Simulation Developer

Company Overview

Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas. These include airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refuelling, special air missions, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation. We own the whole stack: designing, building, and operating turnkey capabilities that give our partners decisive, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.

Our operating model is built around three interlocking pillars. The Support Groups provide a global shared-service – spanning people, finance, platform, operations, legal, and engagement. This frees up our Core Groups, who develop and own mission capabilities end-to-end, to focus entirely on delivery. The Market Groups apply a regional lens, ensuring that our agile and adaptable capabilities remain aligned to the wicked problems that matter most to our partners across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific.

At the heart of our model is a simple but powerful idea: be a true partner with skin in the game. Our partners need effects, not just equipment. By owning the full stack – from the lab to the field – we are able to drive a continuous cycle of innovation that keeps our partners ahead. It's a fast-moving, intellectually demanding environment where talented people are given real responsibility, work on problems that matter, and contribute to an enterprise that is growing quickly and deliberately.

Headquartered in Washington, DC, with facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, as well as Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Group Overview

Digital and Synthetic (D\&S) Group is committed to providing mission-driven information solutions that seamlessly bridge the digital and physical realms. Leveraging cutting-edge technologies and advanced platforms, we empower operational readiness and elevate situational awareness across diverse domains—including air, maritime, and space.

Position Summary

Metrea is looking for experienced C\+\+ programmers to join our team creating our core large scale simulation platform as well as simulation systems for different military aircraft. As a simulation C\+\+ programmer, you will work closely with our experts in aerospace and military simulations to create an immersive simulated world with complex and realistic agent behavior and a rich pattern of life. You will support specialized team members with a variety of programming tasks. If you are looking forward to solving hard technical problems and can delve deep into understanding the underlying codebase while keeping performance in mind, we will be a good match for you.

What You'll Do

As a simulation C\+\+ programmer, you will develop various systems within our simulation software. We have a broad range of tasks to take on, and we will try our best to match your skillset with the items in our backlog. Typically, as a part of a team, you will be responsible for delivering new, or expanding existing systems related to vehicle simulations, that also includes reviewing code from colleagues. The list of skills and experience we look for is quite broad, we don’t expect you to know everything, but we anticipate that you should tick at least a few of those boxes below.

What You Bring

• Experience with Unreal Engine C\+\+ programming
• Experience with Perforce
• UI/UX design and/or UI programming experience
• Experience from the video game industry
• Passion for anything aerospace-related
• Experience with simulation training tools development
• Experience with large-scale games or simulations
• Experience with wargames
• Experience working with international teams
• Background in related fields (e.g., Military, Aerospace, Software, Engineering, Physics, Math)

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

• Engineering degree
• 5\+ years of professional C\+\+ programming

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical plan options HSA/FSA accounts
• Dental and vision coverage
• 6% employer 401(k) match
• Fully paid parental leave for all new parents
• Generous PTO
• Life and disability insurance
• Long-term and Short-term disability coverage
• AD\&D Coverage
• Pet Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Subsided gym membership / plans through Wellhub

Work Authorization / Security Clearance

• Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States and must be a U.S. citizen. Role may require adherence to export control regulations (ITAR/EAR).

AAP/EEO Statement

MSIM (US) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or other characteristics protected by law

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time position with typical working hours of Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Hours and work shifts may change in accordance with department and business needs.

Work Location

Washington DC

Work Environment

This job operates in an office setting

Travel

No travel needed

Our Firmware

At Metrea, our single core value is Rooted in Humility, and our four cornerstone attributes are Entrepreneurial, Systematic, Discerning, and Over-Deliver. These form what we call our Teammate Firmware. Just like technical firmware connects software and hardware, our Firmware is the constant interface between our mission and our people. It defines how we show up, how we work together, and how we solve complex problems.

Our team Firmware creates a web-like, hyper-collaborative, dynamically hierarchical way of working that helps us adapt quickly, communicate openly, and distribute decision-making to where expertise actually lives. It enables groups to self-organize around hard problems, shift fluidly as priorities evolve, and operate with the trust, curiosity, and discipline required in a complex mission space. This foundation allows us to deliver elegant, effective solutions and uphold our purpose: protecting our precious inheritance.