Senior Software Engineer, Skyral
Python
Development platform for synthetic environments
Open for applications
Development platform for synthetic environments
21-100 employees
Open for applications
21-100 employees
Company mission
To empower every decision maker with technology.
Role
Who you are
- Proven Experience writing production quality code and adhering to software best practices,
- Strong proficiency in Python is required
- Proficiency with C++ is a strong advantage
- Familiarity with (or strong curiosity towards) mathematical modelling paradigms (e.g. systems dynamics, event-based modelling, agent-based modelling) and associated simulation tools
- Ability to profile, optimise, and scale computational models, whether through parallelisation, efficient data structures, or distributed computing frameworks
- Comfort with distributed computing environments, concurrency, or cluster orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes)
- Experience using Kafka (or similar) to develop real-time data streaming pipelines is desirable
- Hands-on expertise in data engineering principles to generate insights from large data sets, simulation outputs, or real-time streams is a plus
- Experience with using Kubernetes to automate the deployment of containerised applications
- Familiarity with Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring/logging tools is a plus
What the job involves
- The Model Engineering team is responsible for developing, implementing and productionising large-scale models and simulations used in our customer projects
- These models are predominantly agent-based and encode real-life systems and behaviours, allowing our customers to understand complex problems and explore different scenarios
- Depending on your experience and preferences, you may be working on:
- Developing new agent-based models for large, complex simulations of cities and social systems
- Productionising prototype models to ensure they run reliably and efficiently at scale, often faster-than-real-time or near real-time conditions
- Integrating data engineering best practices into our workflows, ensuring that vast amounts of incoming and simulated data are properly processed, analysed, and stored
- Productionising Simulation Models, working closely with Applied Scientist colleagues to take models from the prototype stage through to production ready software
- Developing and Implementing computational models
- Build or refine large-scale agent-based models incorporating real-world data and complex behaviours performance optimisation
- Measure, track, and continuously improve model performance, ensuring simulations can handle new levels of complexity and larger-scale scenarios
- Develop tooling that helps model developers optimise workflows and streamline simulation analysis
- Data Engineering - building pipelines to extract, synthesise and integrate data from a large number of sources
- Generating insights from massive data-sets and simulation outputs
- Generalising and extending existing models - Identifying and implementing generalisations and abstractions of existing models so that new models and new geographical areas of interest can be created easily
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Skyral, that began life as "Improbable Defence", is a platform that was developed within the Metaverse development company Improbable. Fully launched in Q4 of 2023, it is pursuing the development of complex synthetic environments for the defence industry.
Everything remains rather hush hush as the company begins its journey in the space. It is reportedly looking to grow the founding team and begin maturing its offering for its commitment to the UK’s Ministry of Defence, with a wealth of possibilities for how it might develop in the future.
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Company
Company benefits
- Flexible Working Hours and Hybrid Working
- Unlimited Paid Holiday
- Private Medical & Dental Insurance
- Enhanced Parental Leave - 26 weeks Maternity and 4 weeks Paternity leave at full pay
- £150 Monthly Spending Allowance
- Cash Bonuses
- Company Pension
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Company Swag
Company HQ
Spitalfields, London, UK
Leadership
Joe Robinson
(CEO)Previously worked in Operations, Intelligence and Exploitation at the UK Ministry of Defence. Was CEO of Improbable Defence.
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