We believe in the power of scientific simulations coupled with cutting-edge gaming technology to transform decision making and planning in highly uncertain, rapidly evolving, complex environments. In the National Security and Defence sector, a unique opportunity exists to impact high stakes real-world outcomes by enabling decision makers to explore, interact and experiment with rich simulations of interconnected real world systems – what we refer to as single synthetic environments. Our goal is to enable the large scale adoption of single synthetic environments by governments and international institutions, to promote a collective path towards a shared, more accurate understanding of the world.

Improbable Defence develops a software platform that enables the creation of these single synthetic environments, aiming to capture for the first time the multi-domain complexity that is pervasive in modern military operations, and to provide a full simulation-supported workflow; from understanding a scenario, to planning an operation, rehearsing and training.

Single synthetic environments give decision makers a constantly improving picture on how to best prepare for crises and threats. Improbable’s platform offers new capabilities to the defence industry with a library of models, enabling defence developers to reuse and repurpose existing models and build new models of the real world in a fast, efficient and iterative way.

Mission

We are a growing team of engineers providing tooling, optimised workflows, critical data and deployment expertise to enable the development and deployment of the Improbable Defence Platform.

The team will have similar responsibilities to the EV (Engineering Velocity) team within the Games Technology unit of Improbable - a blog post about whom you can find at: https://improbable.io/blog/engineering-velocity-at-improbable

Our Impact

The Improbable Defence Platform enables the use of massive scale simulations to assist operational support and decision making and training in the defence and governmental arenas.

Utilising a mixture of cloud and bare-metal compute, our technology acts as a coordination point between existing infrastructure, simulations and decision makers. We aim to modernise the current outdated, slow and expensive approaches by blending tactical Human-in-the-loop simulation with predictive simulations using probabilistic models.

The EVE team is responsible for enabling our engineering teams to be effective at developing and deploying this pioneering simulation capability. You’ll frequently find yourself innovating on tooling and processes to improve productivity and inputting into platform development.

Areas for Impact

You will run an important part of our engineering group; the teams enabling our synthetic environment platform offering.
You will understand the business drivers, functionality requirements, architecture, and technologies behind the products and systems you own and provide context and visibility into the reasoning behind decisions whilst empowering your engineers to independently execute.
You will be responsible for decomposing complex problems into pragmatic straight-forward solutions with your team and planning the time and resources needed for successful project delivery.
You will consistently bring strong, data-driven business and technical judgment to decisions.
You will grow a team of successful engineers through collaborative development planning, coaching, and empowerment through strategic goals
You will collaborate with other EMs and Senior SWEs/Principals to determine the strategic direction and long-term viability of your software architecture, both from a business and technology standpoint.
You will help to shape the team’s software development practices as well as contributing to the software design process, reviewing code and making individual contributions where possible.

We'd like to hear from you if you identify with the following:

You an experienced engineering manager with a clear focus on managing the development and growth of software engineers. You ascribe to the idea of servant-leadership and are motivated by the success of your teams.
You have experience leading DevOps/ SRE engineering teams
You have led high-performing, happy teams building complex modern software with particular influence over product strategy and delivery.
You have spent a proportion of your career as an engineer, leveraging that knowledge to coach and develop your reports.
You consistently bring strong, data-driven business and technical judgment to decisions and clearly communicate trade offs and decisions to your team.
You are an empathetic communicator who can navigate tricky situations, having tough conversations where necessary, and being objective and structured in your approach to all personnel matters.
From your time as a hands on engineer, you will have gained experience within cloud deployment projects, with solid technical knowledge across cloud technologies, containerization , CI/CD pipelines , build systems , configuration management tooling etc.
You’re considerate, humble, and a strong believer in teamwork.

While we think the above experience could be important, we’re keen to hear from people that believe they have valuable experience to bring to the role.

About Us

Improbable is determined to foster an environment where people can do their best work and feel like they belong. We believe a healthy culture, strong values and contribution from a diverse range of individuals will help us to achieve success.

We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, gender, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any other legally protected status.