Simulation Software Engineer (Unreal Engine)

About This Role

This engineering role focuses on building and leading the development of a new NiDAR simulator using Unreal Engine 5.x for 3D rendering and physics. It involves creating realistic environments and simulating sensors for integration with a C2 platform, suiting an experienced software engineer with a strong background in Unreal Engine.

Responsibilities

• Build realistic, geo-referenced 3D environments and physics-driven drones, vehicles, and vessels, including effectors such as cannons, missile launchers, and lasers
• Simulate camera sensors (EO and thermal, pan/tilt/zoom) and stream their video out of the engine into the C2 platform
• Integrate the simulator with the company's software, together with the backend team
• Keep up with the latest engine releases and prepare the transition to UE6
• Provide support and mentorship, commit to timelines, estimate accurately, and assess risks

Requirements

• Current, hands-on professional experience with Unreal Engine 5 and its recent releases (starting on UE 5.8)
• Strong C++ in Unreal, and fluent Blueprints
• Real-time physics (Chaos) and vehicle or flight dynamics
• Rendering and cameras: materials, post-process, Scene Capture, and render targets
• Capturing and streaming rendered video out of Unreal (e.g., Pixel Streaming, GStreamer, RTSP)
• Profiling and performance optimization
• GIT, comfortable on Windows and Linux (and MacOS, ideally)
• Closely follow Unreal's evolution, including the UE6 roadmap (Verse, Scene Graph)

Nice to have:

• Python and/or Golang
• Military or defense simulation, tactical games, flight or vehicle simulators
• External physics engines
• 3D content creation or modification
• Geospatial and large worlds (Cesium for Unreal, Large World Coordinates)
• Thermal/IR sensor simulation
• Synthetic data generation for Machine Learning
• AI-assisted Unreal workflows (Unreal MCP)
• Docker, CI/CD
• DIS/HLA, Omniverse

Education

• Bachelor's degree level in a science or engineering discipline
• Master's or PhD advantageous

Important Details

• Development on Macs and Ubuntu, with occasional work on Windows, and potentially more on Windows for Unreal
• Team: small, multicultural, with a mix of experienced engineers, sales and project managers, and young graduates

About the Company

The company's core activity is safety and security applications, bringing the latest web technologies to real-world hardware rather than working in the cloud. They interface with diverse equipment such as radar, sonar, thermal imaging, drones, and software-defined radios, with UIs running on touchscreen displays, tablets, phones, and smart-glasses. Their systems operate in mission-critical environments, including at sea and in high-security areas with limited connectivity to data centers.