Simulation DevOps Engineer III

Eras of humanity can often be defined by a dominant transportation mode - horse drawn chariots, ocean going boats, or aircraft. These were spurred by a small group of people rigorously focused on building technology to achieve faster access to more of the world.  We seek to usher in a new era of humanity defined by universal access to the whole globe free of borders and the presence of a routine way from space to Earth. To do this, we are building highly maneuverable re-entry vehicles that can loiter in orbit before precision landing back on Earth.

About the Role

As a DevOps Engineer at Inversion, you will develop and manage the infrastructure that supports our flat-sat, simulation, and test environments. You’ll be responsible for enabling fast, repeatable development and deployment workflows across the engineering stack—ensuring simulation, autonomy, avionics, and software systems can be continuously validated in realistic conditions.

• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines for simulation and flight software artifacts
• Provision and support containerized, distributed test environments for SITL and HITL
• Integrate with flat-sat and bench-level systems for test orchestration and automation
• Develop internal tooling to run, monitor, and track simulation jobs and mission scenarios
• Support telemetry capture, structured result logging, and artifact storage for downstream analysis
• Manage secure remote access, environment configuration, and system-level observability (logging, metrics, uptime)
• Collaborate closely with simulation, autonomy, and flight software teams to improve iteration speed and system reliability

• Typically, 6+ years of experience in DevOps, infrastructure, or tooling for engineering teams
• Strong experience in CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI) and containerization (Docker, Docker Compose)
• Proficiency with scripting tools such as Python, Bash, and Make
• Experience with Linux environments and infrastructure-as-code best practices
• Understanding of test orchestration, automation, and result artifact pipelines

• Experience supporting hardware-in-the-loop, robotics, or embedded testbeds
• Familiarity with real-time compute platforms (NI, Speedgoat, dSPACE) or Linux-based RT systems
• Exposure to cloud-based or distributed simulation infrastructure
• Experience with system observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)
• Prior work with test result indexing, tagging, or search tooling to aid debugging and traceability

Our office headquarters is located in Playa Vista, CA. This position requires in office presence.

The California annual base salary for this role is currently $125,000 - $142,000, Pay Grades are determined by role, level, location, and alignment with market data.  Individual pay will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: interviews and an assessment of several factors that are unique to each candidate, job-related skills, relevant education and experience, certifications, abilities of the candidate and internal equity.