Overview
SimSpace serves as an AI Proving Ground where organizations can confidently train, test, and outmaneuver adversaries in any environment. Trusted by allied governments, militaries, enterprises, and research institutions worldwide, SimSpace enables adaptive, AI-ready defenses that stay ahead of evolving threats. Founded in 2015 by experts from U.S. Cyber Command and MIT Lincoln Laboratory, the platform unifies training, testing, and validation in a realistic, live-fire simulation.
Why join SimSpace? We are focused on building our culture and atmosphere with a value system centered on humanity. Our philosophy of being Human Centered is embedded in how we work with internal teams, external clients, and their customers.
How Do We Work? We believe people are at the center of everything we do. SimSpace fosters a culture of continuous learning, curiosity, and professional growth through in-house training, learning platforms, cyber conferences, industry events, and time for skill development. Our people are empowered to shape their careers, and SimSpace consistently outperforms industry benchmarks in internal mobility, promotions, and total rewards growth.
Who Thrives Here? We are a team of innovators, protectors, and problem-solvers. We value diversity of thought and experience and are committed to building teams that reflect the communities we serve. Whether remote or office-based, you’ll collaborate with colleagues across departments and time zones to create a safer digital world.
Summary
As a Principal Product Manager at SimSpace, you will help define the future of cybersecurity and AI readiness. SimSpace provides advanced, realistic cyber ranges as an AI Proving Grounds for mission-critical organizations worldwide. This role is strategic in leading the development of our platform to enable organizations to train defenders, evaluate security controls, rehearse missions, test operational resilience, and validate emerging AI and agentic systems under realistic conditions.
AI systems and autonomous agents are rapidly becoming part of how organizations defend, operate, automate, and decide. Enterprises and government organizations need trusted environments to understand how these systems perform, where they fail, how they behave under adversarial pressure, and whether they can be safely deployed in mission-critical workflows. SimSpace provides realistic cyber environments, instrumentation, emulation, and validation workflows to support that transformation.
Responsibilities
* Define and drive platform capabilities that support AI training, testing, evaluation, and validation within realistic cyber environments.
* Partner across engineering, design, cybersecurity subject matter experts, go-to-market teams, and customers to ensure products are technically sound, commercially relevant, and measurable in value.
* Define and manage product strategy, roadmap, and alignment with business goals.
* Collaborate with engineering and design to develop high-quality core platform capabilities and supporting documentation.
* Establish and communicate functional and non-functional requirements including performance, reliability, scalability, security, and observability.
* Shape platform capabilities such as environment orchestration, scenario execution, evaluation workflows, telemetry, reporting, APIs, and automation.
* Partner with cybersecurity experts to reflect realistic attacks, threat actor behavior, adversary emulation, and controls validation needs.
* Ensure platform capabilities connect AI and agent validation to readiness, resilience, risk reduction, and mission outcomes.
Qualifications
* Minimum of 8 years of product management experience with a track record of delivering technical products, or equivalent experience in cybersecurity, AI infrastructure, platform engineering, simulation, security operations, or enterprise technology.
* Experience owning cyber products, platform products, infrastructure products, developer platforms, or AI/ML platforms.
* Strong technical fluency to work with senior engineering leaders on architecture, APIs, data flows, integrations, scalability, reliability, and security tradeoffs.
* Ability to define clear functional and non-functional requirements with customer value and success criteria.
* Strategic product judgment linking platform investments to customer value, market differentiation, and business outcomes.
* Working knowledge of cybersecurity concepts related to attacks, adversary behavior, threat emulation, detection, response, and security operations.
* Understanding of enterprise customer needs, stakeholder management, and product discovery in complex B2B environments.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills for translating complex concepts into clear strategy.
Preferred (Not Required)
* Experience with AI/ML infrastructure, autonomous agents, LLM applications, model evaluation, and AI development workflows.
* Experience with platform technologies such as cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, containers, APIs, and observability.
* Experience with cyber ranges, simulation environments, security operations, threat emulation, or controls validation.
* Familiarity with security tools and concepts (e.g., MITRE ATT&CK, SIEM, EDR).
* Experience building products serving both technical operators and executive decision-makers.
* Relevant certifications or equivalent experience are helpful but not required.
Compensation & Benefits
* Base salary range: $215,000 – $250,000, with annual performance-based bonuses.
* Health, dental, and vision benefits, plus savings plans; coverage starts on day one.
* Company-paid mental health resources and counseling.
* 401(k) with company match.
* Flexible time off and work-life balance options.
* Paid parental leave and equity stock options; performance-based grants.
* Referral rewards and wellness programs, including Peloton and LinkedIn Learning access.
* Other perks and benefits to support well-being and professional development.
Equal Opportunity & Legal
SimSpace is an Equal Opportunity Employer. In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States. We provide an inclusive environment and do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or any other protected status. We are committed to accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you need assistance due to a disability, please contact SimSpace does not accept unsolicited resumes from employment agencies. Actual compensation is based on a variety of factors and may vary from the stated range.
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