Staff Field Solutions Engineer

Responsibilities

• Serve as a customer-facing technical expert for simulation, synthetic environments, and AI-enabled mission systems.
• 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 solution concepts.
• Support defense simulation, training, test, and evaluation engagements across Australia, the Indo-Pacific, AUKUS, and allied markets.
• Explain image generation systems, platform-in-a-box systems, threat models, constructive entities, live-virtual-constructive architectures, sensor simulation, scenario generation, and AI-enabled synthetic agents.
• Partner with business development, capture, product, engineering, customer engagement, program, and technical teams.
• Help customers evaluate simulation and synthetic environments for training, mission rehearsal, test and evaluation, experimentation, force modernization, and AI/autonomy development.
• Develop capability briefs, demo scripts, solution templates, FAQs, white papers, technical explainers, and customer-specific briefings.
• Ensure customer-facing materials accurately represent capabilities, constraints, roadmap timing, and integration considerations.
• Build relationships with technical stakeholders, operational users, acquisition stakeholders, regional partners, and internal teams.
• Travel internationally for customer engagements, demonstrations, exercises, and internal meetings.

Required Qualifications

• 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, test environments, or comparable 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 live-virtual-constructive environments.
• Understanding of simulation applications in operational training, mission rehearsal, experimentation, test and evaluation, and capability development.
• Experience with customer-facing technical engagements, proposals, integration discussions, technical interchange meetings, or operational workshops.
• Ability to translate customer requirements and technical constraints into solution concepts, requirements, demonstrations, and product feedback.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally with business development, product, engineering, customer engagement, program, technical subject-matter experts, and regional partners.
• Ability to represent product capabilities, limitations, roadmap dependencies, and integration considerations accurately.
• Ability to support activities in Melbourne, Australia.
• Professional fluency in English.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting defense simulation, training, test, or experimentation customers in Australia, the Indo-Pacific, AUKUS, or allied international markets.
• Experience with the 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 LVC architectures, simulation interoperability, DIS/HLA, test infrastructure, training range integration, or distributed simulation environments.
• Hands-on experience with Python, C++, Linux, APIs, SDKs, simulation tooling, visualization systems, autonomy software, robotics middleware, or technical prototyping.
• Prior military, defense, aerospace, simulation, test, training, robotics, unmanned systems, or advanced software experience.
• Experience working across varied customer cultures, acquisition processes, operational concepts, and partner ecosystems.