Aaru
Engineering Manager, Simulation
New York, NY · Manager · Full-time · Posted Aug 22, 2026
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About the job
Leads a hands-on engineering team responsible for turning research methods into reliable, observable, and scalable production simulations of human behavior.
What you'll do
- Lead and develop a team of Simulation Engineers while setting technical direction and remaining involved in architecture, code, and incidents.
- Own simulation quality and production operations, including evaluation, reproducibility, observability, performance, reliability, incident response, and safe releases.
- Establish production handoffs and feedback loops across research, evaluation, product, platform, infrastructure, and deployment teams.
What they ask for
- Prior strength as a software, machine-learning, or systems engineer, with continued ability to work deeply in code and architecture.
- Experience leading a small engineering team that shipped and operated an AI, ML, data, or distributed system in production.
- Ability to debug failures across data, prompts, orchestration, statistical assumptions, services, and user-facing outputs.
- Willingness to work in person in New York City five days a week; located in the New York metropolitan area or open to relocation.
Nice to have
- Experience with LLM applications, agentic systems, multi-agent frameworks, model orchestration, or inference-time computation.
- Experience with model evaluation, experimentation platforms, synthetic data, forecasting, probabilistic models, or simulation and distributed-compute systems.
AI focus
Productionize and operate AI-agent simulations of human behavior, including evaluation, calibration, reproducibility, scaling, and debugging model behavior.
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