Staff Field Solutions Engineer (Defense Simulation)

Location: On-site in Melbourne, Australia; regular support for activities in Melbourne is required, with international travel for customer engagements, demonstrations, exercises, and internal meetings.

Company

hirify.global develops AI-enabled mission systems and advanced simulation and synthetic environment capabilities for defense customers.

What you will do

• Serve as a customer-facing technical expert for simulation, synthetic environment, and AI-enabled mission system capabilities.
• Support customer discovery, technical briefings, demonstrations, technical interchange meetings, RFIs, RFPs, proposals, white papers, and capture activities.
• Translate mission needs, training objectives, test requirements, CONOPs, and integration considerations into feasible solution concepts.
• Explain image generation systems, platform-in-a-box systems, threat models, constructive entities, sensor simulation, scenario generation, and LVC architectures.
• Partner with Business Development, Capture, Product, Engineering, Customer Engagement, Program, and technical teams to communicate customer requirements, risks, roadmap gaps, and field feedback.
• Create technical sales assets and maintain accurate representation of current capabilities, limitations, roadmap timing, and integration considerations.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in modeling and simulation, training systems, test and evaluation, image generation systems, synthetic environments, defense software, aerospace systems, solutions engineering, systems engineering, field applications engineering, technical sales, or related customer-facing technical roles.
• Hands-on experience with advanced defense simulation, training, or test environments and related synthetic battlespace ecosystems.
• Practical experience with image generation systems, platform-in-a-box systems, synthetic environments, threat models, constructive entities, sensor simulation, scenario generation, or LVC environments.
• Ability to translate customer requirements and technical constraints into solution concepts, requirements, demonstrations, and product feedback.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for technical, operational, commercial, and leadership audiences.
• Professional fluency in English and ability to work from or regularly support activities in Melbourne, Australia.

Nice to have

• Experience with Australian Defence Force, Australian defense industry, government, aerospace, training, simulation, or national security stakeholders.
• Experience with AI-enabled synthetic agents, computer-generated forces, adversary behavior models, automated scenario generation, or AI-driven entity behavior.
• Real-world autonomy experience involving autonomous aircraft, unmanned systems, robotics, AI-enabled mission systems, or autonomy software.
• Familiarity with DIS/HLA, simulation interoperability, test infrastructure, training range integration, distributed simulation, Python, C++, Linux, APIs, SDKs, or simulation tooling.

Culture & Benefits

• Cross-functional collaboration with Business Development, Product, Engineering, Customer Engagement, Program, technical SMEs, and regional partners.
• International customer engagements across Australia, the Indo-Pacific, AUKUS, and allied defense markets.
• International travel for customer engagements, demonstrations, exercises, and internal meetings.
• Offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check.