Software Engineer

As a Junior Software Engineer in the Modelling & Simulation (M&S) domain, you will play a key role in developing innovative software and automation solutions that support decision-making for the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD). You’ll help build simulation models, data-driven tools, and automation pipelines that underpin experimentation, capability assessment, and future force development. This is an excellent opportunity for an early-career engineer with a strong technical foundation and an interest in applying software and data skills to real-world defence challenges.

Responsibilities

• Support the development and testing of software for Project Crucible and related M&S initiatives.
• Implement and maintain automation scripts and workflows to improve efficiency in model execution and data processing.
• Contribute to the design and development of simulation models and analytical tools.
• Assist in building and maintaining data pipelines that extract and transform simulation outputs.
• Support integration of models and tools into federated simulation environments.
• Collaborate with software, data, and domain specialists to deliver high-quality technical outputs.

• Programming experience in C++
• Understanding of software engineering principles (version control, testing, CI/CD)
• An interest in automation, scripting, and process optimisation
• Basic experience with data handling, data pipelines, or data manipulation
• Awareness of networking protocols and distributed systems
• Desire to learn Lua scripting (used within VR-Forces simulation)

• Programming experience in Python
• Defence Modelling & Simulation (M&S)
• Air and/or Maritime domain knowledge
• Development of simulation systems and integration/federation
• Rapid concepting and prototyping of M&S capabilities
• Exposure to simulation integration, automation frameworks, or data-driven experimentation
• UK Citizenship (no dual citizenship)
• Ability to achieve Security Clearance (SC)