Director - Digital Platforms

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.

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.

• 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.

• 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 networks and high-speed data acquisition (DAQ) systems.
• Delivery of scalable, cloud-agnostic digital engineering tool chains across secure domains (IL2 through IL7, CUI, Secret, and Top Secret/SCI).
• Group leadership, technical mentoring, talent…