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Our mission is to drive the future of national security by engineering scalable solutions that fuse technological innovation with human potential to transform how individuals and teams train, develop, and perform in mission-critical environments.\nOur culture is rooted in our core values, which have evolved over time and our employees have embraced: Integrity, Ingenuity, Excellence, Respect, Engagement, Teamwork. At our core, Aptima researches, develops, and innovates within an area that engineering firms largely ignore, the human component. To impact the world in meaningful ways, you must bring those innovations to light, and that is precisely what we do.\nHow You Will Make An Impact\nAs a Senior Systems Engineer supporting simulation-based training systems, you will help advance Aptima’s mission by designing, developing, integrating, and sustaining technical solutions within a government-owned modeling and simulation (M&S) environment. You will lead efforts to architect, configure, and validate systems that enable realistic, high-fidelity simulation for training and mission rehearsal.\nIn this senior role, you will guide prototyping, integration, and troubleshooting activities across a diverse set of modeling and simulation tools, frameworks, and simulators. 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