Director - Digital Platforms

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Full Time Minnesota FLM St Paul, MN, US

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Join North Wind – Accelerating Hypersonic Innovation

At North Wind, we are advancing hypersonic technologies through cutting-edge research, system development, and flight testing. Our team drives innovation in high-speed aerodynamics, propulsion systems, and mission-critical components, supporting every phase of hypersonic programs - from R&D to flight testing, If you are passionate about pushing technological boundaries in a dynamic environment, we invite you to join us.

Director
- Digital Platforms

North Wind is seeking a visionary, technically elite Director, Digital Platforms to lead the architecture, development, and operational deployment of physics-informed digital twins, modeling and simulation (M&S) frameworks, and advanced digital engineering tool chains. This pivotal leadership role bridges high-fidelity computational physics, multi-spectral synthetic data generation, and enterprise digital ecosystem integration across complex physical test environments. The Director will oversee multi-disciplinary engineering teams responsible for creating high-confidence digital representations of complex test environments, high-speed range/facility operations, sensor arrays, and high-consequence physical systems.

Operating at the intersection of computational modeling, software engineering, and AI/ML, you will establish foundational simulation and digital engineering capabilities that accelerate test and evaluation (T&E) cycles, reduce physical testing iterations, and validate mission performance across defense and national security domains.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic, technical, and operational leadership over North Wind’s digital engineering, modeling and simulation, and digital twin platforms.
• You will direct the engineering lifecycle from fundamental computational model development to cloud-native, real-time digital twin deployments operating across Unclassified through Classified (TS/SCI) environments.
• This role requires a rare combination of deep physical systems intuition, mastery of computational simulation methodologies (including Monte Carlo methods and deterministic physics solvers), and demonstrated success leading multi-disciplinary teams of scientists and software engineers.
• Drive the integration of reduced-order modeling, physics-informed neural networks (PINNs), synthetic spectral/data libraries, and automated model calibration workflows against physical test article measurements and Data Acquisition (DAQ) systems.
• Partner closely with executive leadership, national laboratory stakeholders, DoD program offices, and the Director of Mission Applications to ensure digital platform capabilities seamlessly feed operational mission tools.

Key areas of responsibility include:

• Strategic technical leadership and governance of North Wind’s digital twin, digital engineering, and M&S technology roadmap.
• Architecture and deployment of high-fidelity physical systems modeling (e.g., multi-physics transport, fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, radiation/spectral transport, structural dynamics) for complex test facilities and test articles.
• Development and validation of synthetic data pipelines, Monte Carlo simulations, and physics-based surrogate models to augment physical test environments and sensor networks.
• Integration of AI/ML, computer vision, Generative AI, and physics-informed neural networks into core simulation and modeling workflows.
• Calibration and validation (V&V) methodologies comparing simulated platform output against physical sensor…