Lead Simulator Development Engineer

About the team

Our disruptive Motion Generator technology delivers class-leading performance in latency, bandwidth and fidelity—helping the world’s top automotive and motorsport brands bring vehicles to life in a simulator like never before. With customers including Ferrari F1 and other industry leaders, we’re scaling fast.

We’re now hiring a Lead Simulator Development Engineer—a critical role in the succession plan for our Head of Driving Simulation. This is an opportunity to take ownership of the technical evolution of our simulator platform and play a leading role in a growing, high-performance engineering team.

About the role

We are looking to fill a controls engineering role which will cover the following:

• Lead the development and deployment of control systems for Dynisma’s Motion Generators and simulator platforms
• Drive technical direction across simulation architecture, system integration, and control software
• Build and execute full-system simulations to evaluate performance trade-offs and innovations
• Integrate and test new features and third-party components, hardware and software, into our simulators
• Oversee tuning and validation of our simulators, ensuring world-class driver immersion and realism
• Support trackside test sessions and work closely with customers to optimise simulator performance

About you

• You’re a technically excellent engineer with leadership potential, looking to step up. You’ll bring:
• A degree in Engineering, Physics, Computer Science or a related field
• Strong foundations in control systems, physics, mathematics, and simulation
• Proficiency with tools such as MATLAB, Simulink and/or Dymola
• Experience deploying software and controls in Hardware-in-the-Loop (HiL) environments
• Practical knowledge of vehicle dynamics, motion systems or real-time simulation
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to collaborate, influence, and lead projects

Desirable

• Experience with motorsport or high-performance automotive environments
• Exposure to functional programming (e.g. MATLAB, Python, R)
• Previous mentoring, team-leading, or project ownership experience

Why join Dynisma?

Dynisma is growing rapidly and we are looking for outstanding people across all parts of the business to help build our future.

The culture is passionate, fast-paced, open and transparent. People work in a flat structure with hands-on application, innovation and experimentation constantly in mind.

Benefits include a competitive basic salary, pension, life insurance, private medical insurance, 25 days holiday, Cycle to work and electric car vehicle schemes.

If this sounds exciting and you want to join a seriously high performing team, determined to always deliver excellence, then please apply to recruitment@dynisma.com.

Dynisma is proud to be an equal opportunity employer

We are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace where everyone feels valued and respected.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and do not discriminate based on race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, or any other legally protected status.

If you require any special assistance or accommodations during the recruitment or interview process, please let us know. We are happy to support you to ensure a fair and comfortable experience.