Software Engineer, Skyral
C++
Development platform for synthetic environments
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Development platform for synthetic environments
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
21-100 employees
Company mission
To empower every decision maker with technology.
Role
Who you are
- You are excited by the languages, technologies and techniques that we use every day: Modern C++, Operating system concepts (primarily Linux), Boost (Interprocess, Asio), Networking (socket-level TCP and UDP), Performance profiling, Bazel, Docker, Helm-managed Kubernetes environments
- You are keen to work in a highly parallel environment. Our new simulation execution capability is multi-threaded, multi-process and distributed
- You have a passion for producing high-performance software. Our new simulation execution capability is blazingly fast
- You are comfortable with manual memory management
- You are a curious technologist and appreciate opportunities to work outside your knowledge base and expertise
- You are an effective collaborator who enjoys sharing knowledge and sees feedback as a way to grow and prosper
What the job involves
- We are looking for someone with exposure to some or all of the following
- Willingness to learn is important so feel empowered to apply for this position even if you think you may only align with some of the qualities listed below
- Your unique skills and perspectives could be just what we’re looking for
- Building a next-generation high-performance simulation execution capability that will help customers gain a richer understanding of their most critical problems
- Understand the requirements of our applied scientists and model engineers to provide them with the tools and SDKs needed to effectively develop, debug and deploy complex models
- Working directly on end customer Solutions to aid adoption of our Simulation execution capability, helping them solve challenging scale and performance problems with models
- Collaborate with other members of our multi-disciplinary team to optimise the end-to-end process of ingesting data, running simulations and analysing results
- Work with benchmarking and profiling tools to identify and understand performance bottlenecks when executing simulations. Speed and resource-efficiency are key features of our simulation execution capability
- Research and experiment with new data structures, algorithms, techniques and technologies to further the scale of simulations that we can execute. Unprecedented scale is a key feature of our simulation execution capability
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Skyral, born from Improbable's defence division, launched in late 2023 and quickly delivered its first product for the UK Ministry of Defences. Now operating independently, its core platform, Skyral Shadow powers large-scale simulations across infrastructure and human behavior or mission planning and decision support.
The company is seeing support for its mission too, having received substantial funding in 2025 which will help it expand globally and grow its commercial footprint. With over 60% of work now outside defence, it's rapidly becoming a key player in digital twins across sectors like national security, healthcare, and infrastructure.
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Company benefits
- Enhanced parental leave: We’re proud to offer 26 weeks Maternity and 4 weeks Paternity leave at full pay
- Hybrid working: We understand that a one-size-fits all approach to work hours doesn’t suit everyone. Our hybrid working policy requires employees to spend a minimum of two days per week at our central London office. Outside this requirement, you’re empowered to work with your manager to determine a work schedule that suits your needs, whether in the office or through a hybrid model arrangement
- Unlimited paid holiday: We value and support the need to maintain a work-life balance, whether it’s taking time off during school holidays to be with your children, or simply having the flexibility to enjoy extended weekends without the stress of monitoring your remaining days off
- Dog friendly office
- Private medical & dental insurance
- Company pension
- Company swag
- Employee Assistance Programme
Company HQ
Finsbury, London, UK
Leadership
Jason Kennedy
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously spent 4 years at Improbable as a Director of Simulation Engineering and VP of Engineering. Prior to that, they spent 6 years at Raydon Corporation in several Directorial roles, and almost 8 years at ENSCO Avionics in various roles, including Staff Technical Manager.
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