Modelling and Simulation Engineer

Principle Engineer - Technical Delivery Lead

Skyral

We Are Skyral: We believe every decision maker can be empowered by technology. Skyral combines AI, leading edge simulation technology and world class expertise to transform the decision making experience. Our products and services enable faster and more confident decisions in a complex, unforgiving world. We deploy practical, intuitive and efficient solutions to governments and enterprises, delivering outstanding outcomes at the speed of relevance.   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   What We Do: (Omnia Training) At Omnia Training, we’ve brought together some of the UK’s most innovative defence training organisations under one powerful mission: to transform the British Army’s training system and create the best-trained Army in the world. Omnia Training is redefining the British Army’s collective training. To do that, we are looking for the best and brightest minds from across the UK. Omnia Training is at the heart of the UK’s bold Land Industrial Strategy. This is more than a job — it’s a mission. You will be part of a high-impact, collaborative environment, where every person in our team plays a critical role in delivering Omnia Training’s vision; designing, delivering, and transforming collective training. Please note that this role will require onsite working in Warminster. Due to the nature of this role, Skyral can only consider applications from candidates who live in the UK and are eligible for SC clearance.   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   What We Are Looking For:  * Proven ability to lead a software development team * Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams. * Ability to engage with MOD customer and commercial content providers * Ability to translate architecture into working systems. * Ability to unblock teams across modelling, integration, and platform issues. * A solid understanding of modelling and simulation principles. * A strong grounding in distributed systems design.   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Key Technical Proficiencies: * C++ and Go (Golang). * Cloud Native Computing & SDLC (Kubernetes, Git, CI/CD, ORAS, ArgoCD etc.)  * Strong debugging and problem-solving skills across system boundaries. * Ability to reason about performance, latency, and system behaviour. * Familiarity with containerisation, Kubernetes-style environments, and distributed deployments.    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   What You’ll Be Responsible For:  * Leading a team of developers and the Skyral primary point of contact at Warminster. * You will hold technical accountability across multiple concurrent projects, whilst ensuring the team delivers a fully working training system, not just components. * Support the development solution architectures and turn these into implementation. * Make technical decisions across modelling, integration, and platform usage. * Step into problems across modelling challenges, integration issues, deployment blockers and guide engineering work across all disciplines. * Ensure solutions are designed to be composable, reusable, and comply with platform-first principles. * Act as the final escalation point for technical issues on site. * Maintain momentum across multiple parallel workstreams.   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Note: Please feel empowered to apply for this position, even if you think you may only align with some of the qualities listed above. Your unique skills and perspectives could be just what we’re looking for.   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   What We Can Offer You: (Same For All Roles) * Honest Conversations About Compensation - We are actively recruiting for various positions and considering candidates with diverse levels of experience. Skyral maintains a well defined salary range which a member of our Talent team will discuss with you during the first initial call.  * Unlimited Paid Holiday - At Skyral, we recognise the dedication and individual circumstances of our team members. 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.  * Private Medical & Dental Insurance - Your health and wellbeing is our priority. Skyral is partnered with Bupa and from day one you are covered with a Level 3 policy. Additionally, if you wish to include family members or dependents on this policy, we offer a substantial discount.  * Enhanced Parental Leave - 26 weeks Maternity and 4 weeks Paternity leave. * Everything Else - Company Pension, Company Swag, Employee Assistance Programme.    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   At Skyral, we are committed to fostering a culture of diversity, equality and inclusion. We also ensure that individuals with disabilities have access to reasonable adjustments. If you require such accommodations during the job application process we ask that you inform a member of our talent team.

Quality Assurance Engineer - Modelling & Simulation

Skyral

We Are Skyral: We believe every decision maker can be empowered by technology. Skyral combines AI, leading edge simulation technology and world class expertise to transform the decision making experience. Our products and services enable faster and more confident decisions in a complex, unforgiving world. We deploy practical, intuitive and efficient solutions to governments and enterprises, delivering outstanding outcomes at the speed of relevance.   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   What We Do: (Omnia Training) At Omnia Training, we’ve brought together some of the UK’s most innovative defence training organisations under one powerful mission: to transform the British Army’s training system and create the best-trained Army in the world. Omnia Training is redefining the British Army’s collective training. To do that, we are looking for the best and brightest minds from across the UK. Omnia Training is at the heart of the UK’s bold Land Industrial Strategy. This is more than a job — it’s a mission. You will be part of a high-impact, collaborative environment, where every person in our team plays a critical role in delivering Omnia Training’s vision; designing, delivering, and transforming collective training. Please note that this role will require onsite working in Warminster. Due to the nature of this role, Skyral can only consider applications from candidates who live in the UK and are eligible for SC clearance.   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   What We Are Looking For:  This is not a traditional QA role. You will own verification, validation, and assurance across models and integrated simulation systems, acting as the authority on whether systems are fit for use. * Highly analytical and structured. * Independent and evidence-driven. * Willing to challenge assumptions and push back when required. * Strong attention to detail without losing sight of overall system behaviour. * Clear communicator, able to present findings credibly to technical and non-technical stakeholders. * Comfortable operating in assurance-heavy and regulated environments. * Comfortable making and defending decisions about system credibility and fitness-for-purpose   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Key Technical Proficiencies: * Strong understanding of VV&A principles and frameworks as well as model and system validation approaches. * Experience in validating simulation models, assessing fitness-for-purpose and producing structured validation evidence. * Expert in test planning and execution, as well as functional, integrated and regression testing. * Ability to validate behavioural correctness, effects and interactions and timing and responsiveness. * Experience integrating documentation into governed systems. * Familiarity with Defence and M&S standards such as JSP 939, NATO VV&A guidance, and relevant FOMs (e.g. RPR-FOM, NETN-FOM) is desirable. * Experience producing structured documentation and evidence aligned to regulated or authority-driven environments. * Experience integrating validation outputs into governed systems, including linking validation status and evidence to versioned artefacts. * Experience with tooling to support testing and validation (e.g. automated test frameworks, data analysis tools, scripting in Python) is desirable.   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   What You’ll Be Responsible For:  * Own verification, validation and assurance (VV&A) across models, simulation components, and integrated training systems, and supporting data. * Define and maintain test and validation strategy aligned to training needs, customer requirements, system capabilities, and exercise design intent.. * Design and execute functional and integration tests and scenario based validation exercises. * Validate models against authoritative data sources, SME expectations and expected behaviours. * Assess model fidelity and realism, behavioural correctness, and system performance under realistic conditions. * Validate end-to-end system behaviour, including cross-system interactions, data flows, timing, and consistency. * Support authority-led validation, acceptance, and accreditation activities. * Produce test plans, validation reports and evidence packs for customer review. * Ensure validation outcomes are recorded, traceable, and linked to content and system versions. * Provide clear, defensible evidence to support decisions on whether systems are fit for training use.   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Note: Please feel empowered to apply for this position, even if you think you may only align with some of the qualities listed above. Your unique skills and perspectives could be just what we’re looking for.   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   What We Can Offer You: (Same For All Roles) * Honest Conversations About Compensation - We are actively recruiting for various positions and considering candidates with diverse levels of experience. Skyral maintains a well defined salary range which a member of our Talent team will discuss with you during the first initial call.  * Unlimited Paid Holiday - At Skyral, we recognise the dedication and individual circumstances of our team members. 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.  * Private Medical & Dental Insurance - Your health and wellbeing is our priority. Skyral is partnered with Bupa and from day one you are covered with a Level 3 policy. Additionally, if you wish to include family members or dependents on this policy, we offer a substantial discount.  * Enhanced Parental Leave - 26 weeks Maternity and 4 weeks Paternity leave. * Everything Else - Company Pension, Company Swag, Employee Assistance Programme.    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   At Skyral, we are committed to fostering a culture of diversity, equality and inclusion. We also ensure that individuals with disabilities have access to reasonable adjustments. If you require such accommodations during the job application process we ask that you inform a member of our talent team.

Senior Modelling & Simulation Engineer - Flight Control Systems

Vertical Aerospace

Our Mission At Vertical Aerospace, we are pioneering the way for electric aviation. The Valo, our eVTOL (electric, vertical, take-off and landing), 'zero emissions' aircraft will set a new safety standard for how we will navigate the sky. We won't realise our mission following the same legacy processes and traditions our predecessors followed, instead, we want to 'redefine' aerospace best practices. We are growing quickly from a prototype business to a scaling SME, and the next few years will be critical to our success and delivering on our ambitious goals. Valo is targeting airliner-level safety certification in 2029 ahead of entering service with our airline and operator customers. What to Expect As the Senior Modelling & Simulation Engineer for Flight Control Systems, you'll provide the technical leadership for the development and integration of our Flight Control System model into our aircraft model. You'll define how flight control models are developed, integrated, validated, and deployed across our aircraft simulation environments, ensuring they support engineering development, verification, and certification. Working within the Modelling and Simulation team, you'll collaborate closely with Flight Controls engineers, software teams, systems engineers, and external suppliers to deliver robust, high-fidelity models that accurately represent the aircraft's flight control system. You'll lead the evolution of our modelling approach, drive best practice, and ensure our simulation capability remains credible, traceable, and fit for purpose across desktop simulation, pilot-in-the-loop, and hardware-in-the-loop environments.   What You'll Do * Lead the development of Vertical's Flight Control System modelling capability, defining the technical approach, architecture, and modelling strategy. * Own the development, integration, and validation of Flight Control System models, including control laws, sensors, actuators, and system interfaces. * Provide technical leadership for the integration of FCS models into the wider aircraft simulation environment, ensuring appropriate fidelity and alignment with the physical system. * Work closely with Flight Controls engineers and external suppliers to define modelling requirements, resolve technical challenges, and deliver integrated simulation solutions. * Lead the development of simulation models across multiple fidelity levels and deploy them into desktop, real-time, and hardware-in-the-loop environments. * Drive the analysis and modelling of system latency, interface behaviour, and failure scenarios to improve simulation accuracy and robustness. * Support aircraft handling qualities assessments, flight test preparation, and engineering investigations through simulation. * Lead simulation activities supporting aircraft certification, including model verification, validation, and generation of simulation evidence. * Champion modelling standards, governance, traceability, and model credibility across the Flight Control System simulation capability.   What You'll Bring * A bachelor's degree or higher in Aerospace Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, or a related discipline. * Significant professional experience (10+yrs) leading the development of aircraft modelling and simulation solutions, with expert knowledge of MATLAB and Simulink for model development, analysis, and verification. * Deep understanding of aircraft systems modelling, particularly Flight Control Systems, and their application within desktop, real-time, and hardware-in-the-loop simulation environments. * Experience defining modelling approaches across multiple levels of fidelity and deploying models to real-time systems using code generation techniques. * Strong understanding of model-based systems engineering and best practice for developing credible, traceable simulation models. * The ability to provide technical leadership across multidisciplinary engineering teams and influence modelling strategy and implementation. * Experience with Python, C/C++, or other simulation software and programming languages. * Knowledge of model-based development standards and credibility frameworks, such as NASA-STD-7009B. * Experience using simulation to support aircraft verification, validation, and certification activities. What can you expect from us? We're on a mission. Where others see limits, we see opportunity, and we work at pace. Working at Vertical isn't your average role but for those seeking a challenge, a flexible, supportive organisation and an incredible team; working here is an opportunity to do the best work of your career. Our approach promotes ingenuity and courage, while our environment builds success through diligence in safety and being open in the way we work. The only way we're going to assure the next chapter of aviation history is by working as a team, relentlessly, towards our goal.  Our benefits Our people matter - we're not going anywhere without them. Which is why our company benefits go beyond the essentials. * 26 days holiday, plus bank holiday * 5 extra days per year to buy (or sell) * 5 extra days holiday when you get married or enter a civil partnership * Additional 4% of your salary to spend on extra benefits * Award-winning digital health and wellbeing service (Help@Hand) * Company performance based bonus - rewarding company and individual performance * Company Share Scheme - open to every Vertical employee * Company Pension Scheme - 5% and we match it * Breakfast on us, every day We may just be the hardest job you've ever had, but we're confident it will be the most rewarding. Join the team today and help us shape the future of Advanced Air Mobility. Disclaimer Statement We encourage you to apply even if you may not have all the experience listed in the advert. 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