Engineering Manager, Skyral
Development platform for synthetic environments
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Development platform for synthetic environments
21-100 employees
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21-100 employees
Company mission
To empower every decision maker with technology.
Role
Who you are
- Proven engineering leadership in a growth‑stage, highly technical product company, ideally in modelling & simulation, high‑performance computing, or complex scientific software
- Technical depth across modern software engineering practices (e.g., cloud‑native architectures, CI/CD, automated testing) and an ability to dive into code or design reviews when needed
- Experience with the challenges associated with large scale, distributed systems
- Hands-on ability to work close to the code with team members to overcome deep technical challenges
- Solid architectural thinking and the ability to make and communicate technical trade-offs clearly
- Strategic product mindset with experience translating business objectives into actionable engineering roadmaps and measurable KPIs
- Data‑driven decision making using engineering and product metrics to guide continuous improvement and communicate progress to stakeholders
- Empathetic people management that fosters psychological safety, coaching, and career development for engineers of varied seniority
- Stakeholder fluency and great communication skills to collaborate with Product, BD, Project Management, and executive leadership
- Bias for action and improvement comfortable operating in ambiguity, rapidly assessing trade‑offs, and iterating on process, tooling, and culture to raise the bar
What the job involves
- At Skyral, Engineering Managers are servant‑leaders whose core mission is to create the conditions for their teams to sustainably build the right things, at the right time, in the right way
- Drawing on deep technical expertise, sharp product intuition, and empathetic people leadership, you remove roadblocks, champion pragmatic engineering practices, and steer the development of reliable, scalable modelling and simulation capabilities
- The Simulation Team builds the technological foundations that empowers customers to execute, configure, orchestrate and visualise simulations of unprecedented complexity and scale in high fidelity
- This directly aligns with our unique selling proposition of building a platform ecosystem that enables rapid innovation, reducing time-to-market (3 days, 3 weeks, 3 months), and providing a competitive edge through sophisticated modeling capabilities and ultra realistic 2D & 3D visualisations
- In this role you will translate ambitious product goals and customer requirements into clearly scoped, value‑driven engineering work that advances our products and projects, while nurturing a culture of psychological safety, continuous learning, and ownership so every engineer can thrive
- Ensure components owned by the team are built in line with CTPO‑defined Technical Strategies and advocate for their reuse in new and existing solutions
- Own component roadmaps, shaping backlog items based on feature requests and strategic factors
- Define and evolve component‑level technical architectures
- Be hands-on with code, infrastructure and product workflows, unblocking the team when required
- Help solve the complex technical challenges that allow us to deliver solutions that delight customers and Product components that ensure we can grow
- Allocate engineering talent across active solutions, product roadmap items, and new‑solution proposals, attending the weekly Talent Allocation meeting
- Attend relevant stage‑gates during the bid process and support accurate effort and cost estimation for new bids
- Ensure your team fully understands Skyral’s Business Objectives, Product Roadmap, overarching Technical Strategies, and the Skyral Way of working
- Define initiatives for the Technical Roadmap and prioritise them in collaboration with the wider engineering leadership
- Advocate the use of your product components on Customer Solutions
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
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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