Applied Intuition
Product Manager - Digital Proving Grounds
Sunnyvale · On-site · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of product management experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field (Computer Science, Engineering, or related) or equivalent experience.
About the job
Own the strategy, roadmap, and requirements for Digital Proving Grounds and Axion Sim, turning defense simulation and testing capabilities into repeatable products adopted by program offices and test teams.
What you'll do
- Conduct customer discovery and define product-market fit, roadmap, requirements, and success metrics.
- Shape workflows spanning simulation, HIL, LVC, and live testing, and set simulation priorities with engineering.
- Represent the product to customers and leadership; travel about 25% to customer sites, test ranges, and events.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of product management experience shipping complex technical products, including end-to-end ownership of a simulation, test, or engineering platform.
- Deep technical fluency in simulation, including fidelity, sensor models, determinism, distributed simulation at scale, and HIL.
- Strong customer research skills and a track record of turning custom deployments into repeatable products customers adopt and renew.
- Must be a U.S. Citizen and hold or be eligible for a U.S. Secret security clearance.
Nice to have
- Experience with modeling and simulation standards or government tools such as DIS, HLA, AFSIM, or NGTS.
- Experience planning or running LVC, range, or large-scale test events; multi-agent autonomy, DoD test and evaluation, or acquisition experience is also a plus.
Tools
Axion, Axion Sim, SIL, HIL, LVC, DIS, HLA, AFSIM
AI focus
Product work supports testing autonomous systems across simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, virtual, and live exercises.
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