollaborationProblem-Solving
Tools & Technologies
CI/CD PipelinesUnreal EngineMATLAB/SimulinkAI Coding Agents
Certifications & Qualifications
UK Security Clearance (SC)
Industry Keywords
UAV SimulationAutonomous SystemsFlight TestingHuman-in-the-Loop TrialsRegulated Domain Standards
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesPythonUnreal EngineC++
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Develop and maintain simulation software used daily by engineers and customers
- Build and extend real-time simulation of UAVs, sensors, and operating environments
- Develop vehicle dynamics models and validate them against measured flight data
- Integrate flight control and autonomy software with the simulation before deployment
- Integrate flight control, autonomy, communications, and ground control software to surface faults in simulation
- Scale simulation across many vehicles over lossy, contested, and degraded networks
- Make simulation reliable and accessible for developers, trainers, and end users
- Automate headless simulation runs, repeatable scenarios, and results reporting in CI/CD pipelines
- Build realistic virtual environments and scenarios from real-world data
- Bring multiple subsystems together and identify integration faults
- Replay logged flight data to reproduce airborne events and create regression tests
- Support training and mission-rehearsal use of the simulation
- Generate synthetic sensor data for computer vision and perception models
- Participate in flight testing to gather validation data and observe real system behaviour
Requirements
What you’ll need- Proven experience writing high-performance, modern C++ with hard real-time and determinism constraints
- Willingness to work and learn across application code, engine, networking, tooling and build systems
- Comfortable with version control and CI/CD, and automated testing
- Willingness to be involved in field testing and validation against real flight
- Eligible for UK security clearance (SC): UK citizen or 5+ years UK residency
- Preferred: A solid grounding in the mathematics of physical simulation: rigid-body dynamics, numerical integration, and coordinate frames and conventions
- Preferred: Flight dynamics or 6-DOF modelling, and experience validating a model against measured real-world data
- Preferred: Distributed or networked simulation: time synchronisation, state replication, and behaviour over unreliable links
- Preferred: Model-, software-, hardware- or vehicle-in-the-loop testing (MIL, SIL, HIL, VIL)
- Preferred: Experience with autonomous aerospace systems, autonomous vehicles, motorsports, robotics or simulation-heavy games development
- Preferred: Experience with a real-time simulation engine, on the systems and performance side rather than content
- Preferred: Virtual reality development, or human-in-the-loop trials that put real operators in front of a simulation
- Preferred: Model-based design and verification from another regulated domain: MATLAB/Simulink, SysML, ISO 26262 or DO-178C
- Preferred: Python for tooling, data analysis, and automation
- Preferred: Familiarity with Unreal Engine or similar engine
- Preferred: Experience using AI coding agents to speed up development and respond to changing requirements
- Preferred: Knowledge of building guardrails that keep AI agents within scope and enforce code quality
Benefits
Comp & perks- Share options vesting over three years
- Bupa private medical insurance
- 6% employer pension contribution
- 25 days leave plus bank holidays
- Enhanced mat/pat leave
- Enterprise level AI tooling
- Relocation support/home office budget