JSE Architect and Project Lead

Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, education, skills, and experience as well as market demands. These factors impact the salary/wage offered.

Benefits:
Flight Safety offers a competitive total rewards package, which includes vacation, sick leave, a 401k match, healthcare coverage and a broad range of other benefits.

Flight Safety International is the world's premier professional aviation training company and supplier of flight simulators, visual systems and displays to commercial, government and military organizations. The company provides training for pilots, technicians and other aviation professionals from 167 countries and independent territories. Flight Safety operates the world's largest fleet of advanced full‑flight simulators and award‑winning maintenance training at Learning Centers and training locations in the United States, Canada, France and the United Kingdom.

Flight Safety Defense Corporation is gearing to become a recognized architect and operator of complex synthetic environments in support of the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy. The JSE Architect and Project Lead serves as the technical foundation for Joint Simulation Environment (JSE) technical management, owning the FSI Defense reference architecture, compliance baseline, and simulation engineering approach across all JSE and Simulator Common Architecture Requirements and Standards (SCARS) pursuits and delivery.

This is a senior individual contributor and team lead role that directly shapes Flight Safety's technical identity in the JSE/SCARS ecosystem.

• The JSE Architect and Project Lead owns and maintains the Flight Safety JSE/SCARS Reference Architecture, translating complex government standards and technical documentation into actionable internal requirements and design patterns.
• Interpreting SCARS and JSE architectures, standards, and documentation and maintaining compliance checklists and the FSI technical baseline across all relevant bids and programs.
• Leading architecture reviews for all JSE/SCARS‑relevant activities, including authoring technical volumes, supporting oral presentations, and shaping customer solutions.
• Driving the alignment of Flight Safety's simulator, visual system, and training service offerings to JSE/SCARS‑ready product and integration standards.
• Directing research, engineering, and integration activities to design and implement SCARS‑compliant upgrades and JSE‑ready components, including HLA/DIS/TENA gateways, Common Database pipelines, and containerized host packages.
• Responsible for achieving and demonstrating verified integration of Flight Safety Weapon System Trainers with the JSE via the Global Reusable Interface Domain network protocol, including full compliance with the Government Simulation Interface Interface Control Document and execution of the GSI harness suite of service active tests.
• Overseeing Model Based Systems Engineering models and digital twin strategies relevant to JSE/SCARS, and implementing Dev Sec Ops  pipelines for simulator software and environment content.
• Coordinating with corporate IT and cybersecurity resources to address SCARS‑scale security requirements, apply the SCARS Common Security Controls Standard, and support Authority to Operate compliance for JSE‑connected training devices.
• Establishing and managing the internal JSE/SCARS integration lab—both virtual and classified, as required—and building key customer and prime contractor relationships within the JSE/SCARS ecosystem.
• Travel to government test events is anticipated throughout the year.

• Bachelor's degree in systems engineering, aerospace engineering,…